Professor Hamilton's Diary: Oct. 13, 1935

They visit a friend's new baby; auto deaths set a record high

On a quiet Sunday, the Hamiltons went to church, leaving the children at home with a babysitter from the college. While Mary Elizabeth napped that afternoon, they listened to music on the radio, and when she woke they went to visit some friends and “saw their baby, now two months old.”

A horrifying uptick in automobile deaths led the Reading Times to run a graphic article on its front page, along with a Herbert Block cartoon showing an accident victim. Paid subscribers can read on. Click below to upgrade to get the full experience of Bootleggers, Baptists and Everything in Between for just 16 cents a day.

The illustration from the Oct. 14 Reading Times was clipped from newspapers.com. The Times did not publish a Sunday edition.