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> Just a few weeks after Parcel Post began, an Ohio couple named Jesse and Mathilda Beagle “mailed” their 8-month-old son James to his grandmother, who lived ju
by jvanderbot 1y ago
> Just a few weeks after Parcel Post began, an Ohio couple named Jesse and Mathilda Beagle “mailed” their 8-month-old son James to his grandmother, who lived just a few miles away in Batavia.
Is there more to this story? Presumably they didn't actually box up their infant and entrust it to a total stranger!?
- bryanrasmussen 1y agogiven that it was in Ohio, the grandmother lived in Batavia a few miles away, and this was in 1913 I feel pretty confident in saying they probably knew the person they were entrusting their infant to. the quoted article does not say they knew the carrier, but it does not explicitly say they did not. Reporting being what it generally is I think they imply that he was not known because they cannot explicitly say it without being called out for lying. on edit: changed undoubtedly to probably, more description.