Rev. and Mrs. Joseph McNeill were Presbyterian missionaries in the Church's West Africa Mission. Spanish Guinea is now Equatorial Guinea.
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The NY NH + H RR is the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, but I am not sure what the Short Line was. The parlor car was a class above regular coach class, probably the same as first class today. Boston's South Station is still in use today.
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Bill is planning his trip to Boston. He is willing to stay at the Statler Hotel (now the Boston Park Plaza), the Hotel Bellevue or the Parker House Hotel. He always stayed in the best hotels. (I recall his wife Hazel continued that tradition as we traveled with her through Denmark, Germany and Finland in 1970; she insisted on paying all the hotels for the family so she could get the quality she enjoyed.)
Here is one of the few times any family member used a nickname for Arnold — here "Arn" — though later in life he always went by "Arnie".
If Bill saw the Yankees plan the Washington Senators (featuring one of the greatest baseball players of all time, Joe DiMaggio), it certainly would have been in the original 1923 Yankee Stadium.
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Hazel writes with birthday updates and weather news:
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In a Special Delivery letter Bill writes with pride how well his business is doing and which of the salesmen cover what territory for the Ideal System Company. He plans his trip to Boston for a visit with Arnold and wants to stay at the Parker House, famous for having invented the Boston cream pie and Parker House rolls.
From this letter I now understand why Dolly has her mother's name — Dolly was born on Hazel's birthday and was christened Mary Hazel Nevis after her mother Mary Hazel (Wolfe) Nevis.
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Charlton Flats is in the Angeles National Forest, about a 25–30 mile drive from Glendale.
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Arnold writes home to his mother asking for assistance in buying upcoming birthday presents for his sister Dolly and his sister-in-law Pat. He will call his father, who is on a business trip to New York City, so they can arrange a visit in either Boston or in New York.
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Hazel enjoys her newly remodeled kitchen.
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Arnold has signed up for one of the tests of the National Board of Medical Examiners and this receipt shows he paid $20 for it.
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It is hard to imagine today that this card could be sent for just one cent.
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Arnold thanks his family for their birthday gifts to him. With some of his birthday money, he bought Men of Mathematics, 1937, by E. T. Bell, and a biography of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who was a 1906 Nobel prize winner as a Spanish scientist, pathologist, and histologist specializing in neuroanatomy and the central nervous system.
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Bill writes his son Arnold about his upcoming business trip
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Leonard writes Arnold with birthday greetings.
Len and Pat are in the middle of moving apartments.
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It appears that they got Arnold's letter of July 22 already the next day, the 23rd. That really is wonderful mail service. Seventy years later there is no improvement on that; rather a decline, I would say.
The enclosures Hazel mentions are missing. Hazel's kitchen remodeling job has begun but there are still some details to finish.
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Arnold is enjoying his work at the Providence Lying-In Hospital (later called the Women and Infants Hospital, now a rehabilitation and hospice center).
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