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Page 916 - 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 914 - A red flag with a black center indicates that a storm of marked violence is expected . The pennants displayed with the flags indicate the direction of the wind: red, easterly (from northeast to south); white, westerly (from southwest to north).
Page 919 - 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 916 - Matter Embraces that known as domestic parcel post mail, and includes merchandise, farm and factory products, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions, and plants, books (including...
Page 914 - Two red flags with black centres, displayed one above the other, indicate the expected approach of tropical hurricanes, and also of those extremely severe and dangerous storms which occasionally move across the Lakes and northern Atlantic coast.
Page 913 - ... mile. When a vehicle is dismissed at a point more than two miles distant from the place at which it was engaged, or from the place in which it was when called, a charge of 20...
Page 916 - 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.
Page 915 - Japan, and 1» 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 of Panama. The domestic rates apply also to letters, but not to other articles, addressed to Great Britain, Ireland, and Newfoundland. All Mall Matter (except regular publications sent to subscribers), must be wholly prepaid. Letters, Postal Cards and "Post Cards...
Page 919 - The law signed by President Roosevelt (May 12, 1938) made November 11 a legal holiday In the District of Columbia, the Congress and the President having exclusive Jurisdiction over the District. The legal holidays In New York State are — New Years (Jan.
Page 916 - EMBRACES that known as domestic parcel post mail, and includes merchandise, farm and factory products, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions, and- plants, 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.