Story of Our Post Office: The Greatest Government Department in All Its PhasesA. M. Thayer & Company, 1892 - 1034 sider Postgeschichte ; Gesetzgebung ; Personal ; Postbetrieb ; Postbeförderung ; Bahnpost ; Internationale Beziehungen Post ; Briefmarken ; Philatelie ; Amerika ; USA. |
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... sacks ; spends an hour or two at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing , where the revenue stamps and the greenbacks are manufactured ; rides to the top of the Monument and looks down upon a city of a quarter of a million people nestling ...
... sacks ; spends an hour or two at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing , where the revenue stamps and the greenbacks are manufactured ; rides to the top of the Monument and looks down upon a city of a quarter of a million people nestling ...
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... sacks of mail , sorting them between stations , and laying them down at proper destinations . Over six thousand men , full of intelligence and pluck , are on their feet swinging to the motion of the train , exposed to danger , deprived ...
... sacks of mail , sorting them between stations , and laying them down at proper destinations . Over six thousand men , full of intelligence and pluck , are on their feet swinging to the motion of the train , exposed to danger , deprived ...
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... sacks , a sack for each state . There is matter enough for that . The mail for California on this particular line between New York and Chicago is distributed between Albany and Syracuse . The mail for the southern part of the state , as ...
... sacks , a sack for each state . There is matter enough for that . The mail for California on this particular line between New York and Chicago is distributed between Albany and Syracuse . The mail for the southern part of the state , as ...
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... , and in addition forty or fifty sacks of Dakota and Montana papers . To handle this mass of correspondence there are six men in addition to the clerk in charge . The second clerk handles. 60 THE STORY OF OUR POST OFFICE .
... , and in addition forty or fifty sacks of Dakota and Montana papers . To handle this mass of correspondence there are six men in addition to the clerk in charge . The second clerk handles. 60 THE STORY OF OUR POST OFFICE .
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... sacks , or pouches , and not otherwise , clerks employed exclu- sively on steamboats , and transfer clerks at junction points where not more than two such clerks are employed , are exempt from exami- nation . All other places can be ...
... sacks , or pouches , and not otherwise , clerks employed exclu- sively on steamboats , and transfer clerks at junction points where not more than two such clerks are employed , are exempt from exami- nation . All other places can be ...
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Side 1000 - The powers thus granted are not confined to the instrumentalities of commerce, or the postal service known or in use when the Constitution was adopted, but they keep pace with the progress of the country, and adapt themselves to the new developments of time and circumstances.
Side 634 - All matter otherwise mailable by law, upon the envelope or outside cover or wrapper of which, or any postal card upon which, any delineations, epithets, terms, or language of an indecent, lewd, lascivious, obscene, libelous, scurrilous, defamatory, or threatening character, or calculated by the terms or manner or style of display and obviously intended to reflect injuriously upon the character or conduct of another...
Side 412 - It must be originated and published for the dissemination of information of a public character, or devoted to literature, the sciences, arts, or some special industry...
Side 534 - ... of any kind offering prizes dependent in whole or in part upon lot or chance, or containing any list of...
Side 584 - Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give away, distribute, supply, or furnish or procure for unlawful use any counterfeit or spurious coin...
Side 660 - I've labored long and hard for bread For honor and for riches, But on my corns too long you've tred You fine-haired sons of bitches. Let come what will, I'll try it on, My condition can't be worse, And if there's money in that box, 'Tis munny in my purse. —Black Bart, the Po8.
Side 534 - ... for the purchase of any ticket, tickets, or part thereof, or of any share or any chance in any such lottery or gift enterprise, shall be carried in the mail or delivered at or through any...
Side 584 - ... or by dealing or pretending to deal in what is commonly called "green articles," "green coin," "green goods," "bills," "paper goods,
Side 637 - shall be held to mean all bonds, certificates of indebtedness, national bank currency, coupons, United States notes, Treasury notes, gold certificates, silver certificates, fractional notes, certificates of deposit, bills, checks, or drafts for money, drawn by or upon authorized officers of the United States...
Side 146 - An Act to provide for ocean mail service between the United States and foreign ports, and to promote commerce,' so long as such vessels shall in all respects comply with the provisions and requirements of said Act.