1933 QSL card to Loring Daniels from Succasunna, N.J.

It has been — are we sitting down? — 10½ years since my last post about the QSL cards of Loring A. Daniels (1907-1995). When I last wrote about Daniels and his QSLs in February 2016, Barack Obama was still president, Donald Trump had just picked up his first GOP primary win in New Hampshire, and Bartolo Colon was still an active Major League Baseball player, who, at age 42, had never hit a home run. (That would change in a few months.)

You can read my 10-year-old research about Daniels' life in that February 2016 post. Pretty obviously, I haven't done any additional work since then. I guess I get too easily distracted by the next pretty thing.

But for now I still have a small stack of QSLs that were mailed to Daniels, mostly in the 1920s and 1930s, when he lived in Delaware and before he moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Featured today is a QSL that Daniels received from Jack Lee (W3CWG) of Succasunna, New Jersey, in autumn 1933. (The ham radio contact was made on Sept. 29 and the QSL is postmarked Oct. 2.) Succasunna is an unincorporated community in Morris County that takes its name from the Lenape peoples. It was, according to Wikipedia, the location of the world's first electronic switching public telephone exchange.

As for the card, I love the illustration of the ham radio operator and wonder what "The Voice of Prosperity" printed above it, right in the rough middle of the Great Depression, means. I'm also super curious about the red stamp that's been applied to both front and back and states "3CNS-3CWG SPECIAL $8.50." If any radio enthusiasts or historians could provide some insight in the comments, I'd greatly appreciate it.