Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1909 — Chicago and Mail Orders. [ARTICLE]

Chicago and Mail Orders.

Chicago claims the distinction of being the mall order center of the universe, and some recent figures from the postofflee there would seem to establish the right to the honor. One of the biggest mall order houses recently broke all postal records by mailing 0,000,000 catalogues, each weighing two ounces, the whole weighing 450 tons. The sacks holding the catalogues weighed sixty-five tons, If these I>amphlets had been sent on one train thirty cars would have been filled.