The Postcard Love Story of Emil & Bell: The Intro

Our story starts in 1909 with the courtship of Bell, age 15, and Emil, age 19. The lovebirds live approx. 10 miles apart in a mining area of northern Michigan. That’s a long distance at a time when there were very few cars and most transportation happened with horses.

As the story unfolds over their 3-year romance, we’ll see the frisky cards of the Edwardian Era. The message on the front – the selection of the postcard itself – is sometimes as important as the messages they write to each other. We’ll see them wooing. Being jealous. And filling their cards with innuendo.

I blanked out their family names. I struggled with this decision, but decided the family names didn’t advance the story.

Let’s get started.

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May 7, 1909
Loretto, Michigan

Emil, I’m having a good time. -Bell

Postcard: “Spooner’s Delight. Oh Sweetheart t’would be fine to cuddle you, If you only would tell me that you’d like it too.”

 

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