Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sales of mail order houses to farmers have experienced a considerable increase, and now reports are that agricultural sections are beginning to purchase binders, weeders and other farm implements. On the other hand, the wheat farmer's hard experience since 1920 has restrained and will restrain him from land speculation, and the purchasing of more luxuries. Western bankers doubt that even a continuance of the present prosperity of the wheat belt would insure a complete cleaning up of old debts, yet the retirement of a greater part of them this year is confidently predicted...
...Mail made a profit of over $500 on the first night mail trip from San Francisco to New York. $2,308.48 was paid for more than 8,000 pieces of mail and at 66? a mile, which is the average figure for cost of flying operation, the Government realized $539.68 profit. There is no doubt the service can pay for itself-if the first great burst of business due to curiosity and sentiment does not fall...
...Mail does not insure its ships. Frank Yager, flying from Cheyenne, Wyo., was bruised, and his plane was wrecked by a hurricane, which forced him to land at Chappell...
...drastic cuts in wages and salaries have been avoided, and this public buying of general merchandise has not been severely affected. Indeed, with the better conditions on the farms, mail order sales have made a good showing...
...DISEASE AND RAISED A PHYSICAL CULTURE FAMILY ($500 Prize Story.) THE BODY BEAUTIFUL A MILLION BEING TREATED BY CHIROPRACTIC-RUSSIAN BRIDES AND GROOMS SIGN HEALTH CERTIFICATES WILL BOBBED HAIR MAKE BALD WOMEN ? YES! It was announced that Mr. Macfadden had bought the plant of the old New York Evening Mail, there to publish a tabloid daily newspaper featuring material along the lines of True Stories and Physical Culture. It was understood that this sheetlet, as yet unknown by name, would make no attempt to compete with other Manhattan papers in the presentation of news...