Mrs. E. C. Warner lived in Minneapolis, the city of wonderful lakes in southeast Minnesota.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis
In September of 1918, Mrs. Warner received a postcard from her children.
M. and B., perhaps a married couple, were on their way to “Columbia”.
There are numerous geographic place names for “Columbia”, but I suspect that the destination may have been Columbia South Carolina.
Columbia, the capital of the State, is about 260 miles southeast of Knoxville.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia,_South_Carolina
The couple mailed the postcard from Knoxville, Tennessee where they were waiting to change trains.
Knoxville, in eastern Tennessee, grew to importance with the coming of the railroads in the last quarter of the 19th century.
Today, the city is a gateway to the Great Smokey Mountains and a center of the preservation and study of Appalachian heritage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoxville,_Tennessee
The face of the postcard is a photograph of the “Second Presbyterian Church” at Church and Walnut Streets in Knoxville.
The congregation flourished at this location through the first half of the 20th century, and moved to a larger edifice (with additional parking) on the western side of the city in 1952.
The site is now the home of a city library.
As the travelers were passing through Knoxville at an early hour on a Tuesday morning, it is unlikely that they visited this handsome church.
The postcard was published by the firm, “C. C. & C.” – which is (I believe) the Carolina Card Company of Asheville, North Carolina.
On the reverse, we learn that friendships arose among the passengers on the railroad.
Mrs. Warner learns, “there is a Lieut. Perkins and his wife who are going to Asheville for their honeymoon.”
“We go around with them and are having a fine time…”.
The new friends would have traveled to Asheville together if the postcard writers were headed to Columbia, SC.
One hopes that Mrs. Warner’s children arrived safely in Columbia, that the newly-weds had a wonderful honeymoon, and that all returned safely to their homes.
