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Mabel Deal's 1894 Autograph Album

 

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md album cover.jpg (39202 bytes) Album Cover md album inside front.jpg (80505 bytes) Inside Front Cover
md album 1.jpg (48961 bytes) 28 Nov 1891: Friend Mabel… There is nothing like a good life.  Very truly, Leslie B. Hoisington md album 2.jpg (44873 bytes) 11 Dec 1891: “Only in dreams is the ladder thrown from the weary earth to the sapphire wall.  But dreams depart and visions fall; And the sleeper wakes in his pillow of stone.”  M.B. Tower
md album 3.jpg (94862 bytes) 29 Mar 1894: “To know what to do is good; To know how to do it is better; To know what, why and how is still better”.  Miss H. H. Whipple. md album 4.jpg (101253 bytes)  
md album 5.jpg (83189 bytes) 11 Oct 1892: Dear Mabel, Your friend and schoolmate:  Lottie Gibbs.  Three Rivers Michigan.  In the church. md album 6.jpg (89932 bytes) 2 Apr 1894: Compliments of your friend. Myrtle Leland.
md album 7.jpg (98319 bytes) 30 Mar 1894: Dear Mable: Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, and multiply each through endless years, one minute of heaven is worth them all.  Your friend Agnes Kirn.  Three Rivers Mich. md album 8.jpg (120217 bytes) Friend Mabel: Keep to the right as the law directs for such is the way of the road.  Keep to the right whoever expects Securely to carry life’s load.  Your friend Ada W. Garberg
md album 9.jpg (84255 bytes) 12 Oct 1892: Dear Mabel  Make sunshine wherever you go.  Ever your friend Faye Bigbee md album 10.jpg (103079 bytes) 29 Mar 1894: Friend Mabel,  “Fate may unearth clouds may lower, enemies may be combined.  If your trust in God is steadfast, he will help you, never mind.”  Mable Prism?
md album 11.jpg (105822 bytes) Friend Mabel, The snow had begun in the gleaming, and busily all the night.  Had been heaping field and high way with a silence deep and white.  Your friend Lucy Mash md album 12.jpg (83952 bytes) Friend Mabel  Remember me as a friend.  Lee McKey.
md album 13.jpg (59492 bytes) Friend Mable  Be not simple good But be good for something is the wish of your friend Effie Avery.  City March 29, 1994 md album 14.jpg (61212 bytes) Three Rivers Oct. 14, 1892.  Friend Mabel – Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in never falling but in rising every time we fall.  Your Friend Ella Henderson
md album 15.jpg (60296 bytes) March 29, 1894.  Dear Mabel – “Doing mean, dishonest deeds ever leads to sorrow;  Short the pleasure won today dark disgrace tomorrow.  “Doubt not doubt not; little sins are but beginning; Darker deeds do follow fast, deeper sorrow bringing.”  Nellie Dougherty. md album 16.jpg (65710 bytes) Dear Mable.  Friendship is a golden knot.  Tied by an angular hand.  Your friend Jennie Wooster.  Remember the sleigh
md album 17.jpg (51420 bytes) My Little Friend – Seen to do that which is right in the sight of God if you wish to unselfishness and contentment.  Sincerely Yours,______ Three Rivers Mich. md album 18.jpg (58522 bytes) Dear Mabel:  Always remember your friend and the fun we have had together.  Minnie A. Herndon.  Remember me.
md album 19.jpg (49807 bytes) Dear Mabel:  Friends are like books They should be few and well chosen.  Athol Thoms. md album 20.jpg (54851 bytes) Friend Mabel: A nobel deed is a step towards God.  Mary Grosking  March 20, 1893  Three Rivers, Mich.  Remember me.  A Friend.
md album 21.jpg (53209 bytes) Compliments and kind wishes of Belle Troy.  1892 – 11 – 4 md album 22.jpg (55647 bytes) Dear Mabel.  A noble deed is a step toward God.  Yours sincerely, Elizabeth Buck.
md album 23.jpg (60291 bytes) March 30 ’94 Compliments of your friend and school mate.  Charles S. Boyer.  Three Rivers Michigan md album 24.jpg (53029 bytes) Lizzie S. Pratt Fayetteville New York.  Three Rivers Michigan October 11, 1892.
md album 25.jpg (65586 bytes) Dear Mable:  I count this thing to be grandly true.  That a noble deed is a step towards God.  Lifting the soul from the common ____  To a purer air and a broader view.  L. Ferguson  Three Rivers Mich.  March 30, 1894. md album 26.jpg (54964 bytes) March 29, 1894.  Dear Mabel:  Compliments and best wishes of your friend.  Meta B. Mowrey.
md album 27.jpg (57622 bytes) March 29, ’94;  Friend Mabel  Compliments of Louie Constantine.  Three Rivers, Michigan.  Schoolmate.  Your Friend. md album 28.jpg (61098 bytes) Three Rivers Mich.  Oct 11, ’92;  Friend Mabel, As you look these pages through, you will think of childhoods friends, May I be classed among the few that will  prove true till the end.  Nora.  Written at school.
md album 29.jpg (58008 bytes) Compliments of your friend and schoolmate.  Clark W. md album 30.jpg (53768 bytes) Three Rivers, Mich March 30, ’94.  Friend Mable:  Do your duty that is best, leave unto the Lord the rest.  Your friend and schoolmate, Jessie Sweetman.  Forget me not.
md album 31.jpg (58444 bytes) Mabel  Compliments of your friend schoolmate  Frank Francisco.  March 30, 1894 md album 32.jpg (56594 bytes) Mabel – Kind words should always be spoken.  Your friend, Mabel Bond.  Three Rivers, Oct 11, 1892.
md album 33.jpg (58557 bytes) Mabel  May your joys be as deep as its ocean and your sorrows as light as its foam.  Your friend Gracie Baker.  Oct 12, 1892. md album 34.jpg (58257 bytes) Mabel, When you sail through life in your little bark canoe, Then think of me, And I’ll think of you.  Yours Sincerely, Gertrude H.  Oct 11, 1892.  Three Rivers Mich.
md album 35.jpg (42850 bytes) Compliments of Fred Messany.  Kalamazoo, Mich.  214 East Water St. md album 36.jpg (66172 bytes) Dear Mable  When my heart no more is beating And my face no more you see When beneath the ground I’m sleeping Will you Kindly think of me?   As Your Brother, Carl.  Three Rivers, Mich.  Jan 12, ‘95

 

 

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