Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1910 — Free Postagre. [ARTICLE]

Free Postagre.

When the post office was first opened at Kai Feng, China, the clerks had a fight with some men who bought stamps and refused to go away until the stamps were licked and stuck on their envelopes for them. The foreign post offices in Palestine are usually convulsed by a spirit of keen competition. If a parcel exceeding the regulation weight or size is taken to an office and refused the traveler in the majority of cases has only to threaten to take it to a rival office, and it is straightway received without a murmur. So keen is the rivalry between some of, these offices that residents in Palestine possess a free post within certain districts. Between Jaffa and the surrounding colonies and also within Jerusalem the German and Austrian offices make no charge for the delivery of local letters. —Chicago News.