Dec 19, 1919 -
     At sundown, the town is very quiet; it is the silence that comes from intense cold; the glow in the west is a cold brilliant yellow; it is a night when all homes seem haunted either red or yellow and glow in the cheerful light [1]
                                                                            Dec 26, 1919 –
     Today the snow is softened, the sky a wet cold gray, and telegraph wires seem heavier and sway in the air with irregular swinging jerks –
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                                                                            Jan 10, 1920 –
     The “January Spring” with its exciting afterglows and smoking chimneys and wide-roaming trains has come and gone and now the earth is shut in by a low dark sky; the trees heavily coated with ice stand like gigantic feathers and crackle in the wind – all horizons are an ominous dark gray -–