Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1905 — Will Weigh all Mail. [ARTICLE]

Will Weigh all Mail.

Commencing with this Wednesday, Mar. Ist, all mail that goes out of Rensselaer p sloffice each twenty.four hours will be weighed. This will be kept up for six weeks. All the mail handled by railroad in the United State will be weighed and an accurate account of the weights kept. This is done every four years, and the purpose is to enable the government to arrive at a bass’? from which to figure on the amount cf money b epaid railway companies for handling mail for the ensuing four years. This work will furnish jobs for a few extra fellows with political pulls, but so far as pissibl* it will be kept in the hand of regular government employe?,