Pennsy Ticket, 1913

Miss Minnie Rossow got a reduced fare on the Pennsy line because she was under 18 — 16 years old, to be exact. It was April 1913 and she was commuting between Hobart and Gary to attend Gary Business College. If the train stopped to pick her up near her parents' home, close by the crossing of the tracks over (present-day) Wisconsin Street, that was very convenient. The streetcar would have been likewise convenient — I don't know why she preferred the Pennsy.


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Images courtesy of E.H.



This little note identifies the ticket (there is only one) and the examination questions we've already seen, although, as I've said, it doesn't make the chronology clear. There was no little leather billfold, by the way: these items were loose in the steamer trunk.