Word: postalized
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...reason why most of the literary instruction gyp games are not wiped out is because it takes either an expert or someone who has been stung to see where the gyp is. Evidently federal postal authorities never write fiction...
...Progressive restriction of the postal savings system as the general banking system is strengthened...
...made his washerwoman bride, Eilly Orrum. Queen of the Comstock. Its abandoned workings, bought in 1872 for $100,000, in four years yielded $100,000,000 to its four new owners-Irishmen William S. O'Brien, James C. Flood, James G. Fair and John W. Mackay-father of Postal Telegraph's Clarence Mackay. In 1907 a fall of rock disclosed a $1,000,000 pocket of gold and silver. In 1912 another $1,250,000 pocket was found 2,500 ft. underground. But the Comstock's surprises have been growing scarcer, Virginia City more & more depopulated...
...employes. One of every 20 applicants for Federal service is found to have had a criminal record. New York City required fingerprints of its civil service employes when it was found that one applicant was taking the physical examinations, a second the mental examination, a third the job & pay. Postal Savings requires fingerprints of all depositors. Many banks do likewise for illiterate depositors, foreign draft buyers and safety deposit vault renters. Many corporations (notably insurance companies) fingerprint job applicants. Some hospitals are beginning to footprint newborn babes for identification...
Since the beginning of the War, great numbers of Eastern Jews have emigrated from Poland across Germany to the Palatinate, a province between French Alsace and the southern Rhine. Last week Palatinate Commissioner Birker issued an order freezing all postal savings and bank accounts of Jews in the province until their outstanding debts had been paid. This was explained as a move to prevent a wholesale dodging of obligations by a Jewish hegira over the French Border...