Veil in which I was born

Found in an old Bible: "June 17/27. The attached is a veil in which I was born. My father has kept this veil in the large family Bible and sent it to me in 1927." This note is handwritten on memo paper from T. H. Charter, Manufacturers Agent. I can't read the whole signature, but the last name sure looks like Charter.

Enclosed with the note was a small piece of what looked like folded glassine paper. However, upon internet research, I've learned that some babies are born with a caul or veil, meaning that some of a membrane remains on his or her head after birth. So, perhaps what I thought was paper is actually a remnant of this membrane. Or not. Would a membrane hold together and age like this?

Toxin-Antitoxin

CERTIFICATE OF TOXIN-ANTITOXIN TREATMENT
Charlotte, Mich., Feb. 7, 1925
THIS is to Certify:
That Dorthy Worwich was successfully given toxin-antitoxin treatment for diphtheria on Feb. 7, 1925.
C. D. Hufer, M.D.

To prevent a busted party

Party flyer found inside a 1981 yearbook from Cascade High School in Everett, Washington.

Do You Have Flat Feet?

This playlist was found inside a vintage saxophone music book circa 1940s.

Return to Sender

No letter enclosed in this envelope postmarked 1951.

Forwarded

This 1914 envelope made quite the journey: North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana and Iowa. No letter was enclosed when I found it.

The Wedding Feast

Thelma Overstreet's Sunday School lesson card from Sarcoxie, Missouri, August 23, 1914.

Anywhere Day or Night

This 1910 receipt is for a photo negative/print of a house in West Seattle. Note that Frank H. Nowell was the official photographer for Seattle's 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.

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War Chest

Carmen Mattox, a student at Queen Anne High School in Seattle, pledged $4.00 to the War Chest Campaign in 1942. Adjusted for inflation, that would be $52.00 today.

Hate you

Scratch that. Let’s buy a new television!

Borrower’s name

From an ex-library copy of More All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor.

Don’t forget the crab apple

In the spring of 1958, Mrs. Kaplan of Medina apparently decided her yard needed a little sprucing up. After spending $31.00 cash at Strander Nurseries in South Seattle, no doubt her place looked lovely with the addition of peach, plum, cherry and crab apple trees.