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Alma Fikerle postcard (front)

Dear Bro. Fred,

This is a picture of the boat fell over in the river and about 9 hundred people were drowned.  It was the Western Electric picnic.  Alma went but was going on the second boat so we were lucky.  There were a lot that were drown.

Chas.

Alma Fikerle postcard (back)

(Postcard written by Charles Fikerle, husband of Alma (Heise) Fikerle, to his brother-in-law Fred Heise.)

(Postcard donated by Lois Goleas, daughter of Fred Heise.)

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