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“Are You Cross or Sick” – Charles Town, West Virginia (1916)

November 22, 2024 No Comments

Miss Bettie Ott lived in Charles Town, a small city in Jefferson County of northeast West Virginia. Charles Town is on the West Virginia “peninsula”

Edward Brinton and the Turnpike Taxes – Lancaster, PA (1916)

January 19, 2023 No Comments

When stuck in traffic on any of the “pikes” that radiate from Lancaster, PA, one might remember that each of these roadways was once a

“Happy Easter to All” from Aunt Alice – Coopersville, Michigan (1916)

January 16, 2023 No Comments

Miss Hazel Kelly lived in Grand Rapids, the prosperous center of furniture manufacturing on the Grand River in west central Michigan. In April of 1916,

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