Miss Carrie Wright lived in North Kansas City, a town across the Missouri River from Kansas City, Missouri.
Today, North Kansas City remains a small enclaved city although now surrounded by the megapolis of Kansas City.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Kansas_City,_Missouri
In August of 1929, Carrie received a postcard from A.K.
The postcard was mailed from Chippawa, a village at the confluence of the Chippawa Creek and the Niagara River – about two miles upstream of Niagara Falls, Canada.
Since 1970, Chippawa has become a neighborhood within Niagara Falls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chippawa,_Ontario
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The face of the postcard is an uncolored photograph of “Trinity Church, Chippewa, Ont.”.
This is Holy Trinity Anglican Church, the first church in Chippawa (1820) and one of the oldest parishes in the Province of Ontario.
A blurb below the title informs us this structure was erected in 1842 after an earlier structure was “burned by rebel sympathizers in 1837”.
This rebellion is known as “Mackenzie’s Rebellion” or the “Upper Canada Rebellion” – two periods of armed conflict in the 1830’s against the British Colonial oligarchy.
The rebellions were both suppressed, one brutally, but reforms did follow in the two decades that followed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebellions_of_1837%E2%80%931838
Today, the brick church in Early English Gothic Revival style remains an active Anglican parish and has been awarded the statue of “Heritage Value”.
The postcard photograph was published by F. H. Leslie Ltd. of Niagara Falls (Canada).
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On the reverse, AK begins the message without a greeting: “Here on a short trip”.
The writer assures Carrie that (he or she) “sure appreciated your letter a month or more ago.”
AK “will try to write later”.
By way of explanation or apology, the traveler reports “have been sick about two months.”
Knowing how many persons suffered from extended illnesses in the years before antibiotics and other medical interventions, this may be plausible.
Today, the message sounds insensitive or cavalier about failing to respond to a letter but taking a vacation.
One hopes that AK was restored to full health by the jaunt to Canada and that the tardy letter was sent to Carrie.
