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The Journals of Emma Troutman Boylan

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315 W. Ponce de Leon Ave., Suite 750
Decatur, GA 30030

*NOTE*

#1	Oct 1927	The First Month:Setting the Stage
#2	Nov 1927	Second Month of Emma's Journal
#3	Dec 1927	The End of the first year
#4	Jan 1928	Bringing in the New Year with a revival, a new grandchild, and a butchered hog
#5	Feb 1928	Theater, the dentist, and a death in the family
#6	Mar 1928	Quilts, gum, and small-town politics
#7	Apr 1928	Easter, light bulbs, and planting the garden
#8	May 1928	May baskets, 8th grade graduation, and more sewing and gardening.
#9	Jun 1928	Plants and fish in the pond, ice cream, and remembrance of a loss
#10	July 1928	Picking and canning, a Buick, and the Baptist Assembly
#11	Aug 1928	Road trips, summer flowers, a cyclone, and succotash
#12	Sept 1928	Back to School, family visite, and Harvest Home
#13	Oct1928	Train trip to Joplin,presidential xmpaigns, and aa squirrel for dinner
#14	Nov 1928	Voting for president, Armistice Day, and card games
#15	Dec 1928	Telegrams, Ruth, Christmas, and Bambi
#16	Jan 1929	A sooty kitchen, doughnuts, and the Methodist Episcopal hymnal
#17	Feb 1929	Valentine card, Sunday School and Marcelled Hair
#18	Mar 1929	Glee Club, chiropractic, and permanents
#19	Apr 1929	Strawberries, whooping cough, stomach troubles, and a cow.
#20	May 1929	Interior Decorating, Wildflowers, and a Fishing Trip
#21	June 1929	A big trip to Chicago for Katharine's Graduation, Gerald buys a car & Flower Mission Day
#22	July 1929	Safe and Sane Fourth, darning socks, and a trip to Shenandoah
#23	Aug 1929	Road trip to SD, Emma's 50th, big tomatoes, & a highway coming through.
#24	Sept 1929	Katharine heads off to teach, a scandal at the school board, and ground cherries
#25	Oct 1929	Aunt Kate, carillon bells, and the Great Depression on the horizon
#26	Nov 1929	Pheasant, making a smock, church meetings, and a bonus poem
#27	Dec 1929	A quiet month. Neighbors, family, sewing, and Ruth's 16th birthday.

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Road trips, summer flowers, a cyclone, and succotash

A sooty kitchen, doughnuts, and the Methodist Episcopal hymnal

Glee Club, chiropractic, and permanents

Strawberries, whooping cough, stomach troubles, and a cow.

A big trip to Chicago for Katharine's Graduation, Gerald buys a car & Flower Mission Day

Safe and Sane Fourth, darning socks, and a trip to Shenandoah

Road trip to SD, Emma's 50th, big tomatoes, & a highway coming through.

Katharine heads off to teach, a scandal at the school board, and ground cherries

Aunt Kate, carillon bells, and the Great Depression on the horizon

Pheasant, making a smock, church meetings, and a bonus poem

A quiet month. Neighbors, family, sewing, and Ruth's 16th birthday.