Mr. Carl Rang may have been a bachelor, as he received a comic postcard with an amusing depiction of the single life.

Carl lived in Toledo, the busy port City on the Maumee River and Lake Erie.

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

On Valentine’s Day of 1908, Carl received the reminder of his singleness.

The sender lived in Toledo, but is not identified.

One imagines that the greeting was mailed by a frustrated beau who was impatient for Carl to give up the single life.

The face of the postcard shows a young man slouched in a wicker chair in front of a fireplace; his long legs are extended to the mantelpiece.

The bachelor smokes a cigar; an opened bottle and a glass stand on the table within arm’s reach.

The amusing drawing was published by the familiar English publisher, Bamforth & Co, who specialized in comic postcards.

Printed in England, the postcard was made circa 1906 – it has an undivided back.

One hopes that Carl was amused by the postcard and that he reflected on his marital state on St. Valentine’s Day.