Monday, June 25, 2012

Ad Hoc Ambulance

A frightening accident: overturned car, broken ribs, crushed chest, cuts and bruises — and it's a civilian volunteer who takes the injured to town for treatment in his ordinary automobile.

Accident, Gazette, 7-18-1919
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From the Hobart Gazette of 18 July 1919.


The "corner south of Ainsworth" would be, I suppose, the intersection of the Lincoln Highway and present-day State Road 51.

Carl Dorman was part-owner of the Fifth Avenue garage in Gary, or at least he had been before he joined the army in 1917 (see "Carl Dorman Joins Army," Hobart Gazette 26 Oct. 1917).

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