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07-30-2008, 08:19
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| Junior Officer   |  Lost letter makes it way back home 60 years later LAWRENCE, Kan. - A letter detailing the mood after Truman defeated Dewey that was lost in the postal system for nearly 60 years recently turned up in the mailbox of a Kansas woman. Xan Wedel found the letter, postmarked Nov. 11, 1948, in her mailbox Friday. The envelope was stamped with "Return to sender" and "Found in supposedly empty mailbox." The letter was addressed to a Ruth Willisten in Rockfall, Conn., but it never reached its destination. It was sent by Gertrude Gilmore, who lived at Wedel's house in 1948. The letter states, "All Lawrence is in mourning since the election," during which Harry S. Truman beat Thomas E. Dewey for the presidency of the United States. The election would have taken place just days before the letter was postmarked. Gilmore also talks about her new Westinghouse electric refrigerator and the new pastor at Plymouth Congregational Church. Wedel said she thinks the Gilmore family built her home in 1890 and that Gertrude was one of their daughters. "It's impossible to really know what may or may not have happened," said Lawrence Postmaster Judy Raney. "No matter what, we always take it and go ahead and send it on." Wedel said she is preserving the letter. She photographed the envelope and four-page letter and scanned them into her computer. She said she now has interest in the family who built the home she's lived in for nearly four years. "It would be really interesting to see if they are still in town or have any descendants that would know the history behind her and who she was writing," Wedel said. Lost letter makes it way back home 60 years later - Yahoo! News |
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07-30-2008, 13:37
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| Monkey Mouse   | Re: Lost letter makes it way back home 60 years later I love stories like these. Funny, also, how politics hasn't changed a bit and people back then got upset at the winners of an election, in this case, Truman.
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07-30-2008, 20:33
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| Icing Queen   | Re: Lost letter makes it way back home 60 years later They should have made an effort to find the sender or sendee. I remember one of my grade school teachers crying because Barry Goldwater didn't win the election. Another teacher was comforting her.
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