Creamery picture on postcard with poem, Clear Lake, Wisconsin
- US ARC PH 2016.001.123
- item
- [ca. 1912]
Part of Photographic postcard collection
A postcard with a small real-photo of the creamery in Clear Lake, Wisconsin. The creamery building is surrounded with wagons and horses either delivering or picking up. Verse on front of postcard: The rose is red, the violet's blue, this town's a hummer, let me hear from you. Date from postmark: Jan 26, 1912; mailed in Clear Lake Wis; green 1¢ Franklin stamp. Message: Addressed to Miss Blanche Squier, Kilkenny, Minn. R.F.D. Clear Lake, Wisconsin Jan. 26th 1912. Dear Blanche, Received your card and sorry to hear Mrs. Steidley passed away. If I went to Kilkenny now wold [sic] find a good many changes, well such is life. Mamma went to Rochester last wek [sic] and nothing can be done for her. Drs said her life was just a matter of time now. Poor mamma, guess there is nothing more to do but to take good care of her. Mamma & Julie are coming home by way of Faribault. They will visit there now a while. This week has been a lovely wek [sic]. Its swell out today. Maggie is going to leave U.[?] in March to make their home in Havre, Mont. They have taken a homestead. Harold is now a big man. Good bye, Amelia. Is Frank Judd married yet?"