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...Topeka, Kan...
...little before Christmas one Benjamin Minturn of Chicago heard that, because of lagging stamp sales, the post office at Florence, Kan., his home town, would be reduced to third class, and that his old schoolmate, Postmaster Shamus O'Brien, might have his salary cut. To Schoolmate O'Brien he sent $1,000 for stamps, to make Florence seem like more of a post office (TIME, Dec. 30). Last week this kind deed was nullified. Postmaster O'Brien was informed from Washington that the $1,000 order would not count in his year's business. Postmasters were...
TIME, Dec. 30, p. 41, col. 1, at end, tells of the trials of Postmaster Shamus O'Brien, of Florence, Kan., and of his rescue by Ben Minturn of Chicago, who sent a check for $1,000 worth of stamps. TIME concludes: "Shrewd Friend Minturn could, of course, exchange his stamps for cash at the nearest post office...
...Tampas, Col., Mrs. Thomas Wheeler listened to the radio in her hotel lobby. On the program was a hog-calling contest being broadcast from Prairie View, Kan. At an especially eloquent call a pig broke out of its pen nearby and charged squealing into the lobby where it settled down and went to sleep...
...Florence, Kan., Shamus O'Brien, postmaster, was officially told that he must sell $800 worth of stamps by Jan. 1 or have his salary cut and have his office degraded to third-class. Citizens despaired; a third-class post office means no city mail delivery. In Chicago Ben Minturn, onetime Florentine schoolmate of O'Brien, read of his friend's predicament, wrote a letter, enclosed a check for $1,000, ordered $900 in 2 cent stamps, $100 in 5 cent stamps, saved the day. Shrewd Friend Minturn could, of course, exchange his stamps for cash...