Yardville Sand Company

This is a letter I recently received. I do not know where the Yardville Sand Company was located, strange there is no address on the letterhead. My thoughts were that the Yardville Sand Company may have become the Crosswicks Sand and Gravel Company, owned by Mr George Mozer. This was located where the Eagle Rock Apartments are now, on Church Street, in Groveville.

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Mr. Mozer later started, owned and operated the Yardville Concrete Company, which after growing to sell much more than just concrete it later became Yardville Supply.

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When I receive letters and envelopes like this My thoughts always turn to ask "Why does someone hold on to something like a letter or an envelope for one hundred years". What was the importance of this letter to be held onto this long.

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Another interesting point is the phone number, the Yardville Sand Company number was Bell Phone 2204-W and Mr Seabury's was Bell Phone 201-Y. I guess this is what you told the operator when you rang her up, because you sure were not dialing numbers in 1909.

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When I look at the quality of the typing of this letter it reminds me of my father typing reports and letters for church on his old L.C.Smith Typewriter, which I still have. If you made a mistake the delete button was called an ink eraser, then along came "White Out", but that was years later, that was not much better than the eraser. I remember most times if he wanted it to look professional he would start the letter over.