Worley's Directory of El Paso, Texas, 1914 Page: 50
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Coal
Coke
Wood
EXPERT
BOOFERS
PHONE
531
FULL
MEASURE
COMPLETE
DESIGNED
INSTALLED
8 CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE
BUILDING
EL PASO LAUNDRY
Cleaning and Pressing
ESTABLISHED 1891 —
PHONES
Laundry: 470 and 471
Cleaning Dept: 6379
901 So. Santa Fe Street
50
WORLEY'S 1914 DIRECTORY
are so wrapped or enclosed as to permit their
contents to be easily examined by post masters
or custom officers; and except also, the follow-
ing articles, the transmission of which is abso-
lutely prohibited under any circumstances, viz:
Sealed packages, which, from their form and
general appearance, evidently are not letters,
and are not wrapped or enclosed as above re-
quired; publications which violate the copy-
right laws of the country of destination; packets
(except single volumes of printed books and
packages of second class matter) which exceed
four pounds, six ounces in weight; poisons, ex-
plosives or live or dead (not dried) animals,
insects or reptiles, confections, inflammable
material, fatty substances or those which easily
liquify; paste, fruits and vegetables which
quickly decompose; substances which exhale a
bad odor; lottery tickets or circulars and news-
papers containing advertisements of lotteries;
Police Gazettes; all obscene or immoral arti-
cles, and other articles which may destroy or
damage the mails or persons handling them.
All articles are required to be fully prepaid with
postage stamps at the same rate of postage ap-
plicable to similar articles in the domestic
mails of the country of origin, and are required
to be delivered free to addresses of destination,
except letters in their usual and ordinary form
prepaid two cents which must be forwarded to
the proper U. S. exchange postoffice where they
will be stamped "T" and rated with deficient
postage.
RATES OF POSTAGE TO MEXICO.
Letters, newspapers and printed matter are
now carried between the United States and
Mexico at the same rates as in the United
States. Samples are 1 cent for 2 ounces; limit
of weight, 8M ounces. Merchandise, other
than samples, may only be sent by parcels post.
No sealed packages other than letters in their
usual and ordinary form, may be sent by mail
to Mexico, nor any package over four pounds,
six ounces in weight.
RATES OF POSTAGE TO POSTAL UNION
COUNTRIES.
Letters—Five.cents per half ounce or fraction
thereof (fifteen grams being the postal equiva-
lent of half an ounce). Postal cards, single,
two cents each; with paid reply, four cents each.
Newspapers and other printed matter, two
ounces, one cent; commercial papers in packets,
not in excess of ten ounces, five cents; in excess
of ten ounces, one cent for each two ounces or
fraction thereof. Samples of merchandise, two
cents for each four ounces or, fraction thereof.
Registered Matter—The fee on registered mat-
ter, domestic and foreign, is ten cents for each
letter or parcel, to be affixed in stamps in addi-
tion to the postage. Full prepayment of fee
and postage is required.
RATES OF COMMISSION CHARGED FOR
MONEY ORDERS.
Domestic Rates—For orders for sums not ex-
ceeding $2.50, 3 cents; over $2.50 and not ex-
ceeding $5, 5 cents; over $5 and not exceeding
$10, 8 cents; over $10 and not exceeding $20,
10 cents; over $20 and not exceeding $30, 12
cents; over $30 and not exceeding $40, 15 cents;
oyer $40 and not exceeding $50, 18 cents; over
$50 and not exceeding $60, 20 cents, over $60
and not exceeding $75, 25 cents; over $75 and
not exceeding $100, 30 cents.
International Money Order Rates except Mex-
ico, Puerto Rico and Cuba—The fee for an In-
ternational money Order to Mexico only is
one-half the fee named in the table below, to
Cuba and Puerto Rico same as domestic table.
—For sums not exceeding $10, 10 cents; over
$10 and not exceeding $20, 20 cents; over $20 and
not exceeding $30, 30 cents; over $30 and not
exceeding $40, 40 cents; over $40 and not ex-
ceeding $50, 50 cents;over $50 and not exceeding
$60, 60 cents; over $60 and not exceeding $70,
70 cents; over $70 and not execeding $80, 80
cents; over $80 and not exceeding $90, 90 cents;
over $90 and not exceeding $100, 1 dollar.
No single order issued for more than $100.
Parties desiring to remit larger sums must ob-
tain additional money orders.
PARCEL POST RATES.
The Parcel Post was established January !,
1913, and its scope was defined as follows:
"Fourth class mail matter embraces all
other matter, including farm and factory pro-
ducts, not now embraced by law in either the
first; second, or third class, not exceeding
twenty pounds in weight (except in the first
and second zones, in which the limit of weight
is fifty pounds), nor greater in size than sev-
enty-two inches in length and girth combined,
nor in form or kind likely to injure the person
of any postal employee or damage the mail
equipment or other mail matter and not of a
character perishable within a period reason-
ably required for transportation and delivery.
For this purpose the United States and its
several Territories and possessions, excepting
the Philippine Islands, is divided into units of
area thirty minutes square, identical with a
quarter of the area formed by the intersecting
parallels of latitude and meridians of longti-
tude, represented on appropriate postal maps
or plans, and such units of area are the basis of
eight postal zones.
From the center of each such unit of area
circles are drawn, which fix the rates of post-
age chargeable on parcel post matter, origin-
ating at all post offices within such unit. Any
unit touched by any such circle is treated as
if lying altogether within the circle.
On fourth class (or parcel post) matter
weighing four ounces or less the rate is 1 cent
for each ounce or fraction regardless of dis-
tance. On matter weighing more than four
ounces the rates are as follows; after Tanuary
1, 1914:
HARDWARE HOUSE FURNISHINGS
KRAKAUER ZORK and MOYE'S S. I.
NO. 117 SAN FRANCISCO STREET
RANCH SUPPLIES
MACHINERY
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