Word: postmistresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slight, dark-haired Mrs. Juanita S. Tucker is postmistress in the tiny hamlet of Christmas, Florida. Each Christmas for the past 15 years, thousands of letters came for postmarking and she lovingly stamped each with a small green Christmas tree cachet and the legend "Glory to God in the Highest." But then the Post Office Department informed her coldly that as a postal employee, she was not allowed by regulations to place "personal or unofficial indorsements" upon mail. Mrs. Tucker was crestfallen. Last week she wrote the Tampa Daily Times...
From a car following the truck stepped Mrs. Coffey herself, a grey-haired, motherly woman of 55, in a lacy black hat. She was ready to speak a few words, but found no crowd. "Ain't many Democrats around here," explained the postmistress. "I'm one." Candidate Coffey bleakly drank a Coca-Cola, then moved...
Mugwumps. In Democrat, Ky., the postmistress totted up, announced that Republicans outnumbered Democrats...
Rush. In Secane, Pa. (pop. 427), Postmistress Orvilla M. Hardican admitted that a few parcels posted a couple of years ago were still kicking around the post office, but promised to get them moving "as soon as she found the time...
Last week, like some two million other hard-pressed British mothers, Lillian Naylor went to the local post office, presented her order book and signed her name. Promptly Wisbech's postmistress (Lillian's widowed sister) handed her ?2 15s. ($11)-the Naylor family's weekly allotment under the new plan. Other mothers collected five shillings for each of their children under 14 except the eldest...