Musical Houses

In this blog, it's but a day from the epoch-making to the trivial.

Since they left Ainsworth in 1915, William and Carrie Raschka had been renting a house on Sixth Street belonging to William Boldt (husband of Mary Sullivan — you couldn't swing a cat in Hobart without hitting a former Ainsworthite). In March 1917 they bought a home of their own: William Hollister's "eight-room modern brick residence on Lake Street." They would move in the following month.

Meanwhile, our old friend Howard Shearer, who had left Ainsworth in 1915 for the Green flat on Center Street, decided to buy his own home, too, and he chose William Boldt's house, soon to be vacated by the Raschkas.

Too bad I don't know exactly where either of these houses was.

…OK, this whole episode is even more trivial than I thought when I started writing, but these coincidences amuse me. (I'm easily amused.)


Source: Untitled social column. Hobart News 15 Mar. 1917; 12 Apr. 1917.