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 a population of 927 people.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester,_Adams_County,_Ohio
In April of 1911, Paul received an Easter postcard from Ellen Stroop.
Ellen mailed the postcard from Dayton, the industrial city on the Miami River in southwest, Ohio.
Ellen mailed the postcard from Dayton, the industrial city on the Miami River in southwest, Ohio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton,_Ohio
(On Easter weekend of 1913, Dayton would experience catastrophic flooding as three days of Spring rains would not be absorbed by the still-frozen land.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dayton_Flood
Dayton is about 95 miles northwest of Winchester -although there are no direct routes and a traveler would have to pass through Cincinnati.)
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The face of the postcard is a whimsical drawing of a boy dressed as a cook assisting a brood of chicks to emerge from an egg-shaped basket.
The basket is filled with tiny Spring blossoms.
I am not sure why the boy appears as a cook – It does not appear that the chicks are about to become an Easter dinner.
It may be that the cook’s job was to gather eggs or to tend to the chickens.
The newly-hatched chicks are stretching and fluttering as they encounter the world.
Above the scene is a printed legend, “A Happy Easter”.
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On the reverse, Ellen writes, “I hope you are all well”.
She adds, “We are well as usual.”
The message is sent “with love”.
Although Ellen added her street address, I cannot find a current building that corresponds to the postcard.
There is a “Pleasant Avenue” in Dayton, but it does not have a number 14 today.
Perhaps at a later time, I may search for a city map circa 1910.
