Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1912 — UNCLE SAM ADOPTS “BABY” [ARTICLE]

UNCLE SAM ADOPTS “BABY”

Tiny Mail Sack Originating In Chicago Already Saves $500,000 for Government. repugn “baby.” It was born in the postoffice and has been adopted by Uncle Sam. It weighs only one pound, but as a typical Chicago “doer” it is as big as a mastodon. Already it has saved its great foster parents a half million dollars and it is less than a month old. . The new creation is a small mail sack, the baby of the bag department of the United States mail. It was created from the needs of toe great

mereAhtlle and publication concerns sending but vast quantities of mail. Some time ago the department ruled that in order to handle such matter more expeditiously the publishers must route it. < It further was ordered that the Blatter be tied in bundles and then put into United States 'mail sacks of the various sizes furnished by the government In one of these tiny sacks as many as 800 pieces of small maH' may be bagged. In a label holder is slipper a narrow card bearing the name of the postoffice destination, whether It be St. Louis or the Philippines. Uncle Sam has ordered 167,000 of the bags.