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R.F.D.: It had rules and regulations; the system worked.

Walter Farwell — 8 Sep 2005 11:43:08 GMT

THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN. May 2, 1901. "Extending Rural Free Delivery".--On July 1 next the rural free delivery system will be enlarged on the strength of an increased appropriation amounting in all to $3,500,000 for the ensuing year. New routes will be established and old ones extended. No route will be started of less than twenty miles in length or serving less than one hundred families. Each family must put up at its own expense a box of accepted design close to the highway. The boxes are under the protection of the federal statutes, and any one tampering with them, is subject to severe penalities. Rural carriers will personally deliver registered, special delivery or pension letters. In connection with this subject comes in a strong argument for the good roads movement. Unless the roads are in satisfactory condition the postoffice Department will not consider an aplication for a route. It pays to look well to the public highways.

As an essential part of broadening rural free delivery the department urges farmers and residents in the country to keep the roads in repair. One township in Michigan obtained a route by spending $600 extra on its roads. A successful feature of rural free delivery is the money order system. The first order was issued sixteen months ago and in February last the number handled by the rural carriers was 18,645. As long as the mail schedule is properly maintained the rural carrier is allowed to deliver packages also. Routes are established on the strength of petitions signed by heads of families. 'Rural free delivery is an old story in some European countries. It has been sufficiently tested in the United States to insure its steady, and probably rapid extension.

how to get from NY to Chicago and land in Iowa for free ?

DanBrown727 — 3 Oct 2004 5:12:34 GMT

Q: Was there a Federally funded program, government agency, or religious interest groups in New York (or elsewhere) during the 1800’s that encouraged, promised, or offered non-English speaking emigrants—(land and) a English education (in Chicago for seven years ?) if they studied and became ministers and then perhaps settled in the Midwest somewhere. It sounds kinda like a plausible gimmick by New Yorkers to reduce the crowding in “The Big Apple”. It also sounds like a plausible method for developing or struggling churches in the mid-west to attract emigrants into the priesthood or ministry. I’m trying to figure out how my great grandfather, Fred H. Hans arrived in New York from Hanover, Germany in abt 1840 and then somehow managed to get to Chicago where he apparently attended school for seven years (while also studying ministry ?). After completing the school in Chicago, he evidently returned to New York where he married Louisa Lintlaw and had two children before moving to Bremer County, Iowa where he farmed and ministered (Evangelical Methodist or ME). It doesn’t make too much sense to me, that Fred would travel all the way from Chicago (after completing school), back to New York, get married, have two children, then travel all the way back to Iowa to preach and farm. It almost sounds like he begrudgedly had to complete a contract, otherwise how would he have been able to acquire the farm property in Iowa to start with.
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WORLD WAR TWO DRAFT EVASION

manuscript5 — 3 Dec 2003 7:53:27 GMT

Would like to know how 'draft dodging' was handled during WWII.

Pension Granted to Patrick DRONEY