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From the Hobart Gazette 1 July 1921.
"The young man had been hard at work all day Saturday previous and had been sick but about six hours," according to the News, which gave his condition the scary name of "gangrenous appendicitis."
But when Charles and Constance brought their son home on July 6, just a week and a half after his surgery, he was "reported in fine condition."
Sources:
♦ "Additional Local News." Hobart Gazette 8 July 1921.
♦ "Local and Personal." Hobart News 30 June 1921; 7 July 1921
♦ "Local Drifts." Hobart Gazette 1 July 1921.
3 comments:
interesting tidbit in that column: "a most splendid rain down to the taters." Would that mean down to the potatoes in the ground or down south of Hobart - along the roads always referred to as "Taters" or "Tates" since at least the 1970s?? The roads east were called "The Mists" and it still is quite foggy that way. Always wondered how Taters got its name though!
I thought it meant the potatoes (since the next remark is about farmers), but then I had never heard of any roads in Hobart being called the "Taters," or "The Mists," either! That's a new one on me.
It probably did mean potatoes! Maybe someone who does know how those old country roads got their nicknames will see this and explain. I grew up in Hobart and that's what we've always called them. It's pretty cool to think they might have been called that for a century or so!
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