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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1910
Page
6
Postmaster General Hitchcock recently signed a four year contract for about three and a half billion postal cards. The order covers the next four years starting January 1 1910 and implies vast annual usage by the American public and businesses.
The article details a shift to finer yet lighter postal cards to save government travel costs by weight. Postmaster Hitchcock aims to modernize the cards with artistic tint and ink colors, explores three sizes including standard 3 1 2 by 5 4 inches plus reply cards, and notes experiments will determine the final scheme.
The Post Office plans to switch postal card production from Rumford Falls Maine to the Washington government printing office. Officials say a million dollar contract will supply 2 to 3 million cards daily with strict safeguards, many officials and locked presses, plates, and vault controls.
A review in the Typographical Journal discusses The Printers a Study in American Trade Unionism by George B. Barnett associate professor at Johns Hopkins. Barnett drew on time spent in Indianapolis at the International Typographical Union headquarters for his perusal of the book.
The Cincinnati Enquirer notes the death of Peter Morton known as Old Pete a colored antebellum character who lived in Geneva Court. He was about eighty and left no exact age. Pete worked as family servant and porter at various homes and stores after the Civil War and once owned by a Kentucky gambler who freed him if he signed a note. Bank officers in Maysville funded his freedom and Pete paid the debt for 20 years after the war until it was fully repaid.
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