[December 1919 calendar moon phase and tide table]
Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Jan. 1, 1919 [January 1, 1919] Wea [Weather] 
Stormy
Dark cloudy & intensely chilly with
incessant fine rain freezing to literally
everything it struck, loading every
branch & twig with hard, clear ice
at least 1/4 inch in thickness and
coating city streets & sidewalks with an
equally thick & constantly wetted frozen
surface exceedingly difficult & dangerous
to either walk on or motor over.
Because of these depressing conditions
most people remained in doors.
Not so C. [Caroline Brewster], however. She motored
from Ware Hall to lunch with
E.R.S [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & me, arriving at noon & 
departing at 3.30. We played the
Victrola for an hour or more while
she was here.
  Roland Thaxter came at 4.30
bringing some of his King apples
which are unlike any we grow at
Concord & altogether new to me.
He remained for above an hour.
No bird of any kind seen or heard.
Usual evening reading by E.R.S. to me
We are still in "David Copperfield."