Smithsonian Institution The William Steinway Diary: 1861-1896
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| New York, Sept 29th 1873. | ||
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Sept 29th |
Cloudy close weather, arrange with John Blunt to drive our Stage, we take his boy into our employ & he buys the 4th house of us at Astoria. Albert & I have great difficulty to get small bills from the Banks, uptown in eveg |
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Sept 30th Tuesday. |
Cloudy weather, Financial Crisis seems to have reached all parts of the Country, it looks very badly The World contains Interview with Albert St. At L.K. in eve'g, & farm in afternoon | |
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Oct 1st Wed |
Nixon writes he can not pay his note. I feel very sad on acc. of the financial troubles and newspaper card of A. Weber, I order casemakers, bellymen & action makers to stop for 3 days. Uptown in evening Albert has Rheumatism in his hand. |
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Oct 2d Thursday. |
Financial situation growing worse for financial mercantile circles Bk. of Metropolis growing stronger every day. At L.K. in evening Bd. of trustee meeting, preside |
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Oct 3d friday. |
Fine day. The parties who bought our Astoria Houses cannot get their money from the Savings Banks, at farm in afternoon tell Stevens to stop handcars & men from excavating, after Saturday Oct 4/73, see Van Alst & order map for Lithographing on a smaller scale from him. Play cards in evening | |
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Oct 4th sat. |
Bk. of the Met. very strong, tell me that we can have all the Greenbacks we want. Reck arrives from Germany I feel much more encouraged. Arrange carefully with Albert & Kroeger how to reduce stock & draw in our horns Phyfe arrives with Alberts & Tretbars horse. Mrs. Julia Woehnert who has been on a visit to Tretbar departs for Buffalo, without my having seen her. I am at Germania Theatre in evening, we eat Oysters afterwards I have a terrible cold in my head |
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September
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