Mr. Stephen Briel (Breyel) lived in Morrilton, a city in Conway County of central Arkansas – about 50 miles northwest of Little Rock.
Morrilton began as a settlement near an early trading post on the Arkansas River, but grew when the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad established a depot there in 1871.
(The postcard is addressed to “Morlton”, but there is no place of that name in Arkansas and the postcard message shows numerous errors in spelling of other words.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrilton,_Arkansas
In January of 1910, Mr. Briel received a comic postcard from his niece, Frances Merz.
I believe that the surname of Stephen may be “Breyel”, which was the maiden name of Frances’ mother.
The postcard was mailed from Foss, a city of Washita County in west-central Oklahoma.
Records from 1912 show that the town had a population of 5000 and supported two banks, three cotton gins, two hotels, an electric plant, and an opera house.
Today, the population of Foss is 151.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foss,_Oklahoma
The face of the postcard is an amusing drawing of a well-dressed young man carefully drying some small items pulled from a wash basin.
The man stands before a fireplace; on the mantel and on a shelf are numerous vessels of copper and iron.
Above the cooking ware is a row of decorated plates.
Below the illustration is the humorous line: “After you’re married, it’s time to dry up”.
On the reverse, Frances asks her “uncel”, “how are you getting along…”
Frances hopes that he is fine.
Then, Frances reports, “I reseved (sic) you(r) nice card”
In Frances’ household, “we are all well and hoping this find you in best of helt (sic)”
Because I was unsure of Frances’ handwriting and spelling, I did some on-line research on “Frances Merz” – and I was able to find her.
At the time the postcard was mailed, Frances was 17 or 18 years old.
I believe that English was not her first language – her parents were immigrants from Germany.
Frances M. Merz was born in Morrilton Arkansas in 1892 to Joseph Merz and Amalia Breyel (1870-1928).
Joseph Merz (1864-1947) (also, Mertz) was born in Germany and immigrated to the US in 1879.
Joseph lived in Arkansas until 1900, and married Amalia there in 1891.
Amalia was also born in Germany, and emigrated to the US and to Arkansas in 1880.
Joseph and Amalia had 13 children; one son died in infancy.
(All the children bear the German names of Catholic saints – and the siblings who married, married within the German community.)
Sometime around the beginning of the 20th century, Joseph and Amalia moved their family to Oklahoma.
Frances married George Theodore Kamphaus, Jr. in Oklahoma in 1915.
Frances and George had one son and five daughters.
One daughter may have died in infancy as there are no adult records of her.
Frances died in Oklahoma in 1965 and was buried in a Catholic cemetery in Washita County.