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...same correspondence to the same destination. The U. S. Post Office Department has ordered several rate increases on foreign first class mail as of Sept. 1. To Britain and the Irish Free State letter postage has been upped 3? for the first ounce, in an attempt to reduce the postal deficit and bring first-class revenue closer to actual transportation costs. If the Seattlite thought he could beat this letter postage increase by using a postcard, he would find that on it too the rate had been jacked up from 2? to 3?. If his London correspondent journeyed to Spain...
Spain is a member of the Pan-American Postal Union. Under that international convention U. S. letters carry only 2? postage to South and Central American countries. It costs no more to mail a letter from Duluth, Minn, to Punta Arenas. Chile, near Cape Horn than it does from Nogales, Ariz, across the street to Nogales, Mexico. Only South American exceptions to the 2? rate are Dutch and French Guiana, which, as non-members of -the Pan-American Postal Union, require 5? postage...
Fair and John W. Mackay, father of Postal Telegraph's Clarence Hungerford Mackay. Said to be richest claim in the world, the Comstock yielded $340,000,000 pay dirt between 1864 and 1884, brought Fame & Fortune to the combination of Mackay, Flood, O'Brien & Fair...
...slave who is sexton of Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. He wears white robes, golden keys around his neck and his own long, crinkly beard. Pilgrim of Determination is Esther Jones, a dry-cleaner; Millionaire is Hubert Jones, an Atlanta barber; Devil is George A. Pullum, a railway postal clerk. Reader or interpreter, who also helps guide the action of the play, has been Estella Z. Wright, 20-year-old Negro stenographer, soon to join the staff of Pittsburgh's Negro Courier. None of the actors in Heaven Bound receives wages. The first production cost $155, realized...
Married. Clarence Hungerford Mackay, 57, president of Postal Telegraph Cable Co., director of Metropolitan Opera Company; and Anna Case, 42, onetime Metropolitan Opera and concert soprano, daughter of a South Branch, N. J. blacksmith; in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Roslyn, L. I., not far from Mr. Mackay's $6,000,000 estate "Harbor Hill." Among those witnessing the ceremony were the groom's daughter Ellin and her husband, songwriter Irving Berlin, whom Mr. Mackay had never before countenanced. After the ceremony bride & groom cruised away on his yacht Manchonoch...