It's Only Fido

 

A bit of comic relief.  I have no idea how color is added to these old, photo-based postcards.  The photographic elements can be clearly seen, but the added color doesn't seem to be in the right place.  Perhaps some sort of offset printing process. 

So, this card was mailed and there is a message written on the back. "Rec. your card.  Glad to hear you are well.  Take care of yourself.  Love, Betty" It was mailed to "Mr. C. C. Barker, Box 80, Station 6, Toledo, Ohio."  And the postmarks, one from the sending post office, and one from the receiving. "CORRY, PA  5 PM, MAY 6, 1924" "TOLEDO, OHIO STA. 6., 430 PM, MAY 17, 1924."  

Corry is in Erie County, and not all that far from Toledo.  I guess the mails were slower back then. 

Young Hoyt Raymond

I haven't posted any cabinet cards for awhile, so what the hell, why not.  Much to my surprise, I was able to dig up a bit of info on young Hoyt Raymond.  He was born Hoyt Jackson Raymond on December 14, 1886 at Child's Farm in Wayne County, Pennsylvania.  Wayne County is in northeast Pennsylvania, but he grew up in Corry, the second largest community in Erie County, on the other side of the state.  On September 17, 1910, he married Lottie Berry Munger, who was born in nearby Columbus, PA on July 18, 1886.  Hoyt died on September 24, 1951.  Lottie died March 14, 1970.  They had at least one child, a son, Harold Hoyt Raymond, born in 1919, died in 2007.  And that's it.  I have no idea what any of them did for a living, if any of them went to college, fought in a war, or if Hoyt and Lottie had more kids.