Mr. William Flanagan lived in Bakerton, an unincorporated community in the northeast corner of West Virginia – where an irregularly-shaped, narrow tendril extends toward Virginia and Maryland.
Bakerton lies west of the Potomac River, in Jefferson County.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Bakerton%2C+West+Virginia
In February of 1926, William received a Valentine postcard from E. F.
The postcard was mailed from Brunswick, a small city in north-central Maryland.
Brunswick was established as an important point on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; it later became a maintenance center for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Brunswick is about 20 miles southeast of Bakerton, on the eastern bank of the Potomac River.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick,_Maryland
The face of the postcard is a delightful drawing of a girl and a boy sitting beneath a tree.
The boy holds a Valentine heart; overhead, a pair of love birds nestle on a branch.
Beneath the young lovers is a couplet:
“Birds and flowers all agree
that you are just the one for me”
The postcard was published by the Whitney Company of Worcester, Massachusetts; the reverse of the postcard has the company logo, “Whitney Made”.
There is no written message; we assume that William was well-acquainted with the sender.
One hopes that he and E. F. enjoyed a happy celebration of St. Valentine’s Day.
