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1821: Excerpt for the Logbook of the U.S. Schooner Shark LCDR M.C. Perry commanding: Winds still from the North and East. Lat. 37.18 Long. 39.20. On the Sick List 6.

1855: William Hackley, a 50-year-old married attorney, recorded in his diary: Rose at 5 and walked, returned home and bathed. At 8:30 a.m. barometer 29.60, thermometer 81, winds south 1, clouds 7. Read papers. Dined at Alexander Patterson’s. Finished volume one of Huc’s “Travels in China” and sent it over to James C. Clapp’s. 1896: May Johnson, 20-year-old single school teacher, recorded in her diary: Bright Sat. Dec. 26, 1896 I arose at 8 o’clock, Pearle and I got up, dressed, had breakfast and cleaned my upstairs, washed head, wrote two or three letters, had di...