“Greetings from Kansas City, Mo.” Reads this old postcard, in color, picturing a 1907 U.S. mail carrier with jaunty hat and blue suit. He carries an armload of mail and has a heavy load in the U.S. mailbag slung over his shoulder. The mail bag is a separate attached item and not part of the printed picture. It actually contains a take-out folder of 12 choice postcard views of Kansas City, each about an inch in length. The miniature postcards, printed in black and white in New York city, picture the Public Library; the Christian Church on Independence Avenue’; the First Church, Christian Science’ the Willis Wood Theatre; the Scarritt Building; Main Street looking north from 12th; Central High School; the Baltimore Hotel; the Bank of Commerce Building; the Coates House Hotel; the R.A. Long Building; and Loretto Academy on 39th Street. The little postcards depicting the pride of Kansas City, hung loosely in the brown U.S. mail sack, were delivered to South Carolina safely and without damage, a tribute to the postal system of the day. The card was mailed to Miss Mary Bush of Riley, S.C., in Greenwood County, with a one-cent green postage stamp. It came to us from the effects of the late Dr. Will R. Eubank, well-known ophthalmologist in Kansas City from 1948 until 1973. Kansas City Times, April 19, 1985.
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