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“Happy Be the Hours” – Monterey, Indiana (1910)
Elmer Johnson lived in Monterey, a small town on the Tippecanoe River in northwest Indiana. The abandoned depot of the Erie Railroad has been preserved
Elmer Johnson lived in Monterey, a small town on the Tippecanoe River in northwest Indiana. The abandoned depot of the Erie Railroad has been preserved
We met Bessie Douglas in earlier postcard stories. Bessie was growing up in Anselma, a small community that grew up around a mill on the
Mrs. M. Rettig lived on West 40th Street in Manhattan, now a gentrifying neighborhood once known a “Hell’s Kitchen”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s_Kitchen,_Manhattan In February of 1911, Mrs.
Miss Glen. Schwabe lived in Plainfield, a village in northeast Illinois. Plainfield is between the cities of Naperville and Joliet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plainfield,_Illinois (The name of our
Elam Kennel lived in Atglen, a borough of Chester County in southeast Pennsylvania. Before the first European settlers arrived in 1717, the place was a crossing
Mrs. Anna Abernathy lived in Neoga, Illinois – a small city in central Illinois. Neoga developed as a center of the railroad in the state.
Traveling to York from Brodbecks in 1910 Sometime in 1910 (the postmark is distorted), Edna wrote from Brodbecks to her sister, Mrs. Ivan Butcher, in
Tellings stories from the past.