A New Fire Truck for Christmas

You may remember an earlier post that included a of photo of Fred Rose, Sr. and what looked like a very new American LaFrance fire truck. Now we have a story about the arrival of that fire truck, like an early present for Christmas 1920:


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From the Hobart News of 23 Dec. 1920.

Considering all the greenery in that first photo in my earlier post, I suppose it could not have been taken before the spring of 1921.

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A few weeks later, Fred reported to the town board that a telephone had been installed in the fire engine house. Its number: 0. ("Town Board Doings," Hobart Gazette 14 Jan. 1921.)