March Letters

Here are the last letters he received while he was in jail. What I found to be interesting was that some of these letters were written on Famous & Barr reception desk letter head. The building to my knowledge still exists today in Downtown St. Louis. 
An interesting fact about that Famous Barr/ Macy building was that in 1930, artist Fred Mizen had painted a Santa Claus for use in various print ads for the Christmas season, including the Saturday Evening Post. Santa was depicted as a department store Santa in a crowd drinking a bottle of Coke. The department store happened to be Famous Barr Co. in St. Louis, Mo. (a division of May Company). And, this particular depiction happened to be the worlds largest soda fountain at the time. And as a little girl many, many decades later my mother would take my brother and I to the Famous Barr "Winter Wonderland" exhibit as a special holiday treat. Just a side story.

Anyhow...

Here they are.
One other thing, I did post the last letter with these simply because of the letterhead even though it clearly stated she doesn't know the date :)

I really enjoyed reading these letters. I have some other random things that I will also be posting that was in the cigar box. It was great to see the penmanship of the time and the stationery, and just simply imagining the era. I hope that anyone else reading enjoys them too!

February's Letters

Here are February's letters:

These letters are from friends and family. Also, a letter written FROM Joe showing interest in used educational books. This is the only document I have in his own handwriting. 

He received letters from friends as far as Michigan. 

Notice the letters from his own shop letterhead :)