I Don't Care If You Can't Write Fancy

I'm home with my daughter today, so I am sharing a classic from the archives:

I Don't Care If You Can't Write Fancy

These are lists from Dora Lee Club of Chicago, which appears to be some kind of pen pal or dating club. Each sheet has a short "headline" from someone looking for a pen pal.

The envelope is dated May 12, 1959. Here are some of the headlines:

*name removed* Auburndale, Fla. Age 36 LIFE IS FUNNY. YOU NO DOUBT CAN REMEMBER TIMES IN YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU WERE HAPPY, JUST DOING NOTHING. I'M THAT WAY I CAN BE HAPPY AND CONTENTED AS LONG AS I HAVE SOMEONE TO JUST CARE FOR ME.

*name removed* Syracuse, N. Y. Age 41 I WANT A LETTER; I DON'T CARE IF YOU CAN'T WRITE FANCY. MAYBE YOUR HEART IS IN THE RIGHT PLACE; I KNOW MINEE IS AND I'M SINCERE AND LONELY. YOU WON'T BE SORRY, TRY ME.

*name removed* Philadelphia 23, Pa. Age 29 NEVER LET IT BE SAID THAT TWO CAN LIVE AS CHEAP AS ONE. BUT ONE THING FOR SURE IN THIS OLD WORLD. TWO CAN LIVE HAPPIER THAN ONE. IT'S HECK TO BE LONELY.

*name removed* Paducah, Ky. Age 47 I LIKE A MAN THAT LIKES TO EAT. I GUESS MY MAN WOULD GET FAT AS IT PLEASES ME TO GET IN MY KITCHEN AND COOK A MEAL THAT MELTS IN THEIR MOUTH. DROP ME A LINE. -Click to enlarge photos-

August 17, 1914

Copy of the "Thrice-A-Week World" newspaper from August 17, 1914.

Found in "Essentials of Geography" published by The American Book Company, 1920.

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Talkin' Baseball

Small photograph, it appears to be of a few folks posing for a portrait mid-baseball game.

On the back is some writing in pencil:

Masonville
"Old 7 ??? Day"
July 4th 1936

Found in "Dance of the Machines" by Edward J. O'Brien. Published by Macaulay, 1929.

Here's a large, cleaned-up version of the photograph:

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Crumb Is A Strange Word

 Recipe for "Chocolate Dessert" -

2 C pwd. sugar
2 sq. chocolate
1/2 C butter
1/2 C nut meats
3 eggs yolks, beaten
3 egg whites, beaten stiff

Cream sugar and butter and melted choc.
Add 1 tsp. vanilla and nuts
Add egg yolks and fold into egg whites

Roll one box vanilla wafers to crumb, line bottom of 9 x 13 cake pan. Save some crumbs for top

Put mixture on crumbs, then 1 qt. vanilla ice cream on top of that.
Add remaining crumbs

Found in "New Trends in Table Settings" by Lucy Staley. Published by Hearthside, 1968.

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Year Of The Dragon

 Another cloth patch, this one has no writing or markings.

Found in "Storm Over the Land" by Carl Sandburg. Published by Harcourt and Brace, 1942.

EDIT: From Donald Fuller Drake via Facebook:

That is a post WWII era 'Liberty Cuff'. These were surreptitiously sewn on the inside of the Dress Blue Enlisted Jumpers' cuffs and worn unbuttoned and rolled back while on liberty. Totally unauthorized, but generally tolerated.

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Frieda's

Bumper sticker advertising Frieda's Village Inn, Delhi New York.

Found in "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel" by Virginia Lee Burton. Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1967, later reprint.


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Looks Like Meat's Back On The Menu

Huge menu (measures 20" by 24") from Cactus Ted's Famous Ranch House, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Found in "Ladies' Home Journal Book of Interior Decoration" by Elizabeth Halsey. Published by Curtis, 1954.

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Changes

Large photo postcard.

On the front is printed

Seasons Greetings
Rev. and Mrs. O. B. Hill

On the reverse side is written

Main St. Baptist Church
Otego NY

As some of you know, the bookshop is located in Otego, so I took a little drive. Here's what the church looks like on this cold morning:

Quite different.

Found in "Old Pewter" by N. Hudson Moore. Published by Garden City Publishing, 1933.

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