5/13/07
I am sending your ribbon today. the best I could get in Clinton 29 cts per yd. So I have 38 cts of your money left - do you want something more or shall I send you the cash. Hope it will be all right. It is just what is used for the hair. Aunt Nellie
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I was looking for a ball this evening and instead came across a bunch of postcards dated from 1905 to 1907 that I got from my grandmother's house in Tucumcari, NM years ago. A 1-cent stamp, a name and a town was apparently all that was needed for the card to get to its destination back then! I'm not entirely sure who Ethel Mae is in relation to me--perhaps aikimomm knows?? But I would really love to know what she was making that required ribbon all the way from Boston... :-)
I love this--I used to buy old postcards just to keep the messages in my adoring hands. It got to be a bit much, so I quit and saved only the valentine postcards. Great stuff.
That pile of postcards is actually from your great-grandmother's house. I got them from Granny when I was a kid -- and I'm surprised they still have the stamps on them (probably just because they're duplicates of what I already had). Maybe Ethel Mae was a friend of Granny's.
As for the simplified address, even up to when I left Tucumcari in 1960 I would receive mail addressed simply to "Phoebe, Tucumcari, New Mexico." Small towns, the good old days, eh?
Cool! Collected old postcards for year, so this really appeals to me. These cards were used before they came up with the divided backs. You used to have to write on the front of the card and the back was solely reserved for the address. In fact, it was in March of 1907 that the post office finally allowed someone to write a message on the back, so this card that you have was probably purchased pre-1907.
February 10th, 2011
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As for the simplified address, even up to when I left Tucumcari in 1960 I would receive mail addressed simply to "Phoebe, Tucumcari, New Mexico." Small towns, the good old days, eh?
You did a great job with this, Jenn.