Divided back, used postcard, postmarked December 14, 1909 from Covington, Indiana. Front bottom left shows Copyright 1909 by Taylor Art Co.
Price: $10.00
“Get busy and get a pair of ruber boots and a void the rush for a soft time is coming, it gets very mudy around pig pens. from the Hog Remedy Co. 12-14 Easy St. Aylesworth Ind. hope you will receive our little booklet on pigs just from the printers hands sent you by to days mail if you fail to receive it just notify us at our office as we are kept busy day and night filling out perscriptions. Hope to get a reply soon will try and write so you can read it next time. Dec. 13, 1909”
Addressed to: Miss Jessie Coffing, Covington, Ind.
What a great message on this one, more detailed that the norm. Love how the sender is telling Miss Jessie she better get out there and get those rubber boots, and love his or her phrase “a soft time is coming.” And can’t you just picture the little booklet they sent, probably with some illustrations of pigs. Online searching, as of the date of this posting, is not showing anything for The Hog Remedy Company, and Aylesworth is a now extinct town that was located in Western Indiana – Shawnee Township, Fountain County.
As to the addressee: Jessie Coffing appears in the Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941, as marrying Freeman Knowles on April 7, 1910 in Fountain County, so this card would have been sent a few months before her marriage.
As far as the front, this is a nice humorous postcard. We see the stylish young redheaded woman hanging on to her skirts, while in the process of putting up her red umbrella. The skirts, hiked up just a little to keep them off the wet street, show her ankles and lower calves – scandalous to the older woman appearing in the background with her husband, but just fine for that same husband and the two other guys looking on.
Source: Fountain County, Indiana; Index to Marriage Record 1848 – 1920 Inclusive Vol, W. P. A. Original Record Located: County Clerks Of; Book: 14; Page: 456. (online at Ancestry.com)