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Ina has a birthday on Sunday.
In the days leading to this great day, I am publishing Birthday Greetings in her honor.
Here is the first in the sequence:
The Second Birthday Image is found below:
Postmark
Lowell, Mass; March 10, 1911
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Mrs. Sarah Boutwell
Lowell, Mass
R.F.D. #1
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Message
Congratulations
I wish I was able to call and see you
but - will have to mail until warm weather.
With love and best wishes
I remain your friend
Mary A. Hardy
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Comments: 28
Peter, this is a lovely card with a really stupid verse. I have to wonder - how can it be too cold to call? Did they used to have outdoor telephones as well as outhouses back then? Were phone lines particularly susceptible to weather?
Enquiring minds want to know
Yes, it was a relatively trouble free procedure. The appointment was for 9:30 and I was back in my driveway at 10:39. I think I found a new dentist.
Glad to hear that the root canal was quick and relatively painless.
Nice to see that Charles can bless the week of celebration for Ina.
Sarah Boutwell, I am sure, was implicated in a terrible crime.
I am not sure what Ina prefers.
Chocolate?, Devil's food?, Red Velvet?
I must bring it to her attention.
I am eager to learn about the sinister activities of Sarah Boutwell.
The "Congratulations" in the message suggests that Sarah may have been assisting with a childbirth, or some sort of family celebration.
It was her birthday !
He was Vice-President of the United States under James Monroe, and he died in office.
While he is remembered for the gerrymander, he was also a highly-principled believer in Democracy. A signer of the Declaration of Independence, Gerry refused to sign the Constitution until a Bill of Rights was attached to it.
A true American hero, from whom Mary Hardy's husband seems to be descended.
The card was mailed in 1911, when E.G Hardy was 64.
If Leon, the "late" baby (1893) lived to 1970 of so, he would have been connected, through his grandfather, to the time of James Monroe.
How exciting.