Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There will be a change in air mail postage rates when the Government-operated routes are taken over by private contractors. The proposed plan would fix a flat rate of ten cents per half ounce or fraction thereof. This basis would greatly reduce charges on long hauls, but would increase the postage for short distances on letters or packages weighing more than half an ounce...
...When Congress reconvenes it will be asked to authorize the em- ployment of organized armed guards to protect the mails. Such guards would take the place of the marines now on duty. An appropriation of $1,000,000 will also be required to purchase armored mail trucks. President Coolidge has already called for bids on 250 trucks with bullet-proof drivers' cabs...
...concert will be part of the annual entertainment provided preliminary to the football game with Princeton. Tickets will cost $2.50, $2, and $1.50, and may be obtained at Kent's Book Store on Massachusetts Avenue. Mail orders will be filled at the office of the University Glee Club in the Music Building...
...soon as Congress convenes, the Postmaster General will ask for special appropriations to build more powerful railway mail cars and armored trucks...
Quack Coffee, now 67 years old, has been "practicing" for 44 years. The Keokuk (Iowa) College of Physicians & Surgeons gave him his diploma in 1881. He was licensed to practice medicine in 1897, 29 years ago. His first "game" was the curing of eye diseases by mail. At Des Moines, he built himself a $100,000 stone home with turrets, porte-cochère and all conveniences. This established business Samuel Hopkins Adams wrecked for him by the "Great American Fraud" articles in Collier's of 1905-07. Exposer Adams called Quack Coffee "an Eminent Thief and Pre-eminent...