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”,
Master Kinnard McCleary was growing up in Hagerstown, a commercial and transportation hub for the panhandle of western Maryland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagerstown,_Maryland From other postcard stories, we
Mr. Paul Baker lived on a rural delivery route outside of in Winchester, a village in Adams County of southwest Ohio. (In 1910, Winchester had
This delightful postcard was not mailed, so there is no personal story attached to it. Here, we see a fashionably-attired young lady standing among chickens
Miss Lauretta Hilyard lived in Newport, an historic town (founded in 1735) on the Christina Rive in northern Delaware. In the Colonial Era, Conestoga wagons
We met Bessie Douglas in earlier postcard stories (“Girl with a Broom” and “Boys on the Pier”). Bessie was growing up in Anselma, a small
Miss Polly Pembridge lived in Spring Brook, an unincorporated community of Lackawanna County in northeast Pennsylvania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Brook,_Pennsylvania In April of 1909, Polly received an Easter
Miss Daisy Pickel was living in Highville, a populated place on the River Road which borders the east bank of the Susquehanna River in southeast
Master Edwin Wasson lived in Clearview, a mysterious place in Pennsylvania. There are several contemporary place names of “Clearview”, including a small subdivision in Lancaster
Mr. Elmer Oberholtzer was working in Orrville, Ohio in the Spring of 1910. (I have published another postcard from the Oberholtzer family collection of postcards.)
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,
Miss F.L. Schade lived in Toledo, the port city at the western tip of Lake Erie in northwest Ohio.In 1918, Toledo was already an important