13 October 1920: Lady Mistakes Fire Box for Post Box

On this day in 1920, the Athens Banner ran this story of mistaken boxes on the front page:

Learn More:

• Athens Banner, October 1920 - May 1921 on Microfilm in the Heritage collection.
• Athens Historic Newspaper Archive collection in the Digital Library of Georgia.
• 1920-1921 Athens City Directory on Microfilm in the Heritage collection.
• History of the Athens Fire Department on the Athens-Clarke County Government website.
• I Can't Believe I Just Did That by David Allyn in the general collection.
• Master the Postal Exams by John Gosney and Dawn Rosenberg McKay in the general collection.
• McGraw-Hill's Firefighter Exams by Ronald R. Spadafora in the general collection.
• Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917-1961, edited by Carlos Baker in the biography collection.
• The Expressmen by David Nevin the general collection.
• A Day in the Life of a Firefighter by Linda Hayward in the children's collection.
• War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars, edited by Andrew Carroll in the general collection.
• Going Postal by Terry Pratchett in the CD collection.
• Letters from Father Christmas by J. R. R. Tolkien in the children's collection.
• Mailman: A Novel by J. Robert Lennon in the fiction collection.
• So Others Might Live: The FDNY from 1700 to the Present by Terry Golway in the general collection.
• We Need Mail Carriers by Lola M. Schaefer in the children's collection.
• Curious George at the Fire Station by Margaret Rey in the picture book collection.
• Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation, edited by Ellen F. Fitzpatrick in the general collection.
• Working Fire: The Making of an Accidental Fireman by Zac Unger in the general collection.
• Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman, edited by Michelle Feynman in the general collection.
• Images of old fire boxes.