This card is from the same series as the preceding cards, a "Photoette" by C. U. Williams of Bloomington, Illinois. It is numbered 366 on the card and 6381 in the photograph. The view is north from the intersection of Main and Mulberry streets. (The hitching post on the left is the same one that can be seen in the view of this intersection looking south from Hackberry St.) This copy of the card was postmarked from Salem on August 17, 1909 and addressed to Mrs. Sarepla Stewart, Sharon, Ohio. The message is a reminder: "Dear Sep, Aunt Charlot McGlasharr's birthday occurrs the 25th. Will you please remember her with a card? Her address is Cortland, Ill. R.F.D. No. [blank]." The signature reads "Sallie Boggs." (I wonder if she was a sister of Reed Boggs?) I have another copy of the card was sent to Mr. Ray Marshall, Rt. 11, Pekin, Indiana, from Salem and postmarked 5 p.m., July 7, 1911. The message reads, "Salem, July 7, 1911. Hello! How are you this hot weather? Am at Uncle Wills, am coming home some time between now and the 3rd Sun. Say, for pity sake sake don't let any one see tht handkerchief I forgot it. Ha! Ha!" Down the left edge of the card runs the cryptic notation "N.I.P." This all sounds like the way romances were conducted in 1911. Still another copy was sent by "F.H." in Salem to Mrs. W. W. Shanks in Margaret, Texas, and postmarked noon, Sept. 18, 1908. (8/28/99, updated with new card 8/8/00, updated with new card 5/28/04) Home | The 1900s | Next card