Grandmother – 1909

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Pat Shaul

 

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Grandmother  551-D. Written across the ribbon — I feel as old as I look.

Post marked Detroit, Mich.  Jan 13, 1909.  Addressed Mrs. Effie Weaver, Tireman Ave. Detroit.

“Dear Sister, I’m sending you my picture for you will not know me when you see me next time.  I am getting along as well as I could expect I guess but it seems very slow.  I can move my knee some but cn’t lift my foot up yet – am still in bed.  Will let you hear again this week.   Ettie [Marietta Lee Wright]”

Apparently, this was the 1909 version of sibling guilt giving.  Aunt Ettie wanted Great Grandmother Weaver to know she was not doing well and feeling very OLD.   Subliminal hinting.   Also, notice the casual addressing.  No street number, no cross street, yet the post card was delivered.

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Greetings – 1908

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Pat Shaul

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Greetings.

Post marked Columbus, Ohio, Nov 20, 1908.   Addressed to Mr. Lee Weaver, Tireman St. Cor Scotten Ave, Detroit, Mich.

“Hello Lee.  I received your card the other day.   Many thanks.  I hope you had a big Thanksgiving dinner.  I will have to look up to you.  As ever, your friend, Florence K. [Koontz]”

Too bad Grandma did not keep the cards Grandpa sent to her so we might know why she thought she would have to look up to him.   This is still almost ten years before they married in May, 1918.

 

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Bowling – 1908

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Pat Shaul

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Post marked Redford, Mich.  Oct 28, 1908.  Addressed to Mrs. Effie Weaver, Tireman Ave cor Scotton Ave, Detroit, Mich.

“Redford, Oct. 22.  Dear Ma,  I can’t come home for tomorrow but can’t you come out to Aunt Ora’s [Ora Lee Churches].  Grandma [Esther Jenks Lee] is going down to A. O. and (over) [to the front of the card, because he had more to say] you could ride up with her.  Uncle Steve [Stephen A. D. Wright, husband of Marietta Lee] wants me to help him tomorrow.   Lee [Weaver].  [and up the side]  I will be home tonight.  Nothing urgent.

In the early 1900s the family was clustered in Southfield, with Effie being the sibling that had moved on to the city and lived in Detroit.   Her sisters Ora and Myra and brother Willy still lived in close proximity to each other.   Willy lived with their mother on Berg Road in the house built by Morris Jenks in 1854.

 

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Olentangy Park, Columbus, Ohio – 1908

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Pat Shaul

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A glimpse of river, Olentangy Park, Columbus, Ohio.    Jacobs & Greene, Columbus, Ohio.  Made in Germany,

Post marked Columbus, Ohio, Nov 2, 1908,  to Mr. Lee Weaver, Tireman Corner of Scotton, Detroit Mich.

“Hello Lee, I have been waiting for a card from you for the last two months and haven gotten any yet.  I will expect a card.  Florence [Koontz]”

and just in case he has forgotten her address, she has added it to the top of the card:  Florence Koontz, 1346 West Broad St, Col. Ohio.

I think this was Grandma giving Grandpa a NUDGE!     Again, notice the simplicity of the addressing to Lee in Detroit.   No address number.

 

 

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A bit more whimsy – 1910

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Pat Shaul

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Getting the exposure – Pleasures of Photography.   Copyright 1909 M.D.T.

Post marked Ypsilanti, Mich. Jan 19, 1910.   Addressed Mrs. Effie [Lee] Weaver, Detroit, Mich.  94 Tireman Ave.

“C. B. C. Ypsi. Mich.

Jan 19, 1910

Mother,

Will send you a card tonight.  I will be home Friday night after I take a lesson. L.W. [Lee Weaver]”

This is my grandfather letting my great grandmother know he will be coming home from college (Cleary Business College) on the weekend.  What I find of great interest is that the post card is TYPED.

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Just for fun – 1909 Style

Posted on April 19, 2016 by Pat Shaul

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So popular with the Ladies tis hard o decide.  

Post Marked Redford, Mich.  Feb 9, 1909.  Addressed to Mr. Lee Weaver, Cleary Business College, Ypsilanti, Mich.

