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Hobart Gazette, March 30, 1923.
First question: where was "the Peddicord brick north of Cleveland avenue"? — near Illinois and Kelly Streets, apparently, but that doesn't narrow it down very much.
Second question: why did the Hobart Health Department think that neighborhood a better place for a smallpox patient than Lake Street? Less crowded, maybe?
George Maybaum was not one of the Ainsworth Maybaums, but we still hope he gets over his smallpox, don't we?[1]
At the bottom of that column, we find William H. Wood & Son (Raymond, I believe) selling used Fords at their dealership in the village of Deep River. I've mentioned that enterprise at least once — more than once, I thought, but I can't find any other reference. According to my notes, it went back at least to 1916, when the "Local Drifts" column of the November 24 Gazette said: "Wm. H. Wood, the Deepriver merchant, who is sales agent for the Ford auto, is building a garage 40 by 60 feet for storage of new cars and a repair shop." I have been told that this business was located about where the fire department station is now.
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[1] SPOILER ALERT! — he did, according to the 1930 Census. The neighbors' objections were settled by moving George "to a smallpox barracks in Cook county, Ill." ("Local Drifts," Hobart Gazette, April 6, 1923), where presumably he was nursed back to health.
2 comments:
I tried looking for answers to your questions by examining the Sanborn Fire Insurance maps of 1922 (links at https://libraries.indiana.edu/union-list-sanborn-maps). Kelly Street is not even shown, and it looks like Cleveland and Illinois streets were new since the 1910 Sanborn maps. So, my guess is that the Peddicord brick was close to the outskirts of town, and not close to anything else - except Illinois and Kelly streets! You probably already knew that Roscoe Peddicord was a lawyer living on Main St. He must have owned the place N. of Cleveland too.
I'm glad to hear George got over it!
Yes, that big house by the Dairy Queen is the only Peddicord brick I know of.
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