Postmarked Wichita, Kansas, January 8, 1909, 10 AM
Miss Jessie Burrows
City
University Ave.
I received your kindly written little missive all O.K. but! Say really I dident mean to frighten you entirley away from school. I'm very sorry indeed however I hope you will soon recover and again be numbered with the grave & reverened Seniors. (Hahaha)
Leisure
9 comments:
I'm pretty sure that should be "hope you will SOON recover and again be"
Yep. A typo on my part. I'll make the correction. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, Roger.
I find it interesting that she received the postcard at all, since the address is just "City". Amazing postal delivery back then!
My Gradmother use to get mail just address to:
Gramma
Main Street
Rugby, Borth Dakota
Now the shoe's on the other foot, Roger. Look at your last post.
But, yes, I agree about postal service of old. My mother received letters addressed similar to your Gramma's.
I'm puzzled about the postal address also and am guessing nonsense such as
-maybe 'City' automatically meant same place as where posted
-maybe this was posted on a campus
where each building was located on a different avenue in 'Campus City'
-maybe only one University Avenue existed in entire USA
-maybe Mr. Nate will enlighten us/me
City would have meant "deliver to this person in the city from whence it was mailed".
If you lived in Des Moines, Iowa you could have addressed the card to:
Person
### Euclid Street
City
The world was a much smaller place . . .
@Nance
Thank you.
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