“Hello!  Dr.”

No clue.   Must have brightened Grandpa’s day on what must have been a cold February away from home.

 

 

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Ann Arbor, Main Street, 1910

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Pat Shaul

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Ann Arbor, Mich.  Main Street, Looking South.  HOAG, Publisher.

Post marked Dexter, Mich.  Jan 13, 1910.   Addressed Mr. Lea Weaver, 94 Tireman A, Detroit, Mich.

“Hello old Kid.  Say I am going to write you a letter before many years and have you come up some night. L. E. Reade”

Apparently, in 1910, they sent post cards to let each other know that they might eventually send a letter.  Interesting is that this friend chose to misspell my grandfather’s name, Lee as Lea.

 

 

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Ashland Ave. Baptist Church – Toledo, Ohio 1910

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Pat Shaul

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Ashland Avenue Baptist Church, Toledo, O.  – No. 1207 The Clinton Close Company, Special Series. Made in Germany.

Post marked, Redford, Mich. Jan 6, 1910.  To Mr. Lee Weaver, 94 Tireman Ave. Detroit, Mich.

“Dear Cousin, Lee you want to come out and go to the shadow social Friday night — it is over to Lucile Harmons.  Charles Young is going to take a load over.   Tell Ambrose he wants to go.  Will look for you.  Good-by.  Mae [Mariam Mae Wright].    (Mamma [Marietta Lee Wright] is tired after her trip)”

Now to figure out what a SHADOW SOCIAL was in 1910…..  And, why the family living in Southfield, Michigan, had post cards of a church in Toledo, Ohio.

 

 

 

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Central Avenue, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich 1910

Posted on April 16, 2016 by Pat Shaul

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Central Avenue, Belle Isle, Detroit’s principal recreation spot is an island in the Detroit river connected with the city by a bridge 8 feet less than half a mile in length.  

It comprises 702 acres, is over __ miles long and boasts over 20 miles of fine macadan roadway which completely circles and frequently intersects it.  A fine zoo, aquarium, horticultural building, swimming, and sailing pavilions, casino, and boat livery are in connection.  The city has expended over $1,500,000 on it since its purchase in 1879.

Post marked, Redford, Mich.  Nov 28, 1910.  To Mrs Effie [Lee] Weaver, 94 Tireman Ave. Detroit, Michigan.

“Redford, Mich.  Nov 29. ’10.   Aunt Effie [Effie Lee Weaver],  Uncle Willie [Lewellyn Lee] is better.  We haven’t heard from Mrs. Gray since yesterday.  She was about the same.   Mr. Douglas is failing.  Uncle Willie was there this morning.  Don’t suppose Lee [Weaver] has got home.  Wasn’t that bread good you took home?   Estelle [Wright]”

Now that is packing a bunch onto a single post card!   The Gray and the Douglas families were neighbors of the Lee family in Southfield.

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Grant’s Tomb, Riveside Drive, N.Y. – 1909

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Pat Shaul

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Grant’s Tomb, Riverside Drive, New York.  J. Koehler, New York Berlin 1506

Post marked Columbus, Ohio, Jun 10, 1909, addressed to Mr. Lemuel Weaver, 94 Tireman Ave, Detroit, Michigan.

“Jun 9-09 Columbus, Ohio.  Mr. L[emuel] Weaver.  Dear Brother and family hope you are all well.  Say Rose’s [Roseanah Weaver Fisher] birthday will be the the 19th of this month and we want to send her some Birthday cards.  She will be at Lew’s [Charles Lewis Weaver’s].   The address is Star Rout No 1.  Tell Lee [Weaver, his son] to send her one from Buffalo [where he was docking during his summer on Great Lake steamers].  She is not very well.  C. W. Rinehart [Christiana Weaver Rinehart].  don’t forget to put on Corning, O.

My great grandfather’s sister trying to organize a birthday card avalanche to their sister whom is no feeling well — Aunt Rose lived until 1931.  Not sure why Aunt Teen had a post card from New York to send from Ohio, but she did….

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