There was a pencilled enigmatic message on the divided back of the card that presumably meant something to Mrs. Warren:
"Find out."
The Bombarding of Izmit
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 26th. June 1920, Royal Navy battleships from the United Kingdom aided the Greek invasion of Turkey by bombarding the city of İzmit, a base of operations for Turkish nationalists.
A dispatch from Greece reported that 1,000 Turks had been killed.
Lou Gehrig
Also on the 26th. June 1920, Lou Gehrig, a 17-year old player for the New York School of Commerce high school team, got his first publicity.
This was for his baseball ability in the "World Series of High Schools" tournament held at Cubs Park in Chicago.
In front of 10,000 spectators, Gehrig hit a grand slam home run over the right field wall in the ninth inning for a 12 to 6 win over Chicago's Lane Tech High School.
Several newspapers, including the New York Daily News, misspelled the future Hall of Famer's name in their reports.
-- Lou Gehrig's Life and Death
On the 27th. September 1923 Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees ('The Iron Horse') hit the first of his 493 home runs.
Coincidentally he hit the last of his home runs on the same date 15 years later.
On 19th. June 1939, his 36th. birthday, Lou was told at the Mayo Clinic that he had Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
However at his wife Eleanor's request, the gloominess of the prognosis in terms of symptoms and life expectancy was kept from him.
To this day, the rare condition of ALS is commonly referred to in the US as Lou Gehrig's Disease.
-- Lou Gehrig's Retirement Speech
On the 4th. July 1939 Lou gave his famous retirement speech. Here is the major part of it:
"For the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got.
Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for 17 years, and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.
Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with even one of them for a day?
When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift - that's something.
When everybody down to the groundskeepers and the boys in white coats remember you with trophies - that's something.
When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that is something.
When you have a father and mother who work all their lives so that you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.
When you have a wife who's been a tower of strength and showed more courage than you ever dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.
So I close in saying that I might have got a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for. Thank you".
The opening part of the speech was quoted in the 1993 film 'Sleepless in Seattle'.
-- Other ALS Sufferers
Other sufferers of ALS include Stephen Hawking (1942 - 2018 ) and David Niven (1910 - 1983).
-- The Death and Legacy of Lou Gehrig
Lou died in the Bronx aged 37 on the 2nd. June 1941 without knowing that, 27 weeks later to the day, the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbour and awake a sleeping giant.
Lou may be gone, but he is far from forgotten - in 1969 the Baseball Writers' Association of America voted Gehrig the greatest first baseman of all time.
in 1999, nearly sixty years after his death, he was the leading vote-getter on the Major League Baseball All-Century Team, chosen by fans.
A monument in Gehrig's honour, originally dedicated by the Yankees in 1941, currently resides in Monument Park at Yankee Stadium.
The Lou Gehrig Memorial Award is given annually to the MLB player who best exhibits Gehrig's integrity and character.
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