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Volume 11 , Issue 27

2009

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Penny Postcards

Grandpa was a striking figure in his suit, bow tie, white hat, seated on a chair reading a letter with another fellow standing behind Bill McGill. I have no clue of what or who the letter was from and can only speculate.

It was either a letter from a baseball fan; an acceptance letter from a minor/major baseball league or a love letter from Constance. Being the romantic that I am - I assume the latter. There are times I wish that I could travel back in time and - Talk with grandma and grandpa to ask them a few questions and fill in the blanks that I am running across today. Don't we all?

On the back of the 1909 postcard that Bill McGill sent Miss Constance Warwick, it gives Constance's mailing address as 829 Lincoln Ave., Colorado Springs, Colorado, July 26, 1909, 5p.m. The handwritten message says, "Lost my game yesterday 4-1. Will pitch against Enid about the 29th if I don't come out to Colorado." Backside Postcard

Here is another penny postcard of a 1909 baseball game at Guthrie, Oklahoma. Grandpa Bill's message on the front to Constance reads, "A few rooters. Don't you wish you were here?"

On the back of the card which it is postmarked August 14, 1909, Guthrie, Okla. 2-PM, it reads, "Just arrived back at Guthrie. Will pitch Monday. Got your letter yesterday. You may not have a dozen awaiting you though at Colo. Sprg. for I have been home working hard. Will write today." -- Backside of Guthrie postcard to Constance

This is an interesting postcard dated August 27th, 1909 that depicts an Oil Field around Sapulpa, Oklahoma. The wooden derricks and tanks are scattered over the hillside. I'm not quite sure what part of Sapulpa it was taken.

Backside of Sapulpa postcard. The backside of this postcard is postmarked Aug. 27, 1909, 2-PM, Sapulpa, Oklahoma, addressed to Miss Constance Warwick, Alva, Oklahoma. It reads as follows, "Am looking for a missive (written message). We lost today for the first time in long while. I work tomorrow. Ever, WJ"

This is an interesting postcard of a 55,000 bbl storage tank of some oil fields near Sapulpa, Oklahoma around 1909. On the backside it shows the postmark as Aug. 28, 1909, addressed to Miss Constance Warwick, Alva, Oklahoma, with the following message, "Glad to know you are home again. Will be there soon. I know somebody that won his game today 8-1. The only one that we won here. We go to El Reno tomorrow for 3 games. Then home for 3 then to Enid for 2 days. Ever, W."

I leave you with one last thought and "A Cowboys Prayer" found on this Penny Postcard: "O Lord, I've never lived where churches grow; I've loved creation better as it stood That day you finished it, so long ago, And looked upon your work and called it good. Just let me live my life as I've begun! And give me work that's open to the sky; Make me a partner of the wind and sun, And I won't ask a life that's soft and high. Make me as big and open as the plains; As honest as the horse between my knees; Clean as the wind that blows behind the rains; Free as the hawk that circles down the breeze. Just keep an eye on all that's done and said; Just right me sometime when I turn aside; And guide me on the long, dim trail ahead -- That stretches upward towards the Great Divide. --- Author Unknown."

There are more of Grandma's Penny Postcards on our Flickr - nwokie.
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