In Muscatine on Wednesday, November 7, 1951, Dale wrote, “Worked 8 – 4:30. Pay day. Paid $42 groceries, $11.50 Sonner, $6 Unicorn, $8 lights, $19 Montgomery Ward, $2 Helzberg, $16.05 milk, $6 telephone. Bought Stan 2 flannel shirts. Took family to library at night. A little warmer today.”