Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1916 — TWINS ARE SENT BY MAIL [ARTICLE]

TWINS ARE SENT BY MAIL

Mailed to Postmaster in Nebraska Town as First-Class Parcels at „Cost of 47 Cents. Ewing, Neb. The four-year-old twins of Postmaster Waugh aud wife were visiting in the country about seventeen miles out from Ewing and suddenly becoming homesick they wished to return home. Mr. Waugh being unable to go after the young scions, telephoned for their return by parcels post, and accordingly Perry Saiser, who runs route No. 2, brought the youngsters home safe and sound to anxious, waiting parents. The twins eigh 37 and 38 pounds respectively, and their safe transit home cost the trifling sum of only 23 and 24 cents, on each, a total of 47 cents.