Inspired by Pam Epstein, I was in a fun Antique store a couple weekends ago - in Santa Rosa, the railroad district, Stellaa! - and picked up this postcard:

Now, aside from the interesting context - we all know about spooning, I guess, it's Really interesting to me that it was mailed in 1912.  This would seem to have been racy then.

Here's the back:

 It's addressed to:

 R.M. Jackson, Carrollton, Ill.  R.R. #8,

if I'm reading that correctly.

The text reads:

"Your welcome card rec'd.  Why don't you write a letter + tell me about how you obtained my name.  Send photo + I will send mine.  Your friend, Florence." 

The stamp is a 1 Cent U.S. Postage stamp, green in color, with Washington's profile thereon.  The postage mark is a bit hard to make out. 

I can make out the date:  JUN 27, 11-30A, 1912.

Can't tell where it's from, though.  The city name begins with a WA-something; the state is either ND for North Dakota... or, what I assumed at first, it's for Indiana, which used to be denoted as IND.

I'm very aware that men out in the West were writing for wives - they were in pretty desperate straits back in the last 19th Century.  But 1912?  Might have been a man than had gone as west as he wanted and was still seeking a wife - to help him run a farm?

Any thoughts?