Two Noras: January 6, 1914 and January 6, 2021

Nora Bauer: Saturday, January 3, 1914

Was snowing again today. Gertrude, Anna, [two of her sisters] and I went uptown tonight. It is trying to rain now. 

Nora Spitznogle: Sunday, January 3, 2021

I didn't leave the house and had a relaxing day of reading, napping, and baking soda bread. 

Since Grandma Nora has mentioned the cold weather a few times already, I was anxious to see how cold was cold to her. I was struggling to find reports of the weather in 1914.   Newspapers.com does not have copies of any of the Logansport Pharos-Tribune from 1914 and the weather history trackers only go back as far as 1930. I did find a new-to-me newspaper archive for the low-low price of $149 annually, which I happily subscribed to. Unfortunately, the copies of the papers are hard to read (at least the ones I've looked at, but I'm happy to have another resource. 

After all of that, the only mention of the weather I could find in the Logansport Pharos-Reporter (as it was named then) was "Generally fair tonight and Wednesday." 

I wonder what the club was that Mamie went to? I assume that Grandma Nora meant that she waited to do fancy work until Mamie got home. I have fond memories of Aunt Mamie. She died in 1984 at 94 years-old. I was 23 when she died. How I wish I would have asked her about Grandma Nora and childhood memories! 

Mamie Bauer

Today was to be the certification of Mr. Joe Biden's win of the presidential election in Congress. A mob protesting the election stormed the Capitol Building.  I don't have cable television - I used to be the anomaly, now more and more of my friends are "cutting the cord "  - so I've been glued to social media and network television. The whole thing is very unsettling.  

In 1914 President Woodrow Wilson was in his first term as President of the United States. He would take the country into the great World War later in the year.