Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1913 — Aerial Mail Service. [ARTICLE]

Aerial Mail Service.

It is appropriate that the first official aerial mail service should start from Paris; for Paris was the scene of the early unofficial attempts to carry letters- through the air. During the siege of Paris in 1870 the mall bags were successfully carried by balloon from the city to Tours and Metz, so successfully, in fact, that we ourselves made postal experiments with balloons at the Crystal Palace in the same year. Twenty years before that there had been talk of an aerial post, but nothing had come of it. Now we shall devise letter boxes in our roofs to save the postman’s legs.—London Chronicle.