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Show PARCELS POST IN FULL SWING THROUGHOUT COUNTRY WITH ADVENT OI THE NEW YEAR , g vPSrSpr7. lino CQQBifiK!KHH Washington, Jan 6 With the par-eel par-eel post now in lull swing throughout through-out the country, the postal authorities are busy watching for flaws in the n-w ayatena a thorough test of weeks, perhaps months, will be nec- essary before the success or failure : of the service will br known. Postmaster General Frank H Hitchcock and his a.H8l3tanLs are very sanguine Lhai tho delivery will prove invaluable to business men ami the public generally. The favor with whtc &g new f'lpnie has been re- i cc . rj i- r, in.-op:lort on ihu firat i day of. tho now jear em-ouraej ihem a m In thla belief Mr Hitchcock formally formal-ly set the parcel post m operation exactly ex-actly at midnight as the bells pezled rt oul the arrival of the aenr yor bv SiT mailing a package to ivsi-mun , -i. Vjh ward W .Morgan of New York. It con- SkCL tained a loving cop. Iu-r i- m ' Hai? graved with an Inscription d . rip- A o V - of tho occasion and placed In tlit JteS Nal onal museum. Inw On..- of the mosi. keenly Interested ' men in the group when Mr Hitch-mailed Hitch-mailed ihe irirt was Fourth N- "cf:-"t ''oHtmi-Etrr General Peter V . the lie service. "it |