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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1922
Page
2
The article promotes Postal Improvement Week set for May 1 by the Postmaster General. It urges clear addresses, return addresses in the upper left, and careful mailing practices to speed dispatch. It notes the campaign includes business groups and 326,000 postal workers and calls readers to report poor service to their postmaster.
The Post Office Department urges postmasters and workers to use courtesy in dealing with the public during Postal Improvement Week starting May 16 1922. The initiative highlights courteous behavior as essential in daily postal service.
The Dead Letter Office recalls Ben Franklin days when vague addresses like Atlantic Coast or Ezekiel Smithers delayed mail. Today officials urge including number and street in the recipient address to ensure quick delivery and avoid delays.
Instruction emphasizes spelling out the full state name in addresses to avoid confusion between Trinidad California and Trinidad Colorado. It cautions postal clerks and readers to ensure clarity in mail routing and customer records.
In President Harding’s first message to Congress the phrase emphasizes postmasters as managers of local branches of the world’s largest business. The idea highlights the postal system as a vast enterprise requiring attentive administration at the community level.
A readable notice urges better postal service presentation with clear mail box and office area improvements. It invites community members, including farmers and rural carriers, to participate and expects visitors like Mr Stranger to notice the changes and bring benefits.
Postmaster General Hubert Work emphasizes that every person in the postal system matters. He warns against viewing duties as mere hired tasks for an absentee employer and calls for treating postal work as accommodations for neighbors and friends through teamwork.
Heavy rains caused extensive damage to farms along Copperas Creek with floods rivaling the 1918 disaster. Crops escaped overflow are badly damaged, and a slow run continued Sunday night, delaying farm work for a week without further rain. Local officials repaired washouts. several residents moved or visited nearby towns while others planned moves.
An article from Progressive Agriculture in the Philippines argues that an egg eating hen harms the flock. It advises removing the bird or separating it, improving nesting material and lighting, and ensuring a balanced diet with animal matter and calcium. It also links improper feeding to feather plucking and urges ample exercise and pest control to restore normal appetite.
Texas Comanche County executes sale of real property in Comanche on June 6 1922 to satisfy a 12 56 judgment in favor of Peters Branch of the International Shoe Co. The notice cites Block 11 parcel in the original town of Hasse and includes the personal property on the lot. Also featured is store ad promoting Big fot field peas Todd Jennings seeds.
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