12081600 | Envelope from the Missouri Secretary of State Probably contained CC's permission to operate an automobile in 1911. |
12081601 | Back of envelope showing postmark. |
12081602 |
"Owner's Certificate of Registration."
The "1891" matches the number penciled in on the envelope. CC owned a 30 horsepower Rio in 1915. You can even look it up in state records, if they exist. I am going to try to find a picture of a Rio of 1915. I have no picture of HIS rio, but I still would like to know what one looked like. It's a "Touring Car". Need to know what that means, too. |
12081603 | Back of the registration above. Rules of the Road. |
12081604 |
CC's business card. The only sample of it I have. Don't know what year.
Notice that CC spelled his name "Hoffman" at the time. I assume he proofed
the card before he printed it, and therefore agreed with the spelling.
The three digit phone number means that there were less than a thousand subscribers in 1911, or whenever the card was printed. And "long distance" was manually done by an operator with plugs and cords, not by dialing. I wonder what the leading apostrophe means? |
12081621 | CC paid taxes to the State of Missouri for his auto. |