F.M. BARNUM, living near Merrill, has brought to the city a good supply of apples of the Yellow Transparent, Gravenstein and Red June varieties, which cannot be surpassed for texture and flavor. A peculiarity of this Red June apple is that it ripens in September, thus becoming a fall variety instead of a summer one, as is usual.
Here's the back of the card, sent from San Jose, California.
The message reads:
Dearest papa! -
Happy Birthday to you - I wish I could be there to help eat your birthday dinner. We are studying hard - Well may your 55th birthday be the happiest you have ever had is the wish of your loving daughter. Heaps of love + kisses.
Lena B.
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There must have been quite a series of giant produce postcards! The handwriting looks more like writing nowadays than 1909, I like the rec'd cancellation, it's always interesting to see how long the mail took back then.
ReplyDeleteOh my lord, giant almonds? You must have the world's largest collection of exaggeration postcards!
ReplyDeleteI really think they should be making these exaggeration cards now -- I saw some really giant tomatoes at the Farmers Market yesterday. This scene looks a little like the drive on Hwy 5 where you pass miles and miles of fruit trees -- including almond trees.
ReplyDeleteTasty but very fattening :)
ReplyDeleteI hope he had a giant nutcracker.
ReplyDeleteWe may have to pass on breaking open these babies! Great birthday greetings, probably the person was a fan of almonds!
ReplyDeleteWas her father an almond rancher? Giant almond rancher?
ReplyDeletei really find the received stamp cool!!!! goodness..that took less time than it took a card i sent my mom 12 years ago to get to her..it took 3 days and she was only 18 miles away!!! takes 2 days to send anything from 1 address in my city to another address in my city!
ReplyDeleteAttention Costco shoppers...an almond is available on aisle 4, 5, and 6.
ReplyDeleteWithout the label I would have guessed that was a carload of regular sized giant clams- probably not very fresh after being out in that sun though... I found the message to Papa very sweet, and hope he had many happy birthdays in later years that his daughter was able to attend.
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweet message. You have the best collection of exaggerated food cards!
ReplyDeleteOkay. You've got to stop with these large food postcards! You're only making the rest of us jealous! Haha. I would have never guessed to one day see one with almonds!
ReplyDeleteCool card.
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