Hearty Thanksgiving Greetings – 1908

Posted on November 20, 2016 by Pat Shaul

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Hearty Thanksgiving Greetings.  International Art Publ. Co. New York Berlin.  Printed in Germany.

Post marked Columbus, Ohio.  Nov 19, 1908.  Addressed to Mr. Lee Weaver, Tireman St Cor. Scotten Ave., Detroit, Mich.

“Hello, Lee, Recieved [sic.] two of your post cards Mon.  I am sorry I did not receive the others.  Hope will soon.  Ans. this card please.  I did not recieve [sic.] the card for I sent that one.  Florence K [Koontz]”

Yesterday’s card must have gotten to Grandma!  Or, at least the sentiment.   Her reply is on a card from the same manufacturer and is letting Grandpa know it is all the fault of the U.S. Post Office and their lack of delivery.

 

 

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Best Wishes for a Good Thanksgiving – 1909

Posted on November 19, 2016 by Pat Shaul

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Best wishes for a good Thanksgiving. Print One Only Copyrighted by International Art Pub. Co., New York, Berlin.  Printed in Germany.  [Hand written in the upper corner: Hope you have a big dinner]

No post mark.  No Address.

“Detroit 11/13/1908   Miss F. [Florence] Koontz, This is the ninth post card that I have sent you and have only one in return.  I just think you are real mean.  L.W. [Lee Weaver]”

OK, not sent, but unknown if it got to  Grandma inside an envelope.  Obviously, Grandpa was getting a bit upset.  This was 1908, Grandpa was 15, Grandma was 13.  Apparently, they worked it out.

 

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Welcome Thanksgiving – 1920

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Pat Shaul

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Welcome Thanksgiving.   For love present, ill past — and good to come.  May our hearts rejoice this Thanksgiving Day.  Wolf & Co., N.Y.    No.3

Post marked Columbus, Ohio.  Nov. 24, 1920.  Addressed to Mrs. L. G. [Lee Goodliff; Florence Koontz] Weaver, 92 Tireman, Detroit, Mich.

“Don’t think I have forgotten you for I haven’t.  I still think of you once in a while.  Best wished for a pleasant Thanksgiving.  Hope to see you soon.  Essie [Koontz Postle, Florence’s sister]”

 

 

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Thanksgiving Day

Posted on November 17, 2016 by Pat Shaul

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Thanksgiving Day.  Give Thanks: For sweet hopes born for sorrows dead.  For true songs sung for fond words said.  For the ready cup fr the daily bread.  Copyright 1910.  

No post mark. No address.

Another post card in the never used cards of Grandpa Lee’s collection.

 

 

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Thanksgiving Greetings – 1910

Posted on November 16, 2016 by Pat Shaul

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Thanksgiving Greetings.  

No post mark.  No address.

“Effie Weaver.  Dove Pike, Co Ohio, Novem 23, 1910. Your Niece, Sarah Weaver”

This appears to be the companion card to yesterday’s posting.  Sarah Weaver was the daughter of Lemuel Weaver’s brother William Powell Weaver.  Effie and Lemuel were living in Detroit in 1910.  The majority of the Weaver siblings were still in the Columbus, Ohio area.

 

 

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Thanksgiving Joys – 1910

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Pat Shaul

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Thanksgiving Joy – Digesting the calendar.  Thanksgiving Series No. 4.

No post mark.  No Address.

“Nov 22, 1910.  Lemuel Weaver.  Your Niece, Sarah [Sarah Anne Weaver, Lemuel’s brother, William Powell Weaver’s daughter]”

This card was apparently either hand delivered or enclosed in a letter.

 

 

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Thanksgiving Greetings – 1911

Posted on November 14, 2016 by Pat Shaul

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Thanksgiving Greetings.

Post marked Mount Clemens, Mich.  Nov. 15, 1911.  Addressed to Mrs. L.[Lemuel – Effie Lee] Weaver, 94 Tireman Ave., Detroit, Michigan.

“Dear Friend, Hope Mr. W is improving, also yourself. Mt Clemens is a dandy town.  To bed for nine early.  Getting warmer.  I hope so for my sake. Do not care for too early a trip  – mornings hurt.  Love, Florence.”

Not sure which Florence this is from: neighbor Florence or future daughter in law Florence.   Grandma, the later Florence, would still have been in school so I doubt she would have been in Mount Clemens.

 

 

 

 

 

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Thanksgiving Greetings – 1911

Posted on November 13, 2016 by Pat Shaul

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Thanksgiving Greetings.  2277.

Post marked Redford, Mich. Nov 30, 1911.  Addressed to Mr. Lemuel Weaver, 94 Tireman Ave., Detroit, Michigan.

“Uncle Lem!  Hope this card find you much better.  We are going to have our Thanksgiving dinner and will miss you and Aunt Effie [Effie Lee Weaver] very much.  We are going to have roast pig.  This isn’t a very nice day.    Grandma [Esther Jenks Lee, Effie’s mother] and Estelle [Estelle Wright, Marietta Lee Wright’s daughter.  Marietta was Effie’s sister]”

I guess the Lee / Wright families did not stand by tradition and have turkey for Thanksgiving.   I am sure my mother would have approved — she much preferred ham to turkey and these were her relatives.  Apparently, Estelle wasn’t going to miss Lem and Effie’s son, Lee, my grandfather.  In 1911, Thanksgiving was celebrated on November 30 (the last Thursday of the month).

 

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Thanksgiving Greeting – 1912

Posted on November 12, 2016 by Pat Shaul

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Thanksgiving Greeting – After the Football Game.  Thanksgiving Series No. 4

No post mark.  Addressed  to Mr. Lee Weaver, 94 Tireman Ave., Detroit, Mich.

“Better late than never. Ain’t I a dandy?  Bring this home.  Write me.  I hope to hear from you.  Write out at Ypsilanti.  Good-by.  From your coz. Mae [Mariam Mae Wright]”

The dating of this post card to 1912 is based on Grandpa Lee being at Cleary Business College in 1912.

 

 

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Dinner Time on the Farm …

Posted on November 11, 2016 by Pat Shaul

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110.  Dinner time on the Old Farm (Scenes along the country roads)  A-11215.  E.A. Bishop, Pub., Racine, Wis.  Made in U.S.A.

No post mark.  No address.

Another in the quirky series of cards in Grandpa Lee’s collection.  Again, based on postage requirements of 1¢, the card dates between 1919 and 1951.

A fitting segue into the series of Thanksgiving Cards in the collection…

 

 

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