When An Amateur Historian Has a Bad Day (Part 2)

At the museum this morning I was looking for more images for Downtown Hobart 1979 and came across this one:


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Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.

According to the caption, that smiling guy at center is Kenneth "Kip" Humes. So that must be the Kip who once had a gas station at 55 Center Street, right?

But wait — I thought his brother's nickname was "Kippy"!? From the Hobart Gazette of April 18, 1918:

Ellsworth Humes will leave today for Cincinnati, Ohio, where he will join advertising car No. 2 of the Hagenback-Wallace shows. This show will tour the New England states this summer. During his spare time, while taking a vacation the past couple of weeks, he has lettered several of the windows of the business houses about town. "Kippy" is pretty handy with the brush.

Maybe the editor of the Gazette was confused, too. It makes more sense to get "Kip" out of "Kenneth" than out of "Ellsworth."