Electricity!

I may eventually delete this post and include these documents in a larger entry about The Brown House.
There are a lot of papers and pictures to process.
For now, though, here is a bill from 1926 for an occasion that Mother clearly remembered. She was eight years old at the time.  Her comment must have been added to the envelope in the 1990s.
How typical that it is in pencil.  She would not have wanted to do anything irrevocable to the document.

Next question:  Why was this building always referred to as the Brown House?
Maybe what I should be looking for is documentation of its re-siding.

The caption on this picture is Grace's.

House on Naaman's Road built by Nils Kwick C 1920.

 
The house was brown shingled in 1947, but I'm sure that the siding was far from new then.

Yes, that's me.  Twelve days old.