. Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette. Published Monthly: 202 Broadway. N. for $1 per Yeai PENMANS GAZETTE, ered « the Post Office of New YorkN. Y , as Second-Class Mail , 1890. by D T AMES. NEW YORK, APRIL, 1890. Vol. XIV.—No. 4 Letters by ]».^tiil ,,,h ser-vi,,.. The ^ ^^ been less advocated for until there seemed any likeHhood of Ha The Postmastcr-Gen-applied toCongress for authorityto make use of the pres-ent post-office clerksa-jd letter-carriers forthe additional purpose of collecting anddistributing telegrams. This is not aproject for c


. Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette. Published Monthly: 202 Broadway. N. for $1 per Yeai PENMANS GAZETTE, ered « the Post Office of New YorkN. Y , as Second-Class Mail , 1890. by D T AMES. NEW YORK, APRIL, 1890. Vol. XIV.—No. 4 Letters by ]».^tiil ,,,h ser-vi,,.. The ^ ^^ been less advocated for until there seemed any likeHhood of Ha The Postmastcr-Gen-applied toCongress for authorityto make use of the pres-ent post-office clerksa-jd letter-carriers forthe additional purpose of collecting anddistributing telegrams. This is not aproject for creating a new army of govern-ment otiiciftls and offices to be squabbledover at election times. It is simply pro-posed to make the present post offices andincumbents a little more useful to thepublic. The bill provides among other things asfollows; For the purpose of transmission of corres-pondence among the people aad of pro-moting commerce between the severalStates, the limited post and telegraphservice is hereby established as a bureau orpart of thi Post-Ofhce Department of theUnited States, and postal telegrams shallbe received at post offices, transmitted bytelegraph, and delivered through themedium of the post office service iti themanner herein described. All po


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