Happy New Year!

Postmarked Caldwell, Kansas, December 28, 1908, 7 PM

Miss Jessie Burrows

Wichita

Kans.

1153 University Ave.

I was glad for your letter and Xmas card. I hope you will follow instructions carefully in envelope

   Lovingly,

   Edyth

(Edyth M Eby)

Greetings from Caldwell, Kansas

Postmarked Caldwell, Kansas, March 7, 190?, 12 M

Miss Jessie Burrows

Wichita

Kans.

1153 University Ave.

Caldwell, Kans.

Thursday A.M.

   Dear Jessie – I arrived in C– last night.  We closed the meeting Tuesday so I came home.  Haven't seen the folks yet.  Do not know just when I will be back but will let you know soon.

   I have lots to tell you when I see you again.  Will bring the "ginger cookies" back with me.

   Lovingly,

   Edythe

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Just for comparison sake, here's a screenshot of the same location from Google Maps today:

Colorado Springs of Loneliness

Come near losin' my hide in Color. S. of loneliness

Postmarked Colorado Springs, Colorado, September 21, 1907, 4 AM

Miss Jessie Burrows

Cherokee, Okla.

Dear Laughingeyes,

   How is it with you?  I am afraid if I should see you that I could not address you as above.  Remember that there is one other in like condition.

   Your friend T.

Printers Home Col Springs

   Real soon please.

A Hello in Leather

Hello!  I hope you are well and happy

Postmarked Udall, Kansas, Dec -, 1907, 9 AM; Wichita, Kans, Dec 1, 1907, 2 PM; Wichita, Kans, Sta. A., Dec 2, 1907, 2:30 PM

Miss Jessie Burrows

1153 University Ave.

Wichita,

Kans.

This is Wed. morning.  I hope you are having a good time.

By By XX Mina.

Crying for You

"CRYING FOR YOU."

Copyrighted, 1905, and published by Knaffl & Bro., Knoxville, Tenn.

Postmarked Atlanta, Georgia, October 3, 1908, 9 PM

Miss Jessie Burrows

1153 University Ave.

Wichita, Kansas.

I don't know which one I'll send yet.  They're both just crazy to go.

A Post Card Curse in Leather

Champagne to my real friends

Real pain to my sham friends

Copyrighted S.N. Co. 1906

Postmarked Haviland, Kansas, March 29, 1907, 9 AM

Miss Jessie Burrows

1153 Uni, Ave

Wichita Kan

+ + + + +

Today, I'm featuring an interesting leather post card from the collection of my great-grandmother, Jessie Burrows.

Mining Post Card from Joplin, Missouri, 1908

Souvenir of Joplin U.S.A.

(with samples of Zinc Ore, "Jack" and Lead Ore affixed)

Zinc and Lead Ore Mill, in the World's Greatest Zinc and Lead District. 600 Mines in Operation Producing $20,000,000. Annually, $64,000. for Every Working Day.

Stamped but not cancelled.

Jessie Burrows

Ingersol

Okla

Alfalfa Co.

2/5/08

Joplin Mo.

My address is

Perkins Okla

c/o Chas. Ratcliff

R–O–C

San Timeteo Canyon, Redlands, California

13913.  San Timeteo Canyon from Smiley Heights, Redlands, Calif.

Another unwritten and unmailed post card from the collection of my great-grandmother.  Looks like it may have originally belonged with the previous one from Arrowhead Springs.  I like the view on this postcard.  It reminds me of the topography where I live now.

Arrowhead Springs Hotel

70403.  View from Hotel Veranda, Arrowhead Hot Springs, California.


Today, I'm featuring an unwritten and unmailed post card from the collection of my great-grandmother.  It seems as though relatives and friends would pick up blank post cards from their trips and give them to Jessie upon return and that she picked some up on her own.  I don't know which way it ended up in her collection, but I sure wish I could travel back in time and enjoy California in its less developed state.

Uncle Clarence in a $1,500 Chalmers-Detroit

Today, I'm featuring an unwritten and unmailed post card from the collection of my great-grandmother.  Her older brother, Clarence Burrows, is again in a vintage automobile, this time it's a Chalmers-Detroit.  Chalmers, although out of business by the mid-1920s, was a pioneer in advertising, creating a campaign around the relatively inexpensive (for the time) price of their $1,500 car (about $36,000 in today's money adjusted for inflation).  Their 1908 slogan, which ran for several years, was, "This astounding car for $1,500."

