Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1901 — To Cancel Letters. [ARTICLE]

To Cancel Letters.

T.,e postoffice at Hammond has been provided with a Doremus cancelling machine This is the most modern of automatic st mp cancellers and in the future that pounding noise so familiar to patrons of the office will miss the sound. The mechanism ofthe machine is very simple and a person to look at it would hardly believe it capable of cancelling the stamps on letters at the rate of 200 to 500 per minute, but such it does and seemingly without any extraordinary exertion on the part of the operator.