Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1890 — A New Excuse. [ARTICLE]

A New Excuse.

“Can’t you settle that account now, sir?” “Why, I mailed you the money long : “I never received it.” * “Well, I saw in the newspapers that letters containing $36,000 have gone to the dead letter office in the last twelve months. Yours roust be among them. See the government ato'ut it 1 ”