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[[underlined]] To Mother, August 12, 1924: [[/underlined]] Julie Rippel (Ted VanWagenen's brother-in-law) may have a Phi Beta Kappa key but it seems to me he did a rather dumb thing to marry on $25.00 as week. I think a fellow should be making at least $50.00 a week before getting married. .... Del, Jim and I ate at the "Owl" this evening and the dinner was fine. We had chicken a la king, potatoes, corn, tomatoes, bread, milk, and pie a la mode for sixty five cents.

[[underlined]] To Willie, August 5, 1924: [[/underlined]] It is really funny! It doesn't seem long ago at all that we were at Shoals. I can recall everything that happened there so vividly. But those first couple of weeks here seem like perfect ages ago, and that night of our ride to Utica together seems years ago to me. I must just have sunk out of all sight those first days down here. Something like this:
[[image: hand-drawn, labelled, line chart illustrating above-mentioned passage of time, Time scale on X-axis, Y-axis unlabeled]]

I don't quite know what the vertical scale should be. .... Did I tell you about the big turbo-generator they have just built for the Detroit Edison Company (power company)? It has a capacity of 80,000 horsepower approximately. That means that in twenty-four hours it can do the work of 5,400,000 men, or more than the entire slave population before the Civil War. It is hard to grasp! ..... I shall never forget that one Sunset Service I attended (at Star Island). You remember it -- in 1923. And remember how Miss Rodey, the Berkeley girl, sang "Good-by Sweet Day." And just as Dr. Soares pronounced the benediction, the sun slipped down behind the mountains. To me, that was almost as beautiful as Candle Light, if such a thing be possible. ..... Memorized all the stations from Syracuse to Schenectady on the way back. I guess there are about twenty-five of them. *

**Note: I still remember them; they are: East Syracuse, Minoa, Chittenango, Canastota, Wampsville, Oneida, Verona, Rome, Oriskany, Whitesboro, Utica, North Frankfort, North Ilion, Herkimer, Little Falls, East Creek, St. Johnsville ^[[, Ft. Plain.]] Palatine Bridge, Sprakers, ^[[Yosts,]] Fonda, Ft.Johnson, Amsterdam, Hoffmans, Schenectady.