| Show LAME DUCKS CARED FOR FORT J f BY CLEVER OFFICIALS I i t 2 4 ov l t t r I v George te P 0 OB Bo x Utah t t j d 2 4 Y Lt t L lpt 70 7 i i B ce k A Amador dou dounty t calt CI 1 1 h 10 t I v 74 Jl T b Belini e S iC Mass Mt 1 f r i iJ O j J r r I f fj II I j A AV V r 2 Miss ss Er it 1 Tousey I eaver Crossl Crossing g Seward oun Neb Route o No 2 oc ock r k l f J 0 Vi I It t f I Ix x f L vb v r iz 7 I l C ej i 10 1 i Lj Id LA 61 1 o Mr Clear Creek Utah 1614 J U e I J rJ V q i I If 11 f c l z zA zi 4 i O L A 7 0 4 li j jI I r George Chuka Shenandoah Pa Ia PaI I I III V P m Yd t PJ I f ft Lf V i 3 A l v vt vM t M Mr John Jonn P Tuscarora Tuscarora Pa Schuylkill County Box 72 AD Any one who visits the mysterious inside of u a postoffice and aud overlooks the lame duck department misses the most interesting offering or of the entire trip There are tricks in all trades they say and the trick or of handling lame du ducks kB is it a trick which can be only with years of experience In hand handling Hn ling man mall Lame ducks are the poorly ad envelopes which no now and then bob up to cause a slight hesitation in the l throwing of mall mail are the indivIduals who toss the man mall just received into plies piles which are again distributed and again until each letter bas hi found its proper box whore It awaits the call of the person to whom It Itis itis is addressed The Tha person to whom It is the stickler when a alame alame lame duck shows up Often Orten the scribbling looks much like Uke a ah h hens tracks attaches get to together gether and hold an inquest st over the lame duck duek which is tossed on a table for this purpose No matter how poorly written or bain badly spelled the address may maybe maybe be there are arc law feW lame ducks which are not finally translated and sent to the correct nd address Each Ench incoming mall an assort assortment assortment ment of lame ducks to the Salt Lake posto postoffice fice Of 01 the do en or 01 more which come In every da day not one goes astra astray although there are times when Postmaster ter Thomas and his assistants strike something entirely new in penmanship A knowledge ge ot of many things is in necessary to quick tr ot of these scribbles Long connection with the Salt Lake postoffice has made mEde Postmaster clever at deciphering the 15 and which reach this scra point The above assortment mu illustrates what lame ducks duck really are arc Thc They are or of addresses qi envelopes s which copIes have reached the persons addressed The translations which acc accompany them were de bY officials of th the Salt Lake Lale posto postoffice rice |
