Mr. Frank Beesecker lived in Orrtanna, now a census-designated place in Adams County of south-central Pennsylvania.
Once the home to a tannery, Orrtanna was a stop on the Baltimore & Harrisburg Railway.
In 1913, a large cannery operated in Orrtanna, but the town declined by the end of the 20th century and the Post Office closed in 2010.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrtanna,_Pennsylvania
In March of 1905, Mr. Beesecker received a postcard from his bank – The Citizen’s Bank of Gettysburg.
Gettysburg, the charming town which became the famed battleground of the Civil War, is the County Seat of Adams County.
Orrtanna is about 8 miles west-northwest of Gettysburg.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg,_Pennsylvania
The face of the postcard is a printed receipt for a deposit; the amount of $83.00 is inscribed by hand.
Although it is not signed, the receipt bears the printed name of the Cashier – R. Wm. Bream.
(I believe that the cashier may have made a careless error, as I cannot find a “Beesecker” family name ever recorded in Adams County. There are multiple Biesecker and Besecker entries, and a Beasecker entry.)
The Postal Card was printed by the US Postal Service; it bears the printed stamp memorializing the recently-assassinated President McKinley.
The postal card was mailed from Gettysburg on the afternoon of the 3rd of March, and was received in Orrtanna the same day.
I have other examples of similar mailed receipts from banks – it seems to have been a common practice.
It is unclear if one could request that one’s banking transactions not be discoverable by the postmaster or postmistress.
Eighty-three dollars was a significant sum in 1905, and Mr. Beesecker may have been agreeable to having this deposit known by others.
I cannot find a history of this bank – bank mergers and re-organizations were not uncommon even before the Great Depression changed dramatically the organization of banks.
