Mr. Aaron Fry lived in Millersville, the college town about four miles southwest of Lancaster in southeast Pennsylvania.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millersville,_Pennsylvania

(I have another postcard addressed to “Aaron Frey”, so I am not certain of the spelling of Aaron’s surname.)

Sometime around 1905, Aaron was given a comic postcard by Mary Barefoot.

We do not know anything about the connection of Mary to Aaron – she may have been a classmate, neighbor, or member of the Sunday School.

Presumably, Mary lived nearby as the postcard was not mailed.

The face of the postcard depicts an unsuccessful elopement:

A young woman stands at the window, wringing her hands.

An empty ladder stands against the house.

The hapless swain has caught his coattails on the ornamental fence – as the angry father rushes out the door with a buggy whip.

The scene is tagged with the name of a Shakespearean comedy, “Love’s Labor Lost”.

The postcard art was copyrighted (and published) by Paul C. Koeber & Company of New York City in 1905.

This is the only postcard I have found by this publisher.

On the reverse, the “undivided back” bears no message.

Aaron preserved the postcard throughout his life.

One hopes that he and Mary remained friends and correspondents for many years.