Miss May Sucherman lived in Carlisle, a borough and county seat of Cumberland County in south-central Pennsylvania.
(I have performed, without success, a genealogical search for many variations of this surname in Cumberland County.)
Once a trading post and then a frontier town, Carlisle grew in importance during the French & Indian War and (later) by the influence of John Dickinson during the American Revolution.
Today, Carlisle is home to Dickinson College, Dickinson School of Law – Penn State University, and the US Army War College.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=carlisle+pa
In December of 1905, Mary received a New Year greeting from Vergia.
Vergia mailed the postcard from Gallatin, a small city and county seat of Daviess County in northwest Missouri.
Although having a modest in population, Gallatin was the site of several notable events, including the burning of the town in the “Mormon War” of 1838 and the fatal attack on a clerk by Jesse James in an attempted robbery of the Daviess County Savings Association in 1869.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallatin,_Missouri
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The face of the postcard is a drawing of a woman standing at an open window.
The woman wears a dress with a square-cut bodice, and covers her hair with a frilly cap.
She appears to be opening the diamond-paned window, which swings outward.
Beneath the drawing is a printed greeting”
“Wishing you a very happy Christmas”.
Vergia has crossed out “Christmas” and written, “New Year”.
(The postcard was mailed in Missouri on December 30, and delivered in Carlisle on January 1, 1906.)
The postcard appears to have been printed in the United States, and has suffered some fading and foxing.
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Because the postcard has an “undivided back”, there is no place for a message on the reverse.
The name “Vergia” on the face is the only clue we have about the sender.
I suspect that Vergia may have difficulty spelling – the address of “Pomfort Street” is likely to be “Pomfret Street”.
(Carlisle does not have a “Pomfort Street”.)
May preserved the postcard throughout her life.
On hopes that she and Vergia maintained a postcard correspondence for many years.
