Mrs. Elizabeth Goetz lived in Tiffin, a city on the Sandusky River about 55 miles southeast of Toledo in north-central Ohio.
In the early twentieth century, Tiffin was a manufacturing center for glass and porcelain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffin,_Ohio
In July of 1915, Elizabeth was celebrating a birthday.
She received a birthday postcard from H. B. Ward.
The postcard was mailed from Tiffin, suggesting that the sender was a neighbor or nearby friend.
There is no indication of how the sender might be related or connected to Mrs. Goetz.
The face of the postcard bears the drawing of a large rose and a medallion scene of a rural cottage.
Printed above the rose, a couplet expresses a fond wish:
“May happiest joys and pleasure true,
Make this a glad birthday for you”.
The image was copyright in 1912 by J. J. Marks of New York.
I believe the postcard was published by the same firm.
On the reverse, the sender inscribes only a name.
One hopes that Mrs. Goetz was pleased by the postcard and she enjoyed continued correspondence with H. B. Ward.
