Exchange chain letter (postcard). Hankies. Send three, three names, five copies. From the Sebacher hoard. US, 1940.

Marguerite Filling
  327 Huston Street
    St. Charles, Mo.

Miss Dorothy Wapelhorst
  705 N. Benton
    St. Charles, Mo.

Evelyn Jones
  710 Mc Donough
    St. Charles, Mo.

Within 3 days make 5 copies
leaving off the top name &
adding yours to the bottom.

Send a handkerchief to
the above names (3 in all).
You should receive yours
at once - 155 in all.

Its fun to see where they
come from.
  If you do not care to
continue the chain, please
notify the last name.

Government issue postal card mailed from Saint Charles, Missouri on June 15, 1940 to a St. Charles resident (name obscured  on my photocopy but known to be Dolores Sebacher). Text handwritten on back of card (vertical format). Lines preserved. From the James H. Patterson "Unmailable" collection.

This is one of nine linen exchange postcards (the Sebacher hoard) all received by Dolores Sebacher from April 1940 to April 1941.

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