Miss Adrienne Augarde

Miss Bessie Rothudl
536 Lower Hursted
Smallbridge
Rochdale


Dear Bessie
Thanks for your views they are very nice. It was good of you to send them. I suppose you will have had a grand day at Rochdale today. Annie and I will come over before long. If you don't object. From your affec. friend Nellie.



Written in 1906 and costing only half a cent to mail, this postcard is from England and was bought at Raphael Tuck & Sons' Real Photographic Post Card shop. The front of the postcard sports the image of Miss Adrienne Augarde. The card says art published to their majesties the King and Queen and that they are of celebrities of the stage. For more postcards by this company with Augarde on it, click here (mine is the second from the top, as you can see).

Unfortunately, I couldn't find the address listed on the postcard.

I am not very well pleased at you not answering my last card...

Mary C. Leitch
22 Princes St.
Govan


Dear Cathie
I will be down on Sat. I am not very well pleased at you not answering my last card. I am sorry that I could not get down any time as another was seriously ill. She was just gone(?) up on Sunday for the first. I hope I have an answer for this P.T. (Mary)



The postcard was sent on November 18th, 1909 with the postage costing a mere half cent. The card was produced by Millar & Lang Art Publishers and it was part of The "National" Series as well as Printed in Britain. The front depicts a picture of Miss Rita Tomkins; a celebrity or just an average citizen? I don't know.

If you click here, you can scroll down to find some information on Millar & Lang Art Publishers, the company who produced this postcard. They're from Glasgow, which is in the UK. To see a few other postcards printed by this company, you can click here. On a side note, the place where the card was sent from was also the place where the cards were sold from. Now, it's a different business, which I have included a modern-day (Google Map found) image of at the very bottom of this post.

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.

***

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.

  

King Edward Hotel, Toronto

Miss E. George
Gelert(?) - P.V.
Ontario


July 21/10
Dear Etta
       Mother and I were going out there Saturday. I sent Flora H a card telling her and now I am not sure whether the trains will be running since the strike is on. If you see her tell her. Good bye. Lillie Sherman.


P.S. If I get there I will go and see you. Maybe you will be at the station Saturday night.
                                                                                                                     Lillian




Postage on the stamp was one cent. My, my, how times have changed. Also, the front of the postcard is a picture of the King Edward Hotel in Toronto, which is still there today! And perhaps the coal strike Lillian speaks of is in reference to the Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910-1911, considering coal was used to power trains of the time? If you're interested, there's an article you can look at regarding it on Wikipedia here, and also a (potentially) more reliable source with less to say about it here.