Worley's Directory of El Paso, Texas, 1914 Page: 49
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BUSINESS MEN'S
LUNCH
50 cents
SHELDON
CAFE
Private Din-
ing and Ban-
quet Rooms
OF EL PASO, TEXAS
49
POSTAGE RATES.
First Class—Letters and all other written
matter, whether sealed or unsealed, (except
manuscript copy accompanying proof-sheets,
or corrected proof-sheets of the same) and all
other matter sealed, nailed, sewed, tied or
fastened in any manner, so that it cannot be
easily examined, two cents per ounce or frac-
tion thereof, including delivery at letter car-
rier offices. Postal cards, one cent each.
Postal cards are unmailable with any writing
or printing on the address side, except the
direction, or with anything pasted upon it or
attached to them. On private mailing cards
bearing written messages, provided they con-
form to regulations, one cent each. Drop
letters, two cents per ounce or fraction thereof
when mailed at letter carrier offices, and one
cent at offices where free delivery by carriers
is not established. The postage on first-class
matter should be fully prepaid, but if two cents
in stamps be affixed, the matter will be for-
warded and the remainder due collected of
addressee before delivery.
Second Class—Only for publishers and news
agents; publications of the second-class, when
sent by the publishers thereof and news agents,
are subject to postage at the rate of one cent
a pound or fraction thereof.
The rate of postage on newspapers and
periodical publications of the second-class,
when sent by other than the publisher or news
agent, is one cent for each four ounces or frac-
tion thereof, and must be fully prepaid. Pub-
lications of the second-class, one copy to each
actual subscriber residing in the county where
the same are printed, in whole or in part, and
published, shall go free through the mails; but
the same shall not be delivered at carrier offices,
or distributed by carriers, unless postage is
paid thereon at the rate of one cent per pound.
The rate on newspapers and periodicals (except
weeklies) and periodicals weighing more than
two ounces shall be subject, when delivered by
carriers, to a postage of two cents each, and
these rates shall be prepaid. Weekly news-
papers mailed for delivery at a free delivery
office, although within the county of publica-
tion, must pay the pound rate, and are then
entitled to delivery by carriers, or through
boxes or the general delivery. Daily news-
papers, or papers other than weeklies and
periodicals, mailed for delivery at other than
letter carrier offices within the county, one
copy of each to actual subscribers residing in the
county, are entitled to pass free; but if mailed
for delivery at a letter carrier office other than
the office of mailing, the pound rate must be
paid thereon; if mailed for delivery at a letter
carrier office, through office box or general de-
livery at the office of mailing, the pound rate
must be paid; if deposited in a letter carrier
office for delivery by carriers, the postage must
be prepaid at the rate of one cent each for news-
papers, one cent each for periodicals weighing
less than two ounces, and two cents for period-
icals weighing over two ounces.
Third Class—Must be placed under a band,
upon a roller, between boards or in an unclosed
envelope, or closed so as not to conceal the
nature of the packet or its contents, or it may
be so tied with a string so as to easily unfasen
(all matter enclosed in sealed envelopes notched
on the sides or corners must pay letter rates)
one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof,
which must be fully prepaid. This includes
books, circulars chromos, hand bills, engrav-
ings, lithographs, magazines, music, newspa-
pers, pamphlets, photographs, proof-sheets, and
manuscript accompanying the same, reproduc-
tion by the electric pen, hektograph, metallo-
graph, papyrograph, and in short any copying
press not in the nature of personal correspond-
ence. Seeds, bulbs, roots, scions and plants,
although mailable at third class rates are fourth
class matter in all other respects and may bear
the written additions permissible on matter of
that sort. Limit of weight four pounds, except
for a single book, which may weigh more.
Third class matter must be fully prepaid or
will not be forwarded.
RATES OF POSTAGE TO CANADA.
(The dominion of Canada embraces all British
North American Provinces except .New-
foundland.)
Letters and Postal Cards—Same rate and con-
ditions of prepayment as for domestic letters
and postal cards.
Other Matters—Articles of every kind or na-
ture which are admitted to the domestic mails
of either country, will be admitted under the
same conditions to the mails exchanged be-
tween the two countries, except that articles
other than letters in their usual arid ordinary
forms are excluded from the mails, unless they
Jobbers of
Manufacturers
of
Wagons and
THE MYERS CO.
Agricultural The Buggy People Harness and
Implements 310 so. el paso 114 e. overland Saddles
(. H.
Williams
&(o.
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WALL
PAPER
PAINTS
SI6NS
Tinting
nur
Specialty
223 SO.
STANTON
PHONE 4088
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John F. Worley Directory Company. Worley's Directory of El Paso, Texas, 1914, book, 1914; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth285892/m1/49/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas at El Paso.