Professor Hamilton's Diary: June 28, 1935

He types his thesis; nursing mother banned from Capitol and other news

Professor Hamilton was again beavering away on his dissertation today, making a quick visit to the library to “look up some material.” I find it interesting that he is typing the document himself. Was this out of economy, or was it because he was revising as he went along? Incidentally, the Reading Times had a classified ad today for a used Underwood typewriter costing $17.50. That’s a fairly stiff $400 in today’s money. But then, these things were made of metal and built to last.

A woman was banished from the U.S. House visitors’ gallery in Washington for “naively nourishing her eight-month-old baby in the ancient and approved manner.” Paid subscribers can read about this poor woman and other tidbits of news of the day. Click below to upgrade.

The 1933 photograph of a Royal typewriter was accessed via Wikimedia Commons.