A page from an autograph book belonging to Mary Zachko. "What write in your book? Where gentlemen look, and critics spy, Oh no not I! I'm shy, Good-bye. Just a classmate Corin Torsen LEHS 1927 My heart pants 4 U"

Standard certificate of death, Corin M C Torsen, Union Hospital, Lynn MA, 8 May 1926. Appendicitis acute, gangrenous ruptured, operation on May 5th.

This autograph page breaks my heart, signed by Corin Torsen, 1908-1926. she wrote a rhyming passage and completed the page with LEHS 1927, "Forget me not, a friend now & always, my heart pants 4 U" #Genealogy #LynnMA #LynnEnglishHighSchool

A black and white image of a Massachusetts Certificate of Death. Elsie M Dailey Holbrook, 32 years old, Lynn MA, date of death April 25 1916 due to Scarlet Fever.

A black and white image of a publich health cartoon. "How high is the wall in your town?" One side of the wall are wolves representing Scarlet Fever and other diseases. The other side of the wall are children playing outside. The wall is built from logs labeled as Education, Health Officers, Quarantine of the sick.

Autograph book page, with a note "Just a line to say I Love You" Signed by Ethel Holbrook, LEHS 1927" In the center is a drawing of a clothes line with garments shaped to spell out L O V E.

Autograph book page signed by Ethel Holbrook, b1909. Her mother, Elsie Dailey Holbrook, 1884-1916, suffered from Scarlet Fever. A public health cartoon showed the importance of building a high wall for protection. #Genealogy #LynnMA #LynnEnglishHighSchool

1930 USA census of Lynn MA. The Terrill family consisted of Fred, age 55, widowed, mail carrier, Virginia, age 19, single, bookkeeper, and Earl, age 28, divorced, a cook.

Autograph book page dated 1925, "In the parlor alone they sat heandshe, heavy footsteps on the stairs. In the parlor there they sat he--and--she. "Gin" Terrill Jan 26 1925

Autograph book page, 26 Jan 1925, Virginia "Gin" Terrill wrote a special note for Mary Zachko. By 1930 she was working as a bookkeeper in a shoe factory. Her widowed father, born in Pennsylvania, was a letter carrier. #Genealogy #LynnMA #LynnEnglishHighSchool

1920 USA census, Lynn MA, showing the Farina family, with the parents immigrants from Italy. 5 children, 3 girls 2 boys.

A page from a 1927 autograph book belonging to Mary Zachko. Her friend Yolands Farina, wrote "Life is but a game of cards, when you are in love it is hearts, when you are engaged it diamonds, when you are married it is clubs, when you are dead it is spades, yours truly Yolanda

In my grandmother's, Mary Zachko, authograph book, Yolanda Farina 1912-1938, wrote an amusing anecdote about life with the symbols from a deck of cards. In the 1920 census she was 8 years old with many siblings. Her father worked in the shoe industry. #LynnMA #Genealogy #LynnEnglishHighSchool