Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1890 — BUSY PENSION AGENTS. [ARTICLE]

BUSY PENSION AGENTS.

They Are Crowding the Mails with Their Advertisements. Washington dispatch: The pension legislation at this session of Congress has stimulated the pension attorneys to great activity, causing an increase of 33 per cent in the receipts of the Washington postoffico for the quarter ending June 30, and tho officials say there will also be a great increase for the month of July. The abnormal increase is due almost entirely to the patronage of tho pension agents, who have been buying as high as as 85,000 worth of stamps at a time. Some of them bought one cent stamps for use to inclose unsealed circulars, but the smart ones used the sealed envelopes to send their circulars, knowing with the press of business at the office the lirst-class matter would receive attention first. In addition to the circulars, sealed and unsealed,one firm sent out a million copies of a newspaper In which their business is advertised.