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The Ainsworth (former) saloon and Wollenberg family residence, in the summer of 1918. Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.
In September 1918 the Wollenbergs evidently decided they'd had enough of Indiana. It had already put them out of the saloon business and then arrested one of them on a liquor violation.
Fortunately they had their coal business to fall back on, and William Jr. had been developing the Chicago side of that. So the Wollenberg family left Ainsworth and settled in at 11405 Prairie Avenue, in southern Chicago.
Our old friends Shearer & Emery bought out the Ainsworth coal operation. But for the moment, anyway, the Wollenbergs retained ownership of the former saloon building, in the hope of renting it out for some non-alcoholic purpose.
Sources:
♦ "Additional Local News." Hobart Gazette 20 Sept. 1918.
♦ "Local Drifts." Hobart Gazette 20 Sept. 1918.
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