You are getting another old post today. Our family will not only be celebrating Thanksgiving Day, but our daughter’s birthday, so I am preoccupied. Back in 2021, I wrote the attached post about a couple who were married on November 28th. This year, since that couple was married in 1894, they would be celebrating their 130th wedding anniversary.
We have a son-in-law who lives in Minnesota who has a landscaping business. Because he cannot do much landscaping during the Minnesota winters, his business turns its attention to snow removal. This attached story illustrates another type of similar business…the coal and ice business. The story about Martin Hollman that is once again highlighted today is one in which he eventually became a man who operated a coal and ice business in St. Louis. During the winter months, he would have been delivering coal to local homes that had coal-burning furnaces. Then, during the hot summer months when no one would require coal, he would turn his business into one that delivered ice for their “ice boxes”. I located this link which contains photos of an old “ice and fuel” business that once operated in St. Louis.
https://stlouispatina.com/merchants-ice-and-fuel-company-plant-lewis-place/
Also, at about the time when the Hollmann’s moved to St. Louis, a strike took place involving ice and coal workers in St. Louis.
Another aspect of the story below is the fact that in days gone by, but not so much today, Lutheran pastors would not officiate marriage ceremonies during the confessional seasons of Lent and Advent. This year is another one of those in which November 28th comes a few days before the beginning of the Advent season, which begins this Sunday. And that is when the Hollmann’s got married.
One more thing. On this Thanksgiving Day, perhaps you might want to read or re-read this old post that I wrote several years ago which compared the arrival of the Pilgrims to that of the Stephanites in 1839. It is found by clicking the link below. I have already re-published this one several times in the past.
I wish all our readers a very Blessed Thanksgiving Day.