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Show I nUnALFP.EE DELIVERY NCnEAtHD POSTAL flECEIPTS llfjwt- of reslmatler (ln-ral r-alitt L'kU or Ms-r a-tttm. Postmaster Oeneral Charles Rmory Hmlth has submitted his annual report to the president. In It the financial operations of the department for the latt flteal year are shown briefly In the following statement of retenuea sad cxpcudlturesi Ordinary postal revenue, 1100,833,(33, receipts from money order business, tl,433,US Total reeelpta from all sources, f 10?,-191,379 10?,-191,379 , lotsl expenditures for theycar,tl07, 710 M7 Lxeets of expenditures over receipts S3 MS.04S Tha deficit for the year 1839 10001s shown to be 81,331,019 lest than tbo pretlous year The estimated postal ret enue for the flteal year ending June 30, 1002, la $110,033,01, and the rttlmated expenditure, expendi-ture, tltl,:70,3l, Rating a probable deficiency of 81,011, 30D. Rural free delivery, tho report says list proved to be 'tho most tallent, significant sig-nificant and far-reaching feature of postal development llesldes swelling the postal receipts the values of farms are enhauced, through the necessity for good roads, and the opportunity afforded the fanner lo keep Abreast ol the times by being put Into closer com rounlcatlon with tho outside world Tho Isolatton and monotony which hat been tho bano of country lifts la senilbl mitigated through the ellect of rural free delivery In placing the farm with In dally range of the Intellectual one1 commercial activity of the world 1 |