Monday, December 1, 2014

Miss Lilliian's Postcards - Vintage Tweets - Out West for Health

Postcard 025

Sender: Maureen and Edna McGarry
Addressee: Miss Lillian MacGuire, 1902G Terry Av., Seattle, Wash.
Postmark: Bellingham, WASH
Date: May 7, 1908
Image: Nooksack Falls, Whatcom County, Washington
Message: 
Dear Lillian, You failed to 
sign your last name &
we had to guess at it. Hope
this will reach you. We are
having a very nice time
and leave for home this
coming Monday. Go to
Vancouver by boat. We were
very anxious about you
until we received the
card and knew for sure
you were with your
sister. Hope you will like
the West & get good & strong.
Our Minneapolis address is
419 E. 14th St. Love from
Maureen and Edna McGarry


Looking very "Northwest", this postcard illustrates the beautiful Nooksack Falls in Whatcom County, Washington state, a popular attraction then and now. Whatcom county and Bellingham are adjacent to British Columbia, Canada. 


Well, well! This postcard from a pair of sisters from Minneapolis informs us that Lillian is still in Seattle, and evidently staying with her sister Ann, not a surprise there. What IS interesting is that Lillian is in Seattle for her health! I am intrigued! I wonder how poorly her health was. The summers and winters are milder in Seattle than in St. Louis, could that be easier on the health? Or did she have a specific ailment? No way to know.

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