This seems like a good morning, with Thanksgiving just around the corner, to share again two postcards from the family album --- both mailed during the "teens" of the 20th century to my grandmother, Jessie Frances (Brown) Miller, rural Chariton, by her niece and best friend, Ida (Brown) Rogers, Midland, South Dakota.
I like the sentiment on the first, postmarked Midland on Nov. 22, 1915.
Ida noted on the back that the mid-November weather in South Dakota had been fine and mild, but that she was feeling stressed because of the need to feed six extra farmhands then engaged in hauling hay, a cash crop on the Rogers farm/ranch.
The Midland postmark date is smudged on the second card, but that's a great ear of corn.
End-of-the-year holidays were not then the frenzied extravaganzas they've developed into now --- but you were more likely a hundred years ago to go to the mailbox and find a handful of colorful Thanksgiving greeting cards as November neared its end.
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