Our Last Ride Together in Colorado, 1907

"Our Last Ride Together" in Colorado

No. 6. Copyright 1907.

Postmarked –, Colorado, August 23, 1907

Mrs. C.E. Burrows

University Ave.

West Wichita

Kans.

Station A

Glenwood Springs

Aug. 23– 07

Dear Mrs. Burrows

We are having the time of our lives – Scenery beyond description.  All are well but tired.  You may show this to the Ladies Aid and give my love to all.  Leave this eve for Salt Lake.

Daisy Lindsay

Uncle Clarence in an Reo Roadster

Today, I'm featuring an unwritten and unmailed post card from the collection of my great-grandmother.  Her older brother, Clarence Burrows, is at the wheel of a Reo automobile (I'm no expert, but I'd guess about a 1914 Rio the Fifth roadster).  Clarence must have liked cars, I've come across several photos like this one.

Milwaukee City Hall, 1906

Milwaukee [Wisconsin]. 521. City Hall

Postmarked Chicago, Illinois, August 7, 1906

Miss Jessie Burrows

1153 University Ave.

Wichita Kans.

10:30 AM - 8/5.

Hello Jessie. This City Hall is a beauty.  The clock strikes out every hour of the night.  I slept just across this street.  No rest for the weary.  Had a lovely ride up here in the "Northland"  Bye-bye.  Will

Remember tonight.

Christmas Greetings

Christmas Greetings

Postmarked Fort Scott, Kansas, December 23, 1908

Mr. & Mrs. C. E. Burrows

1153 University Ave

Wichita,

Kans.

This is to remind you of us, and also that we have not forgotten you.  Remember us to the children, we are well.  I would love to see you all again.  With love and best wishes, Shulls Ft Scott Kans

[Mary Shull was the sister of Irene Burrows and the aunt of Jessie Burrows]

Thus Endeth Our First Lesson

Thus Endeth Our First Lesson, SFA (Stella Friends Academy), 1909

Postmarked Cherokee, Oklahoma, July 20, 1909, 2:30 PM

Miss Jessie Burrows

Wichita

Kan

1156 Univ Ave.

Hello Jessie, how are you these hot days?  Those pictures on the plains are not very good but I will finish some of them and sent them to you if you want them.  Are you going to school Jim (?)  ha! ha!

   Best wishes, Stanley

May Thanksgiving Joys Be Thine

May Thanksgiving joys be thine.

Postmarked Wichita, Kansas, November 10, 1910, 7:00 PM

Mr. Clinton Smith

Sanford,

Fla.,

R.R. #3

11/10 '10.

Dear Friend:

   Am glad you like your new home but hope you have not deserted old W– entirely.  I would sure love to have been there fun to go boating.  Everything is the same here.  Nothing new.  Did you receive my letter and cards?  I addressed the letter to R. #1

   Edith B.

Haviland Academy, Haviland, Kansas

Haviland Academy, Haviland, Kansas

Postmarked Haviland, Kansas, September 16, 1907, 7:00 PM

Miss Jessie Burrows

Cherokee,

Okla.

Hello Jessie dear – Rec'd your letter Sat. morning.  Bless your heart it seemed awfully good to get it.  We are enrolling to-day.  Registered 34 this A.M.  Very bright looking young people.  I will like this work fine I believe.  You will get a some day.  Lovingly – Nellie May

(For clarification, Nellie May Benton lived near the Burrows in Wichita and would later become Jessie Burrow's sister-in-law).

What is Home without a mother?

167 – "What is Home without a mother?"

Postmarked Los Angeles, California, June 13, 1906, 4:30 PM

Rec'd Wichita, Kansas, June 16, 1906, 7:00 AM

Mrs C. E. Burrows

1153 University Drive

Wichita

Kans

Moma,

   This is the finest place I ever saw.  Day work for me.  Commence tomorrow the 14th.  Nice & cool.  Temp at Needles 116 at 11:30 P.M. yesterday.  Will write more when I can.

Clarence

(For clarification, Clarence was Jessie Burrow's brother).

Cotton Compress, Oklahoma City

Cotton Compress, Oklahoma City, Okla.

Postmarked Wichita, Kansas, August 27, 1907, 10 PM

Miss Jessie I. Burrows

1153 Univ. Ave

Wichita

Kans.

This looks like Texas to me: Have been here two days: How is the black-eyed beauty? Sweet as ever? In Wichita tomorrow – Fouts