Tag: 1908
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March 31, 2008 06:25 PM EDT --
Okay, I admit it, I don't have a punch line for that one. Cait Murphy's book, Crazy '08 , will keep you entertained and then some though. Yes, it centers on the turbulent and see . . .
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March 22, 2008 06:15 PM EDT --
The book cover reads "How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History." After reading the book, I would say this statement . . .
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April 05, 2008 08:28 AM EDT --
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In the summer of 1908, Minnie Thorn had gone to Lehi, Utah to "see the sights".
Her sister, Mamie, wrote to her to tell her not to become home sick, and about learning to . . .
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March 09, 2008 08:09 PM EDT --
Book of the Day ~ Crazy '08 by Cait Murphy
Welcome ~The Book Review~ members and anyone who should happen on this review.
"It's tough to . . .
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October 12, 2008 09:37 AM EDT --
Mrs. Weatherall lived in Albion, Pennsylvania, a small town southwest of Erie and near to Lake Erie.
During the cold damp weather in February of 1908. Mrs. Weatherall was glad that her Mother came . . .
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June 01, 2009 02:15 AM EDT --
They're all dead now, she suspects, The people in the photograph; All taken by Death's scythe At some unsuspecting moment
Of their lives; the camera Seemed almost alien to them Judging . . .
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April 03, 2008 08:25 AM EDT --
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One imagines that it was hot in Oklahoma and Texas in August of 1908.
But, one Oklahoma girl was putting on some nice clothes and going to the "preaching" every night.
She mailed . . .
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June 22, 2008 06:47 AM EDT --
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A few months ago, I published an article which introduced Richard Van Camp.
The Brilliant Spider of 1908
Richard Van Camp was a much-loved boy.
His parents, siblings, . . .
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March 19, 2008 08:27 AM EDT --
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Some of the best examples of the printers' craft were created by the German manufacturers of postcards in the first years of the 20th Century.
This card, mailed from Hyattsville, . . .
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June 30, 2009 07:30 AM EDT --
Some time ago, I found a battered card with a primitive colored drawing that suggests the card was made in the United States about 1908.
The drawing on the card depicts a well-dressed young man eagerly . . .
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October 26, 2008 08:56 AM EDT --
The Plains were hot and muggy in August of 1908.
In Red Oak, Iowa, it was hotter than it had been during the previous six years.
Despite the heat, Aunt Jennie enjoyed a delightful birthday. . . .
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June 04, 2008 07:51 AM EDT --
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Fred Burnham had a lot of friends.
Some had a wicked sense of humor.
They ragged on Fred about his alleged lack of success with women, and about being a "disappointment".
In December . . .
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October 30, 2009 06:41 AM EDT --
Ruth Dent lived in Galloway, a small town is southwest Missouri (now, within Springfield, Missouri), and she loved to hear about exciting things elsewhere in the world.
In November of 1908, her . . .
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July 06, 2009 02:09 PM EDT --
The boy is wearing an elaborate and fanciful costume for fishing, and has landed a peculiar aquatic creature. I believe that the drawing is intended to represent a fish, but the creature . . .
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August 29, 2009 11:20 PM EDT --
In a recent postcard story, we met Blanche Callis and the friends who mailed cards to her.
Blanche Callis Is On The Move
One of the friends was Ethel Speicher. Here is the way she was introduced: . . .
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October 28, 2009 06:59 AM EDT --
In March of 1908, the mysterious writer, EMS, was visiting Binghamton, New York. Writing to Mrs. Edith Smith, EMS indicated that all was well. The visit to Mrs. Wilcox was successful, and . . .
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May 31, 2008 06:22 AM EDT --
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Tuesday was going to be a big day; there were many people on the move.
Auntie writes to her niece, Miss Mattie Jones, to tell her that she and Evalyn would take the early train.
Ethel, . . .
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August 23, 2009 07:25 AM EDT --
Blanche Callis was born in 1882 in rural Maryland to William and Caroline Callis. Blanche's father was a blacksmith. Blanche was the oldest of six children; she had three sisters and . . .
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December 14, 2007 12:12 PM EST --
This is the fourth trio of vintage cards that I have posted in this Christmas season.
Christmas Greetings of the Last Century
More Christmas Messages From the Last Century
Another . . .
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February 12, 2008 09:44 AM EST --
Today's vintage greeting for St. Valentine's Day, has no message.
It was posted in Philadelphia, to a Philadelphia address, on February 14, 1908.
Apparently, the card wandered through . . .
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