Mrs. Guy Bremer lived in Lamar, an agricultural community and the county sear of Prowers County in southeast Colorado.
The small city is located on the flood plain of the Arkansas River and has endured a history of floods and fire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar,_Colorado
In May of 1910, Mrs. Bremer was celebrating a birthday.
For the occasion, she received a postcard from Ada.
Ada mailed the postcard from Cheyenne, the capital and most-populous city in Wyoming.
Cheyenne was established within the Dakota Territory at a junction of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1867.
Located on the Crow Creek in Laramie County, the city in southeast Wyoming is the northernmost point of the Southern Rocky Mountain Front.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne,_Wyoming
Lamar is almost 300 miles southeast of Cheyenne.
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The face of the postcard is a drawing of a very bright, red rose.
The long stem is adorned with a yellow ribbon.
Beneath the blossom is a printed title, “Loving Birthday Greetings”.
The image is numbered, but I did not find an artist’s initial.
The postcard appears to have been printed in the United States, but I could not discern a publisher’s mark.
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On the reverse, Ada did not add a greeting but begins her message by acknowledging receipt of a letter.
Ada is “sorry to hear you are so sick” and “hopes you are better now”.
For the occasion, Ada wishes “health and happiness on your Birthday,”
It appears that Ada may have a child, as she reports, “Beryl is better; she weighs 12 ½ pounds”.
Baby Beryl is “sitting in her buggy watching the children play”.
Ada and others “just got back from town”.
Yesterday, “we went to the auto races”.
The message continues with negotiations about membership in the ”Soap Club”.
We have seen other postcard stories about several of the thousands of clubs that were operated both by merchants and by producers of consumer goods.
Mrs. Bremer seems to have appreciated the remembrance as the postcard was preserved in very good condition for more than a century.
One hopes that Baby Beryl continued to grow up healthy and secure, that Ada earned laundry soap in the Soap Club, and that Mrs. Bremer enjoyed a splendid birthday.
