{"id":1482,"date":"2026-10-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2026-10-23T04:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T08:48:21","slug":"2026-week-42-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/2026-week-42-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Week 42 Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/RogerGravestone-wordpress.jpg\" alt=\"James Roger Grave\" class=\"wp-image-1440\" style=\"box-shadow:var(--wp--preset--shadow--natural)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/RogerGravestone-wordpress.jpg 500w, https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/RogerGravestone-wordpress-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">James Roger Grave<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">James Roger Diary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">October 12<sup>th<\/sup> 1908 (Monday)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dull and cool wind west to N.W. sunny during the day.&nbsp; David on roads down town.&nbsp; I finished the Gordon lot today.&nbsp; Hamish went with milkman in morning. There was report circulated today that Mr. John Crow of East Jaffrey had been shot by a Finn from (?) he was collecting an account (not true). Mrs. Parker very ill last night but better today.&nbsp; John Preston shutting off water and fixing up house for winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">October 13<sup>th<\/sup> 1908 (Tuesday)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hard frost 12 degrees frost. Ice on hen\u2019s dishes fine bright sunny day wind west to S.W.&nbsp; Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus at 4am this morning.&nbsp; David on roads down town.&nbsp; I picked 2 fowls, watered Gordon lot and rested up.&nbsp; Picked grapes at Preston dump.&nbsp; Mrs. Parker rather better today.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1gp7-71s7mfslLG3K5BpRPBBKFz5rOOEE\/edit#bookmark=id.2s8eyo1\">May<\/a> got letter from Jamie Mair and we got pc from Hamish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">October 14<sup>th<\/sup> 1908 (Wednesday)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frosty fair and warm sun wind west.&nbsp; David on roads down town.&nbsp; Mother and I fixed the Hall for dance tonight.&nbsp; John Preston went away to Boston this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">October 15<sup>th<\/sup> 1908 (Thursday)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fair and warm during day. David on roads downtown warm and dusty work.&nbsp; The dance last night was a failure financially 7<sup>50<\/sup> in the hole.&nbsp; Attendance was sparse.&nbsp; Mother and I swept Hall and put in the settees.&nbsp; I lifted carrots and beets in forenoon and partly sodded Gordon\u2019s lot.&nbsp; Mrs. Tabraham called and paid lot. A Mr. Tenny from Illinois came to Huckins.&nbsp; He wants to find out about his ancestors who lived here but went west in 1836.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">October 16<sup>th<\/sup> 1908 (Friday)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fair and warm wind variable and chilly west.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1gp7-71s7mfslLG3K5BpRPBBKFz5rOOEE\/edit#bookmark=id.30j0zll\">David<\/a> on roads down town.&nbsp; I cut sods and put them on Gordon\u2019s lot.&nbsp; Got letter from Hamish. &nbsp; Miss Barr &amp; Mrs. Brooks paid their lots today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">October 17<sup>th<\/sup> 1908 (Saturday)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fair and warm, wind variable.&nbsp; David on roads down town.&nbsp; I fixed sods and watered Gordon lot. Raked leaves in the forenoon, and filled Hall lamps for the expected Finn dance tonight.&nbsp; The Finn\u2019s wife at Gilson Place died yesterday morning of pneumonia. Funeral at Smithville tomorrow.&nbsp; Got letters from Alice &amp; May from Berkley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">October 18<sup>th<\/sup> 1908 (Sunday)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Very warm day. Mr. Peacock preached from the text \u201cThe fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom\u201d.&nbsp; S.S. after C.E. at 7<sup>00<\/sup> pm Mr. Peacock led and gave report of Mason S.S. convention topic Giving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Roger diary entries for week 42, 1908<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-james-roger-diary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/NIHS-Building.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}