This is an envelope from the series of letters that came from German relatives to Rika, Mrs August Heiden in the early 1920s. That is the hand written address that successfully moved the letter from rural Germany to rural America over 100 years ago.

M. August Heiden
Ide (Ida) Monro (Monroe) C. (County) Mich (Michigan
Nord (North) Americka (America)

While working on the 1995 Heiden book, I sent a large envelope of information to one of my aunts who had lived at the same address for many years. I accidentally transposed two of the numbers on the street address and the envelope was returned to me undelivered. The letter addressed as shown above came from Germany in the 1920s and was successfully delivered. Progress?