Happy Leap Day! Did you know that it used to be common practice for newspapers to run brief biographies of local bachelors leading up to Leap Day (aka Bachelor's Day in Ireland) every four years. The article below appears in the January 22, 1932 Star Herald News out of Norwalk.
Some of the bachelors featured that year from Wilton, Norwalk, and Ontario included: John Adams, Ed Barden, Oscar Bergman, Clayton and Joe Brieske, Christ and Clarence Buchholz, Erwin Buddy, "Chub" Clair, Frank Cline, Albert and Eddie Denter, Matt Donahoe, Bert Eckelberg, Fred Flock, Fred Garske, Jack Geoghagan, Bob Glander, Adolph Heilman, Merwyn Johnstone, "Butch" and Emil Kindt, Fred and Alfred Kisser, Steve Lyden, Clarence Meyer, Mike Pfuhl, Henry and Fred Rakeman, Otto Schendel, leRoy Schikorowsky, Fernie and Herbert Schindler, Leo Schindler, Walter Schuele, Harvey Sheldon, Eddie Steingraeber, Martin Tonn, Glen Tuttle, and Otto Walz.
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