Word: postman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation has been complicated this year by the habit of residents of Gore and Smith Halls, of exchanging rooms overnight. This practice has disrupted the efforts of the janitors and of the postman...
...warehouses, the old town drowses now, lost in the hush of a dream. Wharves rot; rats squeak in deserted storerooms ; tiny pleasure-craft have replaced the tall schooners, rich Summer residents the bustling Tory merchants. However, quaint local traditions, local characters, still survive. There is the Poet Postman, unique Man of Letters, who for 30 years has delivered bills and dreamed of billet-doux, has written 1,000 poems, some of which have been published. He is painted in the exhibit by Orlando Ruland, who has also caught on canvas Daddy Scott, toymaker, who whittles wooden animals for Marblehead children...
...Poet Postman, unique Man of Letters...
Standing in front of Leavitt and Peirce's for half an hour, the reporter obtained the following statistics: felt hats 109, straw hats 79, no hats 28, caps 24. There was also one postman in uniform. The weather was warm and sunny...
...great burden upon the Federal budget which it now is. Harry S. New, who runs the postal system, stated last week: "I believe now, as I have believed ever since I have been connected with the department, that we carry parcels post too low." Everybody likes the postman and wants him to have a salary raise; but nobody wants to pay it-least of all the great interests which benefit by low parcels post rates. Senator Edge is half-father to a bill which would take $150,000,000 from the taxpayer and give it to the postman. This...