Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1902 — Gain in Postal Receipts. [ARTICLE]

Gain in Postal Receipts.

A general increase of 14.5 per cent is indicated by a statement of the postal receipts nJ the fifty principal postofflees for the month of December, 1901, compared to the currt'S]M>ndlng pertod for IDOO.*" Th* aggregate Is $5,137,310.' Chicago reports the-greatest' proportionate advance. 22.8 per cent, the total at that office being $783,994. New York advanced 1(1.7 per cent and Philadelphia has an advance of 14.9 per cent.