Special Delivery Turns 100 This Year
The essay notes Special Delivery began as Immediate Delivery in 1885 with messenger boys. 8 cents per letter went to the boy, while first class postage applied. It lasted half a century until civil service changes. Today the fee is 2.95, delivery may be no more special than regular mail, urging a fee rethink to keep competition at bay. Special Delivery, along with crank telephones, will be placed in the Smithsonian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civil Service
Smithsonian Institution
Computerized Chaos At IRS Costs Millions In Interest
The piece critiques IRS computer systems delaying refunds, noting nearly $300 million in interest on late refunds. It argues taxpayers may need to refile after 16 weeks, questions fairness, and suggests credits for copying and stamp costs if refiling is required.
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Internal Revenue Service
IRS
To the person who dumped the Australian shepherd dog
A reader in Ottawa RFD 3 writes about finding a starving Australian shepherd named Spot dumped southwest of Ottawa. She took him to the Humane Society after failing to keep him, urging pet owners to be responsible and to deposit animals at shelters rather than abandoning them.
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Ottawa
Humane Society
Spot
Cathy Sumner
RFD
Thoracic vertebral fracture care and colon polyp removal
Dear Dr Donohue discusses thoracic compression fracture due to osteoporosis and recommends rest back brace pain meds massage heat gradual activity and calcium. walking aids and careful lifting. Also covers colon polyps prevalence in older adults and removal via colonoscope rather than open surgery with lower bleeding risk.
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DR. Donohue
Fiasco in Lebanon underscored by U S pullout
AP Diplomatic Writer notes the Reagan era faced failure as the United States ends involvement in Lebanon after a three year incursion begun June 6 1982. The Beirut Marine barracks blast on Oct 23 1983 looms as the defining tragedy with 265 American servicemen killed.
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R. Gregory Nokes
Washington (Ap
United States
Lebanon
Reagan
U.S. Marine
Beirut
Tax Proposal Rearranges Burden Across Citizens and Firms
A panel of experts discusses President Reagan's tax plan, arguing it shifts duties between individuals and businesses. They warn the plan may not reduce overall taxes but merely rearrange who pays, with critics saying it fails to simplify or fairly balance the burden.
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John Cunniff
New York
Murray Weidenbaum
Reagan
Council of Economic Advisers
Weidenbaum
Center For the Study of American Business
Washington University
St. Louis
Bruce Bartlett
The
Heritage Foundation
Leonard Greene
Institute For Socioeconomic Studies
White Plains
N.Y
Greene
Ottawa Herald Subscription Rates Listing
The Ottawa Herald publishes subscription rates for trade area including Ottawa and surrounding towns with carrier mail and motor routes. Rates are one month 3.55, three months 9.85, six months 18.95, one year 346.35 including sales taxes. Out-of-state subscribers deduct 4.5 percent sales tax.
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S. Cedar
Ottawa
Kansas
Robert B. Wellington
TV Tonight listing includes multiple films and sports events
The page runs a dense slate of TV movie entries and sports listings for the night. Titles include Midnight Madness, Gidget's Summer Reunion, Mission Batangas, Testament, THX 1138, Reunion at Fairborough and From Beyond the Grave alongside NBA baseball and Midsaturday shows.
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Joan Rivers
Dick Cavett
Florance Henderson
Lana Wood
James Coco
Omaha
HBO
Fairborough
Robert Mitchum
Deboraherr
Red Buttons
Petar Cushing
David Warner
Kansas City
California
Mannix
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Arthur
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Decison
Caspar W. Weinberger
George P. Shultz
Capitol Hill
Congress
Nicaragua
Christ
Amin Gemayel
William Quandt
Mideast
Brookings Institution
Israel
U.S
Ottawa Herald
Wes
L.A
David Naughton
Debra Clinger
Eddie Neezen
AE_ Adi
Gidget
Caryn Richman
William Schubert
Dean Butler
Amr
Slando
Memphis Ae
Ripley's
Wall Street
Louis Rukeyser
CBN
Donovan
Alien Youth Corps
Atfords
Benson
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Concantus Musicus of
Vienna
Bach
Capitol Journal
Jane Alexander
Wiliam Devane
Roxana Zal
Miami Vice
Crockett and
Tubbs
Matt Houston
Matt
van Gogh
Aries
Robert Duvall
Donald Pleasence
Maggie McOmb
Gas City
Jack Benny Snow
ESPN
Louise Fletcher
Christopher Walken
Natalia Wood
Barney Miller
Wendy and
McLaughlin Group
ABC News Nightline
ABC Rocks
Three St
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