“My name is Robert Adams, representing the George Close Co., manufacturing confectioner, of Cambridge, Mass.” Said a well groomed upstanding young fellow, introducing himself in the business office of The Independent the other morning.
A moment later another fine looking young fellow came in and said: “I am Robert Adams of of Ashbury Park, N.J. I am an engineer interested in certain developments on your North Carolina Coast.
It all sounded like a joke, but it wasn’t. Here were two young men from different parts of the country representing entirely different enterprises, but each having the same name and both of them dropping into the office of this newspaper at the same time.
Robert Adams of Cambridge, Mass., and Robert Adams of Asbury Park, N.J., had never heard of each other before, but they met for the first time, exchanged a hearty handshake and got a lively kick out of the coincidence.
From page 2 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Oct. 29, 1926
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