Kansas City, Here We Come

… or there we went, anyway. The Chesters are just back from yet another road trip. This was one of the lesser voyages of these seasoned travelers, at a little more than 1,000 miles, round-trip — but that's calculated by modern highways; the roads of 1920 may well have made the distance actually longer, as well as seemingly longer.


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"Local Drifts," Hobart Gazette, Sept. 24, 1920.

Also, a little item confirms that I had indeed found the right people in the 1920 census: Burgess and Helen Wells have moved to Colorado.

Another item, about the Nickel Plate's Main Street crossing, has forced me to get edumacated — I did not know what the heck a "wig-wag safety signal" was, so I had to go look it up.

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Speaking of road trips — the "Local and Personal" column of the Hobart News (Sept. 23, 1920) included this item: "A two-ton truck belonging to Thos. Crisman of Deep River was stolen last Saturday night and was seen to pass through Hobart that night about midnight."