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1/18/2025 0 Comments

Singer Building, New York. January 17, 1913

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​Address: Mr & Mrs E. A. Duirsy?
Ellisburgh, Jefferson City, NY

Postmarked: New York, N.Y. State. E Jan 17, 3:30 PM, 1913

Message: Jan 17, 193
Illegible.

Postcard: Success Postal Card Co. Pub. New York No. 1021
1 cent stamp
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10/28/2024 0 Comments

Oct. 31st. Hallowe'en Greetings. October 28, 1913

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Address: Mr. J. B. Card.
Edmond, Oklahoma
R.F.D. No. 1

Message: 10-28-1913,
Mr. B.J. Card.
Kind friend How are you? I am fine and busy How do you like the weather I think it a little cold. Why didn't you go to the show Have a good time Halloween By By N.E.G.

Postcard: Front: Embossed.
Image: man with a pumpkin head? near fire and girl looking from bed at him.
Back: Series No. 2402 Printed in Germany
Red one cent U.S. Parcel Post stamp
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10/18/2024 0 Comments

Election trees, Visalia, Cal. October 18, 1913.

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Address: Miss Henrietta Puntion
1355 Downing Ave.
Denver, Colorado

Postmarked: Visalia, Cal. 3:30 PM

Message: Dear Girlie: I hear your mother is sick I hope this little card will find her well again. and also you too dear. With lots of love. Norma.

Postcard: Front: Election trees, under which Tulare county was organized, near Visalia, Cal.
Back: No 10. Publ. for F. E. Huffaker, Visalia, Cal. by N P. C. Co., L. A (Made in Germany)
1 cent stamp
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10/17/2024 0 Comments

Laurel Grove Cemetary, Paterson, N.J. October 17, 1913?

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Address: Mrs. L. Slater
124 Van Vranhen Aven.
Schenestady, N.Y.

Postmarked: Paterson, N.J. 9 PM

Message: Dear Gertie,
Hoping you are all well as this leaves us now. Gertie will you kindly send me the recipe for those cookies you made as I should like to try & make some. how is the folks at home. With love, Mabel.

Postcard: Front: 903. View in Laurel Grove Cemetary, Paterson, N.J.
Back: L. Stern New York - Made in Germany
1 cent stamp
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9/5/2024 0 Comments

Upper Willamette River, Portland, Oregon. September 5, 1913

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Address: Neal M. Wherry
Sterling, Kansas
Neal Maxwell Wherry
(Family Search ID: K4PK-MFR, 10th cousin, 3x removed)

Postmarked: Hanford, Cal. 2:30 PM

Message: Hanford Calif. Sept 5th, 13
At Uncle Oscar's time?
Dear Son's,
We took dinner at Alpha's yesterday. J.G.T. Mattie we'll back home. We go to Earney's today for dinner. Uncle Oscar has a car run about or stop about I don't know which. The boys are busy with honey & peaches. They are clearing over $100 per acre. Think we will go to Los A. about Monday. Good bye. With love, Papa.
Papa: James Alexander Wherry
(Family Search ID: K45F-BYJ, 9th cousin, 4x removed)
Uncle:
Oscar Trout Griswold
(Family Search ID: KH28-67X, 10th cousin 4x removed)

Postcard: 1340. Beautiful Scene on Upper Willamette River, near Portland Oregon. on line of the W.W.R. & N. Co.
Copyrighted 1912 By J. Weinstein.
Published by Portland Post Card Co., Portland, Ore. Made in U.S.A.
1 cent stamp
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8/26/2024 0 Comments

Best Wishes, August 26, 1913

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Address: Mary Foster
Tremont City, Ohio R.F.D. #1

Postmarked: Springfield, Ohio 2:30 PM

Message: 
Dear Sister, 
How are you and all the rest getting along this cold weather. When are you coming down. I don't know when I will get up there. Papa and Lena are both talking about working in town but if Lena don't I am going to. How did you like the fair. I didn't think it amounted to very much. I seen F.S. this morning he was s..rely going some because by little bit late well I guess I will have to close. ans. soon. from ?

Postcard: Embossed with purple flowers and some gold lining
1 cent stamp
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7/18/2024 0 Comments

Yellowstone National Park, July 18, 1913

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Address: H. A. Egluston
23 Grove Place
Rochester, N.Y.

Postmarked: Gardine Mont. 10AM

Message: Just starting into the park. This is the gate. Roosevelt dedicated it in a ideal morning.
H.C.B.

Postcard: Front: 8128. Entrance Gateway to Yellowstone National Park.
Back: Entrance Gateway.
This fine lava arch, which marks the Northern Entrance to the park, is situated near Gardiner, Montana. It was created by the government and dedicated by Theodore Roosevelt while president, April 24, 1903.
1 cent stamp
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7/16/2024 0 Comments

Success comes...July 16, 1913

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Address: Mrs. D. C. Patterson
The Everglades
Belle Center, Ohio.
D. C. Patterson
David Calvin Patterson
Family Searach ID: LVN2-99S

Married Elizabeth Nancy Reed
Family Searach ID: LVN2-934

Daughter: Lorena Claire Patterson
Family Searach ID: LVV6-FWX, wife of 10th cousin four times removed


Postmarked: Chicago, ILL. 1:30 AM

Message: My Dear Mother,
Received yours and Helen's letter today. I surely did enjoy them. I am glad the girls are having a good time. I wish Helen could stay until I go home. It will not be long now. We leave here sometime next week. My arm is setting it up harder there at first. I feel "Grippy" today - but I been able to attend classes. Do not bother trying to sew luge? for my dress. I will not have time to put it on. This is our last week of regular work so ur? have to dig in. Write when you can. Clair.

Postcard: Front: Success comes only to those who lead the Life of Endeavor. Roosevelt

1 cent stamp

I tried looking up "The Everglades" in Belle Centre, Ohio and the only thing I found was that before being settled in the 1840s it was a swampland. ​
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6/26/2024 0 Comments

Carlsbad Sanitarium, Dry Ridge, KY, June 26, 1913

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Address: Mrs. Raie Jackson
Arnsby Place
Madisonville, Ohio
(Family Search ID G3PC-VD8, 7th cousin five times removed)

Postmarked: Dry Ridge KY 5 PM

Message: June 26
Dear Raie,
Wish you were here with me, you would be well when you got home. The water is awful to drink but you would think it tastes like lemonade to see us all drinking 8 glasses at the time. Lovingly, Mary

Postcard: Front:
Bedroom, Carlsbad Sanitarium, Dry Ridge, Ky

1 cent stamp

History of Carlsbad Sanitarium:

https://kentoncountyhistoricalsociety.org/data/documents/September-October-2007.pdf
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