This is a repost of a collection of Austin New Year’s Postcards first on the Halfway Brook site starting in 2011.
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![1913-Happy-New-Year](http://halfwaybrook.com/wp-content/uploads/1913-Happy-New-Year.gif)
![1914-New-Year-A](http://halfwaybrook.com/wp-content/uploads/1914-New-Year-A.gif)
![1931-new-year-bill](http://halfwaybrook.com/wp-content/uploads/1931-new-year-bill.jpg)
In 1937 Aida Austin sent this card to her brother Ell Austin. On the back she wrote the first verse of a poem by Sallie Ward Barns (1836–1919).
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![aida-austin-card-poem-1937](http://halfwaybrook.com/wp-content/uploads/aida-austin-card-poem-1937.jpg)