Clark's Boston Blue Book

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1919
 

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Page 827 - Domestic mail matter Includes matter deposited In the mails for local delivery, or for transmission from one place to another within the United States, or to or from or between the possessions of the United States.
Page 831 - New Year's Day (January 1). Washington's Birthday (February 22) . Memorial Day (May 30). Independence Day (July 4). Labor Day (First Monday In September).
Page 831 - Two red flags with black centers, displayed one above the other, indicate the expected approach of a tropical hurricane, or one of those extremely severe and dangerous storms which occasionally move across the Lakes and northern Atlantic coast.
Page 828 - Parcels weighing 8 ounces or less containing books, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions, and plants, 1 cent for each 2 ounces or fraction thereof, regardless of distance.
Page 828 - Parcels weighing more than 8 ounces containing books, seeds, plants, etc., parcels of miscellaneous printed matter weighing more than 4 pounds, and all other parcels of fourth-class matter weighing more than 4 ounces are chargeable, according to distance or zone, at the pound rates shown in the following table, a fraction of a pound being considered a full pound: Weijrht 1st zone 2— S3 3d zone 150 to 300 miles. Rate. 9» 6th zone, 1,000 to 1.400 miles.
Page 827 - ... transmission to or from the United States or its possessions and officers or members of crews of United States naval vessels, and to or from the United States postal agency at Shanghai, China, and to officers and men of the United States Navy in the United States Naval Hospital at Yokohama, Japan, and is divided into four classes: First, Second, Third, Fourth (Parcel Post). — Domestic rates and conditions, with certain exceptions, apply to mail addressed to Canada, Cuba, Mexico, and the Republic...
Page 823 - To be correct his wife should do likewise, but as confusion sometimes arises because of the mother and wife having the same name the wife often prefers to keep the Jr. INFANTS' CARDS It is a pleasing custom to send a small card announcing the birth of a child. The full name is on the card, also the date of its birth in the lower left hand corner.
Page 828 - Newfoundland, at the United States Postal Agency at Shanghai (China), in the Philippine Islands, or the following islands in the West Indies: Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Trinidad, and Tobago and Virgin Islands. For Orders From $ 0.01 to $ 2.50 3 cents.
Page 828 - ... books (including catalogs), miscellaneous printed matter weighing more than four pounds, and all other mailable matter not embraced in the first, second and third classes.
Page 368 - ... 117 Mr & Mrs Frederick E Snow Mr William T Snow 119 Mr & Mrs Henry Lefavour 121 Mr & Mrs Arthur E Childs Miss Alice Muriel Childs 125 Miss Sophie Moen 127 Dr & Mrs John W Farlow 131 Mr & Mrs Edwin U Curtis Miss Penelope Curtis...

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