Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1919 — TWO-CENT STAMP COMES BACK TO STAY. [ARTICLE]

TWO-CENT STAMP COMES BACK TO STAY.

While most of the war prices display a tendency to remain with us indefinitely, postage is about to return to the rates of the days before 'the war. Letter postage was one J<of the last commodities to go up, ! and is one of the first to be reduced to a pre-war basis. After July 1 the purple physiogomy of George Washington will give place on the bulk of our letters to the cheaper pink engraving of the first president. Purple stamps have become familiar to the country in the past year and a half. Billions of them have been printed and used jin that time, and there is left over in -the bureau of engraving and printing 300,000,000, which is quite enough to last two years When the two-cent stamp is the standard of letter postage.