Reading the messages does slow down the process when filing postcards at the museum, but it's one of the small rewards for what otherwise is a tedious process.
This card is labeled "Residence Scene, Lucas, Ia.," is dated March 20, 1908, and is addressed to Miss Bessie Davis, P.O. Box 87, Lucas. I don't recognize the house.
The message, in two parts, reads: "This will be the next subject for Sunday" and "This is Happy Hill. He was the man that said, give me Liberty or give me death?" And it was signed, "From 13$$3."
Bessie was Bessie Pearl Davis, who at age 18 was living with her parents, John and Sarah Davis, and sister, Lidda, when the 1910 census was taken. Her father's occupation was given as "railroad foreman."
Bessie went on to marry Edwin S. Robison during 1912 and their daughter was Margaret, who married Jack E. Miller. It was their daughter, Patricia, who found the card among her mother's belongings and donated it to the Lucas County Historical Society.
So we know who Bessie was, but the message remains enigmatic.
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