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“Jump on Your Cayuse” – Spencer, Nebraska (1909)

April 19, 2026 No Comments

Mr. George Harty lived in Shullsburg, a small city in Lafayette County of southwest Wisconsin. The community, amid the dramatic landscape of the “Driftless Area”

A Charming Irish Rose – Miami, Florida (1910)

February 25, 2024 No Comments

Mrs. J. Brown was in Miami, the Atlantic coastal city that grew rapidly after Henry Flagler extended the railroad to the area in the mid-1890’s.

May I Hope to Be Thine? – Hagerstown, Maryland (1909)

January 5, 2024 No Comments

Mr. H. C. Stolzenbach lived in Baltimore, the busy port city and transportation hub for central Maryland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore In February of 1909, Mr. Stolzenbach received