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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was Anita Kirkham Jann, who entered on Facebook.

Thanks to all who entered, see you on Monday.

Friday Giveaway: Ten Matched Classics - contest closed

Contest now closed, I will announce the winner in a moment.

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Back In Time

For this week's #ThrowbackThursday, here's a postcard I posted here on the site back in June of 2014:

Postcard from Tokyo, 1915:

Dear Friend,

I beg to thank you very much for your pretty card. I sent you a Japan news papers and which I beg of you to accept from. I will send you some Japan fairy tales if you send me a few United States fairy tales. I hope too that you will soon write to me.

Your loving friend

Found in "In The World's Attic" by Henrietta Sands Merrick. Published by G.P. Putnam, 1931.

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Small card from the Peerless Vending and Weighing Machine. This card features Betty Grable on one side, and the user's weight and fortune on the other (139 pounds as of July 28, unknown year, and "YOU believe in fair play and in giving the other person an equal chance")

If you've never seen these vintage fortune and weight telling machines, they look like this:

Found in "The Phantom Treasure" by Harriet Pyne Grove. Published by Saalfield, 1928.

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Alice In Christmasland

Christmas card.

Found in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll. Published by Henry Altemus, copyright page missing, circa 1900.

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