Hello, American Felix!

Bonjour Americain Felix!


M. J. D. Felix Lavoie
89 Rumford Ave
Rumford Falls
Maine
U.S.A.


Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatèire
Cher Felix
      Que j'ai bien haté de te revoir au près de moi eu jour est encore bien loin cheri.
                                     Par amie sincère
                                     et fidele à pour Felix,
                                                      M.L.

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Hello, American Felix!


M. J. D. Felix Lavoie
89 Rumford Ave
Rumford Falls
Maine
U.S.A.


Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatèire
Dear Felix,
     I cannot wait until you are near me again, but the time is still far away, my dear.
                                                                     A friend sincere and loyal to Felix,
                                                                                                           M.L.





The front of the post card says M. Louise written over top the woman on it in the bottom left-hand corner. Felix is written in the top right-hand side by the man depicted on the telephone. Clearly, the 'L' in M.L. is for Louise, but the initial 'M' is unknown from this postcard. Clearly though, the two people on the front of this postcard were intended by M. Louise to show how the two of them can only speak over the phone for the time being, considering she lives in Quebec and he in Maine. If you're curious as to how far exactly that is, it's 1,422 km away (about 883.6 miles). This would take about 19 hours to travel in the modern day car on modern highways, not including the time to pass the tedious border security...imagine how long it would take for these two friends to travel over borders to see one another in the late 1800s or very early 1800s! It would have taken forever and then some!

Here is some information on Rumford Falls and a video of it from YouTube, the place where Felix lived. Thanks to Google Streetview, I was even able to get a picture of the actual house where Felix was living at the time (I put the picture below that of the postcard). Secondly, I found that Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatèire is in Quebec (Canada), but there was really only this picture of the town from around the time this postcard was written.

Oddly enough, there is no postage nor any indication that this postcard was ever sent from the female friend M.L. to Felix. Strange, huh?

Well, I think I'm going to mail a copy of this postcard to the address that's there and include my email and maybe, maybe, maybe the people will email me regarding any information they may have about their house's past owner (if they're nice and have the time to do so). Of course, I will update this post with any information that I receive.