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Not visible in this image is another article entitled, "Houses Should Now Be Numbered," explaining that "Engineer Krull" had been commissioned (by whom, I don't know) two years previously to draw up plans for street numbering in Hobart, in anticipation of free mail delivery. "Get busy and number your houses and business place," urged the Gazette, and as we see above, the streetcar office was the first to heed the call. (This Engineer Billy Krull was, I believe, 28-year-old William Krull, who, when last seen, was dancing with Myrtle Wild. The 1920 Census shows Billy and Myrtle, now married, with an infant son.)
In other news, Calvin C. Shearer and John Killigrew are becoming more prominent. And from the heights of his estate on Indian Ridge, John Dorman is selling a "good as new" base burner. I did not even know what a base burner was, so I had to go looking on the internet; I found out that it's an elegant, parlor-type heating stove with some minor cooking capacity, and apparently you can buy an antique one today if you've got a lot of money.
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