Miss Oacle Marsh lived in Seaman, a village on the Cincinnati & Eastern Railroad line in southwest Ohio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaman,_Ohio

In October of 1933, Miss Marsh received a postcard from her friend, Josephine.

Josephine Neff had moved to Leetonia, a village in east-central Ohio.

In 1933, the Leetonia Coal and Iron company was beginning to falter during the Great Depression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leetonia,_Ohio

The face of the postcard is framed with a plant-themed border in the Art Nouveau style.

Within the attenuated vines, punctuated with green leaves and red roses, is a drawing of a small craft upon a calm stream.

A rather stupid verse suggests an obvious truth -that the recipient might know the location of the sender from the information on the postcard.

On the reverse, we learn a bit about the relationship of Josephine and Oacle.

It seems that they were once close, but Josephine’s postcard of last February had never been answered.

Josephine has now moved, and she was trying to renew the acquaintance once more from her new address.

Josephine announces that, “I am in Leetonia at my sisters (sic).”

Her new address is included as Josephine states, “I am making my home here.”

After making inquiries about Mr. and Mrs. Day, who seem to be mutual acquaintances, Josephine adds interesting details about her personal transformation.

“You will be surprised to hear I have my hair bobbed” and, “I have a permanent wave now.”

Bobbing one’s hair was looked upon as a daring and transgressive act in the early 1920’s.

Ten years later, it may be that Josephine wanted to let her friend know that she was no longer the same sort of person she was in the past.

Josephine notes her location in Ohio, and reports having attended a recent street fair in Leetonia.

One hopes that Josephine continued to enjoy her new look, that her acquaintance with Miss Marsh was renewed, and that the friends remained correspondents for many years.

Note:

The unusual first name of Miss Marsh makes on-line sleuthing easier.

Oacle Marsh was born in 1914, the daughter of Charles Bolton Marsh and his second wife, Mary Elizabeth Day.

Oacle had three surviving step-siblings from her father’s first marriage; Charles’ first wife died after the sixth child was born.

Oacle was the first-born of the second marriage, and had four full siblings.

About 1940, when when was 26, Oacle married Chester Kier in Boyd, Kentucky.

Chester and Oacle had a son within one year, Leroy Eugene Kier.

The couple’s second child, a daughter, died at four years of age.

About 1960, Leroy married Ethel Marie Ward in Hillsboro, Ohio.

The couple had three sons and three daughters – six grandchildren of Oacle and Chester.