Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1913 — Odd Uess for Mall Boxes. [ARTICLE]

Odd Uess for Mall Boxes.

"Did you over stop to think of all the odd uses the mail box is put to?" said the old carrier. “I've been taking mail out of 'em for thirty odd years and you wouldn't begin to believe bow many Queer things. There's no place pickpockets and burglars like so well as a receptacle tor their undersirablo loot Fve fo*d more empty pocketbooks ip them than 1 oould ever count Fvo.win complete carving sots, stag mouhted and with the owner's monogram too deep iy sot In to make them easily salable by the burglar. Superficially the most valuable thing I mr found was a shock, properfar made out fa» |lo,tOC.'