November 5, 2024
Author: Ray Hahn
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Women Wearing Barrels
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Who could possibly think that a woman would look good in a barrel? It’s a preposterous idea, but comics have put pretty girls in barrels to sell products and even protest taxes. Then there is the story of Annie Taylor. What she did in a barrel was no laughing matter.
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Three
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Have you ever thought about the number 3? It is unique you know. Can uniqueness be measured? Answers may vary, but this reexamination of the lowly number “three” may add a whole new dimension to your collecting.
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It Has Happened Again
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Challenge received; challenge met. An English doctor involved in a shipwreck arrives in California by happenstance and makes a handsome living by marrying well and daring to live closed to the sharp edge of the law. Wow! These ingredients are the makings of another historic tale seldom found in textbooks.
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The Story of Thomas Dornblaser
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In wartime, the Christmas cease-fire during World War I, is a good example of a strange happening between combatants. A less familiar event occurred in October 1864, when a Union cavalryman from Pennsylvania shot a Confederate captain from Alabama. One man died and was buried 175 miles from home, the other went home and wrote…
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There Is Always a Lesson to be Learned
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Leap Years have been part of our calendar for centuries, but the traditions associated with February 29 are much newer. Based on a legend centered on Saint Bridget and Saint Patrick, the Irish were the first to take-up the idea of Bachelor’s Day or as many call it,Ladies’ Privilege Day.
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Iron in the Sky
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Writing an autobiography is a most wrenching experience. You put your inner-most self onto the printed page and hope there is an audience that wants to read about you. What do you do when that doesn’t happen? You pick the pieces out of the ego-shredder and wait for a different time. It could take years.
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The Crossword
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Day after day for years on end, Americans “work” crossword puzzles. Today the crossword is as popular as it was during the “craze” that developed in the 1920s and 1930s. You may rue the days you spent doing crosswords, but you’ll always know the three-letter word for regret.
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William Penn
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William Penn was rumored to be a gentleman who learned the craft of diplomacy from his father. William came to the colonies to found a provence called Pennsylvania. He did. They made a statue of him. They put it on display. The people loved it, but there have been arguments ever since.
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The Admiral and the Merry Widow
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An American Navy admiral and a very wealthy Pontevedrian widow are certainly two characters that would seem to be a colossal mismatch. However, when a postcard is added to this story of patriotism, romance, and opera everything cyclones into a fabulous story. Enjoy!
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The Story of Nan Patterson
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The familiar expression, ‘Truth is Stranger Than Fiction” is certainly true in the case of Nan Patterson. You must read it for yourself, no description of a few words can offer this story the justice it deserves.
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The Death of Floyd Collins: A Tragic Tale of Exploration
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This story is about a cave exploration that went horribly wrong. The news of Floyd Collins’s plight spread quickly, and a rescue operation was launched but failed despite the best efforts of many. Collins was never freed from the cave, and died from exposure and starvation, but he wasn’t the only victim of this calamity.
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Three New Hampshire Landmarks
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The Sunday Drive once took families to places seldom visited for no other reason than curiosity. New Hampshire is such a place. It is there the motoring tourist can find historic treasures and discover people, places, and things explained on postcards.
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Jayne Mansfield
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It is only semantics but there is a difference between a birthday and a birthdate. May 30, 2019, was the birthdate of Postcardhistory.net, and today we celebrate our fifth birthday with the first deliberate duplication of a topic. And today we take a second look at Jayne Mansfield.
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The Volunteer Organist
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A song – The Volunteer Organist ¬¬– is frequently studied in university level music appreciation classes. It has a glorious history – so much so that they made postcards about it.
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Spend a Day Among the Brilliant
The American Spelling Bee5 Comments
Were you ever jealous of the kid in your class that won the spelling bee? I wasn’t but then, I failed twice in the second round. Well, I did make it to round three in 8th grade. Butt tat wuss longe uago! Did you know there are lots of postcards with misspelled words? Some people…
