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Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-27 | Page 1 | Ordered to Burn Government Stamps

Type issue
Date 1902-02-27
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Rights No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title Ordered to Burn Government Stamps
Type article
Date 1902-02-27
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 1
OCR Text ORDERED TO BURN GOVERNMENT STAMPS t Board of Health Commands Postmaster Postmaster Post Post- master to to Destroy Contents of of Office From Fear ar of Smallpox NEW YORK Feb 27 The The postmaster ter at Colonia N. N J. J a suburb of Metuchen Metuchen Met- Met u hen has made an affidavit before Recorder Recorder Reorder Re Re- corder order Moss 1 of that city that he has has- d destroyed by fire United States tates postage stamps worth and other articles in the Colonia postoffice valued at 2000 The The postmaster was ordered by the health board to burn everything in the building owing to smallpox In the postmasters postmaster's family
Reference URL https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rv1vz7/16679220