Link to last year's post, which contains some lovely cards and transcription of the messages on their reverses.

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One year today. My sincere gratitude.



217 posts or .59 posts per day.

I've got two differing sets of stats so I'll be approximate, but in no way am I rounding up.
Looky:
greater than 3 Million Hits
greater than 1 Hundred Thousand Visits
greater than 15 Thousand Unique Visitors

Approximate percentages of people who favorited the site went from less than 10% to greater than 40% (mirroring the volume growth)- thanks, favoriters! Ctrl+D is your friend!

Top referrers (in no particular order):
RYP at Twilightzone
COOP!'s Positive Ape Index
Those Rascals at PCL Link Dump bringers of gourmet everything.
Mr. Bali Hai at Eye of the Goof
The BoingBoingers
Mr. X from the much hunted Xtabay's World
The Compelling Visual Library that is Martin Klasch
Schmutzie - 2nd best damn blog in Canada
PK's Bibliodyssey
the above is purely stats based so if I love ya but you're not listed - feel it.

Some posts:
1st post (skip it, actually)
Smashed Nokia
The King Cake Baby
The Heritage Village Map
Bend me, Shape Me
My Mexican Lobby Card
Forbidden 1984
Matts & Zippy
Architecture & Ornament
Early Warhol
Peeni Walli
How to Drown
Lex10 in L.A.
Birds of NZ
Decals
Mark Ryden Vids
Sparky Watts
Pompeiiopticon
Saucy Accupressure
How to Draw a Circle
Who is Lex10?
Yard Haiku
Robot Theatre - Royale With Cheese
Revisiting the Greatest Nancy Panel Ever Drawn
Alan Vega
Origami QTVR
Crispy Masks
Joseph Laux Wallpaper
Bowie on Extras
Nancy 1
Uncle Wiggily
205 Serial Killer Names
Man Eats Dogs
Magic Wand
Through The Viewfinder
Sad Thanksgiving Cards
Champagne Muzzles
Chard
Nancy 2
La Virgen de Xtabay
Ali Baba
Xmas Robot Theatre Message
Katamari Earrings
WET Magazine


and let's not forget items from Today's Sunbeam - yes, that's actually the name and yes- it's a real daily newspaper:
Hog Maws
Windowless Shopping
Procto-advice
She's cheap - but she can act

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FROM THE GLYPHJOCKEY COLLECTION:


Link to larger image at pictures.

By the end of October 1918, 1,500 Ohioans had died of the Spanish Flu.

To Mrs. B.J. Mallernee
Freeport, Ohio RFD
Postmark: Cadiz, OH
Nov 24th 1918
"Dear Cousin
I have looked till my eyes are sore for you people to pay us a visit this summer but no came. Have you had the flue yet. Mae had a siege of it here but Frank and was not very bad. It is on the decline in and about Deersville. Verry bad at Bowerston now three young men of the same family buried yester. Well the war is over and Ohio gone dry ain't that something great to be. [unreadable] bro Billie had a terrible siege this summer of Typhoid Feever. I had to be up there quite a good bit. Belle's little girl died. Bille is talking of coming down to Harrison Co. to live. Give my love to all. Come when you can and write soon. Your cousin Mrs. Frank Smith"







To Mrs. Ethel E. Ross
111 West Main St.
Middletown, NY
1916
"Dear Ethel
I hope you will forgive me for not ans- your last card but I have been very busy. Our silk petticoats must have taken wings and flew away and taken our dinner with it. I am about sick abed with a cold. I guess you mother is going to stay away all winter. When are you coming home. Hope you have a nice Thanksgiving. Yours with love mrs. ELN"






Postmark Coldwater Michigan
To Mr. Carl Clark
Boyne Falls, Mich
November 23rd 1920
"Good morning cousin Carl and all how are you a doing at your end of the state these days, Pa and I who have been keeping bachelor's hall for a while expect to drop our job for Pa expects to go over and Ma from the hospital to morrow
Goodby from Clayton"





Now go and give thanks!!

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