Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1889 — Stamps In Paris. [ARTICLE]

Stamps In Paris.

If you are in Paris and desire a postage stamp, all you have to do is to go into a tobacco store and there you will find it. The tobacco stores are branch post-offices, so far as the sale of stamps are concerned. There, too, you can mail your letters if you desire to. Ail tobacco stores in I'rance are under the control of the government, as tobacco is, and it requires a government permit to open one, unless you are a burglar. Mr. Wanamaker oughl, to provide some way for getting a postage stamp easily in our large cities.