Professor Hamilton's Diary: May 14, 1935

A mortgage loan, sharing 'Plain Truth', and a dead battery

After weeks of scanty diary entries, Professor Hamilton had a lot to say today. He got an offer for a new mortage under a New Deal agency, shared an early nineteenth century essay collection with a colleague and suffered through another car repair.

“Our battery went dead today and I had to call service man for us,” he wrote.

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