Really enjoy this newspaper snippet from the Massena Observer, September 28, 1933. This article mentions the visits of the Hale's and Tilden's in Massena, visiting Agnes Gibbs, after a trip to Ontario to visit other relatives.
Mary Merritt would have been 5 years old at the time.
This article came from a great website for searching old newspaper articles, http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/
If you have relatives that lived in upstate New York, in particular, this would be a good place to search. A link to the entire page of this paper that I snipped the article from can be found here:
http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn84031311/1933-09-28/ed-1/seq-2/