That may explain why her beloved pets received such newspaperĪs it had done for Frances Fink’s poodle, the Herald-Whigĭevoted four paragraphs to Mike’s life and personality. Old Lamplighter…” feature on the paper’s editorial page, was one of Fink’sīoarders. The head of a male boarder who had overlooked that gesture of etiquette and Was a humorous tale of him removing the hat from Mike was the focus of two newspaper articles. Personalities entertained the boarders in her home at 531 Jersey for three The two monkeys with apparently different With the more civil name of Mike, purchased from a Quincy pet store around the Had been “tenderly buried” in a friend’s garden.įrances Fink owned a second monkey, this one an African ringtail “toothless, deaf and blind,” the December 8, 1921, Quincy HeraldĪ four-paragraph obituary/tribute to her “constant companion,” noting that it She was rarely seen in town without herįrench poodle which she owned for twenty years. She was childless and enjoyed having pets, especially ones We also know that by 1936, Frances had been a widow for Pet monkey named Satan and had been making the news in Hollywood with her plansįor the final seance attempt to contact Harry’s spirit on Halloween. And, coincidentally, Harry Houdini’s widow, Bess, also had a Introduced in the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers film “Follow The Fleet” earlier in Irving Berlin was the composer of “Get Thee Behind Me, Satan,” Quincy at the Orpheum in 1936: “Bengal Tiger.” The tiger was named Satan, and
Title, in a song, or as a character name-two of these films were shown in Three movies that year had “Satan” either in the
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Serial “The Witch’s Tale” used “Satan” every week during the decade, being the Used in several songs, books, plays, and radio shows in the 1930s. Satan’s name had been “trending” at the time. Organizing various social organizations and events. Years in the Society pages of the Herald-Whig She laterīecame head of the Rebekah Lodge, and her name appeared several times over the Was chosen as the first president of the Eagles Auxiliary in 1927. She belonged to many fraternal and sororal organizations and In Quincy and had at least two other pets, both of whom, received newspaperĬoverage. Boniface Catholic School and Quincy Notre Dame. Satan certainly seems an unusual choice of name for a pet byįrances Fink, a woman of considerable social standing who had been educated at Or we might suspect that in aĬommunity dotted with churches there must have been some objection from localĬlergymen about the monkey’s netherworld-ish name. Years, because of a devilish personality.
Fink’s boarding house, where he had lived for eleven With a name like Satan, we could infer that he was removed for Not known how long he stayed with the firemen, how long he lived, nor the size Frances Fink inĪ fire truck to his new home in the basement of the central fire station. The monkey named Satan was removed from the home of Mrs. Three-paragraph article is the only known source of information for this odd The title of this article was one of the headlines in the October
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