Abe Lincoln

May 28, 1931 - I went down to Florence's this morning and she finger-waved my hair.  Also cleaned out the storeroom above the kitchen.  I churned this afternoon.  It was rainy early this morning, but Martha got started anyway.
May 29, 1931 - Mother and I papered the pantry and the ceiling of the kitchen today.  And we were tired tonite!  The kitchen is in an awful mess.  We took the shelves down in the pantry and can't put them up until tomorrow.
May 30, 1931 - Memorial Day.  Ray didn't work today.  We went out to the cemetery early this morning.  Ray helped us put the shelves back up.  Uncle Max's were here this afternoon.  Dora, George, Meta, Lyle, Aunt Lena, Uncle Hans and Louis were here for supper.  Hilda stayed here all nite.  We four kids went to Wayne tonite and saw "Abraham Lincoln."  I stayed out to the farm with Florence.

Here's a somewhat embarrassing question.  In 1931, did Grandma and Grandma Anna and Uncle Ray live in the house I am most familiar with?  I ask because I am not sure what Grandma would call the pantry.  That cubbyhole on the back porch is the best I can come up with and I don't know that it would be called a pantry.

I copied below some information about the movie "Abraham Lincoln".  There are some tidbits in here that I will have to research a bit, just to satisfy my own curiosity.

     Abraham Lincoln, also released under the title D. W. Griffith's 'Abraham Lincoln', is a (1930) biographical film about American president Abraham Lincoln directed by D. W. Griffith. It stars Walter Huston as Lincoln and Una Merkel, in her second speaking role, as Ann Rutledge.

     The script was co-written by Stephen Vincent Benet, author of the Civil War prose poem "John Brown's Body". This was the first of only two sound films made by Griffith. The film was not a hit at the time, but in recent years it has come to be regarded as one of the definitive films on Lincoln.

     The first act of the film covers Lincoln's early life as a storekeeper and rail-splitter in New Salem and his early romance with Ann Rutledge, and his early years as a lawyer and his courtship and marriage to Mary Todd in Springfield. The majority of the film deals with Lincoln's presidency during the Civil War and culminates with Lee's surrender and Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theater.

     The film covers some little known aspects of Lincoln's early life, such as his romance with Ann Rutledge, his depression and feared suicidal tendencies after her death, and his unexplained breaking off of his engagement with Mary Todd (although the film surmises that this was due to unresolved feelings over Ann Rutledge and adds a dramatic scene where Lincoln stands Mary up on their scheduled wedding day, which never happened).

     While the early scenes of Lincoln's life are remarkably accurate, much of the later scenes contain historical inaccuracies. The famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, in addition to the historically accurate topic of the extension of slavery, have been turned into an argument about secession. Lincoln was famously an underdog for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1860; in the film it is suggested he is the sole nominee as a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. The outbreak of the War seems to be the North firing on Charleston from Fort Sumter, rather than the other way around. Also, early in hostilities, General Winfield Scott is depicted as being overconfident of a quick victory (and something of a buffoon), when in reality he was one of the voices in the minority claiming the war would be long, costly, and bloody. He would also have been taller than Lincoln at 6'5". Finally, in the climax of the film, Lincoln delivers a conflation of famous words from the Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural Address at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865 - just moments before being assassinated. This was Griffith's second portrayal of Lincoln's assassination, the first being in  "The Birth of a Nation."