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This card was published by the Ft. Wayne Paper Box & Printing Corp., and has a silver border just like the 1930s series of cards from that publisher. It is numbered E-804, out of sequence with the other views. Perhaps it was done as an add-on by the publisher as a marketing effort, to help place a rack for the cards in Neal's establishment. The card was mailed from Campbellsburg, postmarked at 3 p.m. on March 9, 1945, and addressed to Miss Estelle Brown, of Supply, North Carolina. The message sounds like a pen pal/card club exchange: "Dear Estelle, I also will try to have a quilt block ready for you to send before I write again, as I want to help out with your quilt. So I promise you a picture of me (and prepare yourself for a shock), and a quilt block real soon. "I hope you like both of these cards. This one -- Neal's is a candy kitchen and I guess this is right back of it. Salem is our county seat. I've tried to find cards of the court house, but can't. The other one -- I had my cousin get me some cards of diff. The Ohio certainly isn't pretty now. Perhaps you've heard about the floods. Whiter Riv., over here, is also out all over everything. Floods are pitiful! Write soon!! Love, Mildred" (4/25/01)
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