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The cover at the top of this page intrigued me because of the "archaic" (?) use of the address "Miss Professor..." Anyway, come to find out the addressee was a faculty member at the University of Washington from 1897-1929 and was, in fact, Professor of Spanish. Her bio is shown below:  Another interesting point is that Professor Ober was a Deltiologist (a/k/a postcard collector). In fact, the University of Washington has an interesting website referring to her postcard collection of well over 57,000 postcards worldwide! http://www.lib.washington.edu/speci...d-collection |
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Thank you for providing a link to Prof Ober's postcard collection. As well as your usual great research! I did find it interesting the about 20% of her collection dealt with the Pacific Northwest and the logging industry. Now I wonder, who did she know in little "out of the way" Fort Bragg, Cal? |
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12 May 1919 Seattle WA to Chicago IL  Hemrich Bros, was a brewery until prohibition... Quote:
Hemrich's Staff Products Company (1916-1923)
With the onset of state-wide prohibition in 1916, Hemrich Bros. began doing business as Hemrich's Staff Products Co. On January 1, they commenced the manufacture of a cereal beverage (near beer) called "Lifestaff". The following March they added a sparkling apple juice called "Applestaff", both with the slogan: "It's Liquid Food."
The brand name of "Lifestaff" was a clever way of identify it as a beer. The term is an abbreviated form of "the staff of life" - which refers to bread. For Germans, beer - like bread - is a daily staple, and beer is often called liquid bread. So, "Lifestaff - a Liquid Food" gave little doubt as to what was in the bottle, especially to their German patrons.
On 31 January, 1918, the firm registered the name "Bockstaff" for a malt-less, non-alcoholic beverage sold as a soft drink.
The operation was under the management of Paul F. Glaser, who was also secretary of the company. They continued with this product until the imposition of national Prohibition in 1920. The Company struggled on for three more years, and in 1923 the Lake Union plant was sold. http://www.brewerygems.com/hemrich.htm |
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The addressee of that brewery cover makes perfect sense, too, here's the ad for Mr. A.E. Fritz of Chicago:  |
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Today's Cover was Official Business back in 1863. Mail from San Francisco on May 12 1863 the cover arrived at Fort Bragg May 18 1863. A quick check shows us that the post office at Fort Bragg was not open: Fort Bragg post office operational dates; Feb 15 1858--Jun 30 1858 Jan 15 1861--Jun 9 1862 Nov 11 1885--Open How this cover got to the Fort is a mystery, Noyo River PO opened Nov 17 1859 and closed Mar 3 1860 and opened again as Noyo PO twelve years later May 20 1872 and finally closed permnatly Jan 31 1918. Caspar didn't open until Jun 19 1874. Which leaves Mendocino, 10 miles to the south. The Reservation did keep a small schooner at Noyo for fishing and fetching supplies from Mendocino. Perhaps the letter was carried by currier? How ever it got to Lieut Johnson, it took six days. Judging from the contents of this cover, there was another cover dated a week earlier.     |
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For today's postmark, I thought I'd show something a little special and exoctic looking.  |
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Oops, missed yesterday's cover. 15 May 1908 Detroit to Ann Arbor MI. Odd member of my collection of political covers.  John Judson Bagley was the 16th governor of Michigan 1873-1877. He owned one of the leading tobacco companies in Detroit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Bagley Reverse:  Fred Maltby Warner was the 26th governor of Michigan 1905-1911. He founded Fred M. Warner Cheese Company which had 13 sites all over Michigan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_M._Warner Quote:
From the November 11, 1904 Eccentric (of Bloomfield MI)
SALUTE YOUR NEXT GOVERNOR: Fred M. Warner
Business Principles and a Good Cheese Maker Against Knowledge, Education and Oratory Wins Out by a Big Majority.
Bloomfield, Troy, Royal Oak and Southfield all gave majorities Tuesday in the Republican column from President down to coroner. http://www.bloomfieldhistoricalsoci...08_v3-i2.pdf |
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How often do you see covers like The Howard & Solon Co all over advertiing featureing two Governors and their wares? And a RPO postmark! Nice!  Are the postcard campaigns mainly mid west? |
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Thanks! A lot of them are from Minnesota but I have some from all over the US. I especially like the ones from small local elections like the one above.
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Do you find more covers or pastcards that fit your collection's criteria? Very intertesting collection! I hope to see more, is there a paticular season that sees more campaigning? In the meantime, out on the west coast the Boyd Eglin family has sent a card from both Humboldt and Mendocino counties, unfortunatlly, they don't have county or logging views, but I'll make do.  Monday may 17, 1909. Younger sister Eva sends Nora a thank you for a recieved package, apparently clothes for Eva's little girl.....one member of this family must have collected stamps at one time, because this card's stamp has been peeled off, as so many in this correspondence have.   May 17 1915 was also a Monday, when one of the Eglin girls writes from Blocksburg to her sister in Arcata to tell her that Papa broke the axle in the car, not sure when they will be back..and another missing stamp!   |
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