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Easter Chickens for Daisy – Highville, PA (circa 1910)

April 16, 2026 No Comments

We met Daisy Pickle (also, “Pickel”) in earlier postcard stories: “Aunt Lizzie Sends an Easter Rabbit”, “A Turkey from Her Teacher” (1910), “Do No Murder”,

Aunt Lizzie Sends an Easter Rabbit – Safe Harbor, PA (circa 1910)

April 9, 2024 No Comments

We met Daisy Pickel in earlier postcard stories. When she received this postcard, Daisy was living on a rural delivery route near Safe Harbor, a

Aunt Lizzie Answers Her Nephew – circa 1910

August 29, 2022 No Comments

Ralph Johnson had written to his Aunt Lizzie, but had received no reply. At length, Aunt Lizzie responded with a postcard greeting to Ralph. The