Again with the Woodchucks!

As town and country celebrated the Christmas of 1919, John Dorman and his woodchuck meteorology were again making news.


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From the Hobart News of Dec. 25, 1919.


From the Hobart Gazette of Dec. 26, 1919.

The Dec. 25 News, above, included a little advertisement of the Mackey medical practice, of the kind that had appeared in both local papers many times over the years — unchanged, still, as if the elder Dr. Mackey had not passed on. I suppose amidst all the stress of grief and the work of taking over the whole practice himself, the young Dr. Mackey had overlooked this small matter … or maybe he just couldn't bring himself to make that final change.