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Friday Flashback #310

Today’s Friday Flashback comes courtesy of Seth Schachter’s extensive postcard collection.

This 1909 scene looks vaguely familiar:

Is it the Gault house and barn on South Compo?

The only hint is that it belonged to Thomas Turner.

Here’s the back of the postcard:

“Passive-aggressive” may not have been coined 113 years ago, but the phrase is an apt description of the message:

Well, your [sic] a great one why don’t you answer every one of my postals. I sent  you two or three and you sent me one.

Went to Danbury yesterday to Pomona Grange.

And that’s that.

Except for these mysteries: Who was Mr. Archibald Freeborn, at P.O. Box R?

And why was someone in Westport writing to someone in Lombard, Montana?

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