Postmaster General Hitchcock Orders Vast Postal Cards Stock
Postmaster General Hitchcock has signed a contract for about three and a half billion postal cards to be used over the four years beginning January 1, 1910. The order implies nearly a billion cards mailed annually, with average usage reaching 10 or 11 cards per person each year, though many individuals rarely buy any. The supply consists of the regulation official postal cards for nationwide use.
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Ostmaster General Hitchcock
Post Office Department
Uncle Sam
United States
Hitchcock
New Postal Cards To Be Lighter And More Artistic
The government plans lighter higher quality postal cards with three sizes and a standard 3x5 inch main card plus double or reply cards. Projects aim to reduce transportation costs, raise ink tint and card color, and enhance artistry while tightening security around presses and printing plates to prevent fraud.
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Uncle Sam
Hitchcock
Growth of early American printers unions and postal card shift
The article traces 18th century printers meetings in New York Philadelphia Baltimore and Boston, the rise of typographical societies in 1790s and 1800s, and notes on Philadelphia Baltimore and New Orleans. It then details a 1914 plan for the U S government to print postal cards at Washington, the move from Rumford Falls Maine to the Government Printing Office, production scales, quality upgrades, distribution, and storage. It mentions unions’ evolution from 1830s to 1850s establishing the National Typographical Union.
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New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Boston
Typographical Society of
Franklin Typographical Society
Barnett
Quaker City
Asylum Company
Philadelphia Society
New Orleans
United States
Uncle Sam
Rumford Falls
Great Government Printing Office
Washington
Post Office Department
Post Office
Postag
Maine
Hitchcock
Government
Albany
Harrisburg
National
Typographical Society
National Typographical Association
Trenton
Louisville
Cincinnati
National Typographical Union
Printers Trade Unionism Studied in New Book Review
The Typographical Journal reviews George B Barnett Johns Hopkins associate professor, noting his new book The Printers A Study in American Trade Unionism based on long Indianapolis research at the International Typographical Union headquarters. A perusal of Dr Barnett's book discusses printers organization.
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Typographical Journal
International Typographical Union
George B. Barnett
Johns Hopkins University
Barnett
Old Pete Die(d) In Geneva Court Aged Negro Hero
Old Pete known as a colored man of antebellum days dies at his Geneva Court home. About 80, he served many prominent families as a servant and porter after the Civil War. Once the slave of a Kentucky gambler, Pete bought his freedom with a banker's help and paid off the debt over 20 years after the war.
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Peter Morton
Pete
Maysville
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United States Capitol
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Organization of Printers
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