Monday, August 6, 2012

Tressy Leaves Ainsworth

Early September 1919 took Theresia Chester away from Ainsworth, as she became the wife of Robert Shaw:

Chester-Shaw marriage
(Click on image to enlarge)

The "Sept. 5" in that article is a typo — the wedding took place on September 3, 1919, and I gather it was in Chicago.

I notice, from another story on that page, that the area had a dry summer in 1919, as we've been having, and that the Gazette's editor felt free to use the word "drouth," which seems to nowadays to have fallen away in favor of "drought."

The Border Wireless had been released in September 1918; its story line managed to combine the Great War with the Wild West.


Sources:
Cook County, Illinois, Marriages Index.
♦ "Shaw-Chester." Hobart Gazette 5 Sept. 1919.

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