Miss Sophie Moore lived in Kleinfeltersville, an unincorporated community, east of Schaefferstown, in Lebanon County.
(Kleinfeltersville is the second-longest unhyphenated post office address in the US!)
Miss Sophie’s friend, F.M., was writing from Schaefferstown to announce a forthcoming trip to meet Sophie on the way to Stouchsburg.
(The postcard inscription is a phonetic spelling of Stouchsburg; I don’t believe there is any other nearby place name that could apply.)
Stouchsburg is an unincorporated community just across the County line in Berks County. It is about 7 miles from Kleinfeltersville to Stouchsburg.
(The town of Stouchsburg contains a wonderful historic district.)
The postcard wish for good luck could be offered for a variety of occasions.
It is used here as a means of rapid communication at a time when few households had telephones.
The twice-a-day mail delivery of the Postal Service facilitated this common use of postcard communication.
(Kleinfeltersville is a beautiful rural spot.
The handsome Albright Chapel stands at the burial place of Jacob Albright, a seminal figure in the spread of Methodism among the German- speaking population.)
