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I know, it doesn't say "Easter," but it says "Greetings" and it's got flowers and it's the best I can do.
The verso reintroduces the mysterious Cora Harms …
… only this time she's in Hobart, not Logansport. I still can't figure out who she is and how she's connected to anyone in this area. I think her maiden name was Dempsey. She worked as a dressmaker until marrying Charles W. Harms in 1907, when she was about 42, if she was born in 1865 as she told the enumerator of the 1910 Census. Then this happened:
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Logansport Pharos-Reporter, 29 May 1917.
Later Logansport directories list her operating a fur and dressmaking business as Cora Dempsey. But I can't find her in censuses or fill in the rest of her story. She may have remarried one or two times.
As for the postcard's sender, Marie Strong — you'd think that with all the Strongs around here I could connect her to someone local, but you'd be wrong. I can't even figure out for sure who she was.
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