Mr. Hampton Pullis lived in Sparta, a township in northern New Jersey. Dutch explorers of the 18th century had discovered red clay in the area,
Scranton, the largest city in northeast Pennsylvania, became an important center of the coal-mining and steel-making industries in the 19th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scranton,_Pennsylvania Vast quantities of
We met Hampton Pullis in an earlier postcard story; he had received a postcard greeting from his Uncle John. In January of 1911 Hampton was
Tellings stories from the past.