Evelyn's Birthday

From the Triebess scrapbook.


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Going by the 1920 Census, I believe July 19, 1920 was Evelyn's 17th birthday.

Evelyn's 14th

From the Triebess scrapbook.


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Ninety-three years ago today, at about this time, Evelyn Triebess was at a dinner party.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I just popped in to mark St. Patty's Day, or rather to let Evelyn Triebess do it for me, via her high-school scrapbook.


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(Still on break. Getting lots of sleep. It's great.)

Misery in Chicago

Evelyn Triebess was the only one in her family having a fun over the winter of 1920, as the "Local Drifts" column of the Hobart Gazette reported on March 19, 1920.

John C. [Julius] Triebess was out from Chicago Tuesday looking after some interests at his farm, south of Ainsworth. Mrs. Triebess, he said was in a hospital, recovering from an operation last week Wednesday for tumor, and his son is very poorly, having lost 30 pounds in weight since they moved to Chicago last fall. He has some heart trouble, and has to remain in bed most of the time.

Speaking of Raymond Triebess, Evelyn happened to preserve in her scrapbook the record of his transfer in 1917 from a Chicago school to the Ainsworth school.


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How Evelyn Spent Valentine's Day

From Evelyn Triebess' scrapbook of her senior year in Chicago's Parker High School, we have this account of her Valentine's Day party:


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The Pollyanna Girls

In September 1919, Evelyn Triebess was living in Chicago when she and some high-school classmates formed a club called the "Pollyanna Girls."



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Pollyanna had been published in book form in 1913. I expect Evelyn and her friends had read it when they were about the same age as the title character (11 years old), and were quite sincere in their admiration of an outlook on life that nowadays we tend to think of as unrealistic if not slightly annoying.

"I'm Always Chasing Rainbows," from Oh Look! (1918 recording).

"Our Farm"

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"Our farm" was the Triebess farm. This photo comes from a little scrapbook put together by Evelyn Triebess after the family returned to Chicago, recording the events of her last year in high school. That scrapbook is now at the Hobart Historical Society museum.





So Evelyn spelled it "Triebes," but if you think I'm going to go back through this blog and correct every spelling of "Triebess," you overestimate me.

Unfortunately the scrapbook contains almost nothing relating directly to Ainsworth, aside from the photo of "our farm," which tells us very little — no date, and the young woman in the photo is not even identified, though I would guess it's Evelyn herself. I don't know where the orchard would have been. The Triebess land roughly coincides with John Wood Elementary School and the Christian Assembly church on the north side of 73rd, and, on the south side, Calumet Orthopedics and Prosthetics, and part of Veterans Memorial Park.