Minnie Rossow sent this daring postcard to her friend, Herman Harms.
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Images courtesy of E.H.
And again, no matter how much fun she has with her friends or relatives, she's thinking of Herman.
I wonder if "Lillie M." might be Lillie Mueller. The Muellers did have boarders in their house, according to the 1910 census (where their name appears as "Miller"). But then who was the married sister? — Hattie? She was still single when the census was taken in April 1910, but I do find a couple records of a Hattie Miller, approximately our Hattie's age, being married in Cook County between the census and 1912: one in July 1910 (to Robert Kirchner) and one in September 1911 (to Frank Charles Kleinhans).
… So I've got a nice little theory here, but it's far from proven.
Sources:
♦ 1910 Census.
♦ Cook County, Illinois, Marriages Index.
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