Dora:
"Business a.m. Making out order to S.R & Co. [Sears Roebuck & Co.] Baked bread. Mended, Ripped and Sewed pm. Wrote letters at night."
Dora's correspondence: Mrs. Leisemer
Dora's financial ledger indicates she purchased a "Robespierre collar" for a whopping $0.33 and Mission Society books and tracts for $0.16. You can see what a Robespierre collar looks like here.
$0.33 would be $7.67 in today's money.
Ray:
24 in the am. 36 in the pm. Weather: Cloudy.
"Pitched hay. Cut down a tree."
Also on the 10th Ray purchased: Stamps for $0.05, a Battery (who knew?) for $0.12, Socks for $0.39, A Razor Strop for $0.34 and I'm not sure how this differs from stamps, but also Postage for $0.08.
Cayla:
Awoke to rain drumming off the skylight above our bed. Went out to the office an hour away and caught up with phone calls on the way. Busy day at work. Home at 7:20 pm, but I did get to snuggle with Maurice before eating dinner and catching up with Tarek.
Family History Note: Ray and Dora's mother, Ellen (or Ella as she was commonly called) suffered from goiter and severe hypothyroidism. She also had congestive heart failure, probably due to the hypothyroidism causing her heart rate to go so low that she was pretty much confined to sitting in her chair. According to my mother and Uncle Bob, Ella never really moved out of that chair because she couldn't. Ella also suffered from seizures. I asked the neurologist that I work with today if it was more likely that she had an actual seizure disorder or if she could have had seizures due to hypoperfusion because her heart rate was so low (and yes, I know this won't interest anyone who is not in the medical community, sorry.). All of that to say that it is impossible to say without knowing more information, like if she had and aura or lightheadedness, etc. Its interesting to try to diagnose conditions that existed 100 years ago....
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