St. Patrick's Day postcards and Old Greenfield pctures

The message on this postcard was written in code. Obviously, the sender did not want the postman to read the message. Can anyone crack the code and share it with us?

Harry Ennis’s great great grandfather was Henry Ennis who owned a coal yard on South Fifth Street between Pine Street and the B&O railroad. The site is now an empty lot.

The Harper House Hotel was opened in 1902 on the northwest corner of Washington and Jefferson Streets. It was known far and wide as the premier hotel in Greenfield at the time. The Corner Healthmart Pharmacy occupies the corner storefront where the S. Heidingsfeld & Son Menswear store is in this photo. Notice the two-story addition along Washington Street at the rear of the hotel. This was later torn down and is a parking lot now. Also notice the steeple of the Baptist Church in the background.

Here is a closeup of the S. Heidingsfeld & Son Menswear store in the storefront now occupied by the Corner Healthmart Pharmacy. Heidingsfeld’s began in 1885 and moved to this location in 1902. Oscar Heidingsfeld, the son, sold the business in 1934. The first man on the left is Edwin Raymond Ennis the grandfather of Harry Ennis who donated the photograph. Edwin went on to start a menswear store in 1935 which became Ennis Menswear and was in business until December 1966. Two weeks after selling the business Edwin Ennis died of an aneurysm. Notice the reflection of people in the window on the left side of the building.

Here is a photo of the Murphy Grocery located at 52 South Washington. The location was the building where the Paint Creek Veterinary Clinic is now. The owner was Miss Cora Murphy. Notice the container labeled oysters. The sidewalk along Mirabeau at the left of the photo was covered in snow so it was probably safe to keep the oysters outside. The grocery only occupied the corner of the clinic while the Lyric Theater was in the other half of the building. Notice the movie poster on the theater at the right of the photo. “The Romance Photograph” came out in 1914 staring Florence Lawrence. In the movie, Miss Lawrence played a wayward girl who falls in love with the handsome image of a burglar she sees in a photograph.