Personal Journal Of Charles Augusta

September 16th 1929

It's so wonderful to finally have the terrible weight of surviving from paycheck to paycheck off my back. I think things are starting to turn around for me once in my life. I never really was an investor type, buying an' selling shares an' such on the stock market. For quite some time now I've been reading an' hearing left an' right how folk make a fortune right here in New York on the stock market, all them Wall Street trading people. It wasn't till' just last' week my good friend John did a bit of dabbling in it himself. An let me tell you, he made a killing an had made nearly 20 bucks by the morning' after. Now that's when I really started believing the rumors. So right this' morning' I comes over to his huge new apartment he's living...