CA Postal Card Cds 1880-S

The text of the card (as best I can make it out):

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Georgeville Oct 13/8?

Gentlemen,

Please add to my
order of today, 1 Caddy
best Black Tea - and oblige.

Yours truly,

H.I.Bullock

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Mess. George Childs & Co.
22 St Francois Xavier Street
Montreal, Que.

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Q/ Does the hand-written date not look like (18)85 corrected to (18)86? The postmark is (18)87!

Q/ Are other folks familiar with this (correct, if today uncommon) use of the word 'caddy'?

Q/ Are other folks familiar with this short-hand (no object) use of the word 'oblige'?

I could see it being used in the sense of 'oblige me', as in 'oblige me to pay by adding to my bill'.

I could see it being used in the sense of 'and I will be obliged'.

Here are some links regarding the uses of 'oblige':

http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/oblige the common usages with which I am familiar

http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/oblige more of the same

Q/ Could the unfamiliar usage stem from the writer's mother tongue being French?

http://www.englishpage.net/showthre...-Oblige-quot or the writer having spent time in India?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

a tea caddy is a box or other container to hold or store tea.
As for the date, couldn't tell you. Could be the postal clear installed the wrong indicia year in the hammer?

Something weird is going on with the dates on that Postal Card. The message side seems to indicate "1885" (in my opinion). The (presumably) Georgeville postmark on the face of the postal card is definitely October 14, 1887. The secondary Montreal postmark reads October 15. However, the handwritten note about filling the order (sideways over the indicia) suggests the date of October 13, 18(87).

I could see someone making a mistake in writing the date in the message (two years?!) apart. And I can also understand the Georgeville postmark on October 14 and Quebec postmark (received mark) on October 15, but how could that be if the date of the order is October 13?

Well maybe the card was going to be sent in 1885 and did not and person brought out the card a year later and changed the date to 1886 correcting the 5...Maybe..maybe it was held back another year then sent out without correcting the date once more and had a 1887 cancel on the card.

Q/ The '7' in the Montreal date received is a single-digit for the year? Or a zone? Or a clerk?