I wonder if he meant a homemade binder to wrap around his lower abdomen to relieve back or intestinal pain from hernia or something. He’d not been feeling well for a while. And he worked like a fiend hauling wood, etc., so he might have strained something.
In 1936, at age 42 Marion Buck became the champion woodchopper in the state! I can find no evidence that she married but somehow she became Marion Davis.
I wonder if he meant a homemade binder to wrap around his lower abdomen to relieve back or intestinal pain from hernia or something. He’d not been feeling well for a while. And he worked like a fiend hauling wood, etc., so he might have strained something.
I think you're right.
Hmmm binder around the bowels - what a gift!
Marion married E. Lawrence Davis on Thanksgiving Day 1947. The Fitchburg Sentinel mentions she also became a world champion in woodchopping.
In 1936, at age 42 Marion Buck became the champion woodchopper in the state! I can find no evidence that she married but somehow she became Marion Davis.
On March 29,1917 Marion Buck starred in a play called "Just Like a Woman" at Mechanics Hall.
On December 18, 1912, Marion Buck gave a solo violin performance at Mechanics Hall in East Rindge.