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I can't identify this "Mrs. O'Leary" who is promising to direct the upcoming play; the 1930 census shows a 64-year-old Margaret O'Leary living on the Sunderman farm in Ross Township, but she is listed as single. As for the play itself, though I can't find its text, other selections from its its author's body of work give you some notion of its tone.
The February 4 meeting felt the effect of the weather on the unpaved roads.
I don't know exactly what that reference to "Dinah and Sambo" means, but I fear the worst, and it may have involved blackface.
(Some sad news in this week's "Births" column about the former Carrie Zobjeck.)
Sources:
♦ 1930 Census.
♦ "Ainsworth Community Meeting." Hobart Gazette 11 Feb. 1921.
♦ "Ainsworth Community Meeting." Hobart News 10 Feb. 1921.
♦ "Births." Hobart News 3 Feb. 1921; 10 Feb. 1921.
♦ "Community Meeting at Ainsworth, Friday Evening, Feb. 4." Hobart News 3 Feb. 1921.
♦ "Local and Personal." Hobart News 3 Feb. 1921.
♦ "Play at Ainsworth, Feb. 18." Hobart Gazette 4 Feb. 1921.
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I believe the Buchfuehrer baby was Roy Allen. He is buried in Mosier Cemetery in Valpo. The family also lost two other children that I know of before they reached adulthood, and a son at age 40. One sibling survives to this day. Happier news that year for the Carbines with little JI's birth-her nickname was "Babe", she was called that all her life.
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