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A Paying Post Office

A Paying Post Office image
Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
February
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The last four mountbs have been the 'onr conseontive months of largest salea d the histoty of the Ann Arbor post 3fñce, the stamp sales for the fonr months being $13,719.37, which is at the rate of over f41,000 a year. It takes a $40,000 sale to bring a post office into the first class. The sales for the same foar months the previons year were 112,120.33, sbowing an increase in the fonr months of $1,599.04, wbioh s an inorease of over 13 per cent. The same percentage of iucrease shown throughoot the coming year wonld pnt Ann Arbor iu the list of first clasa offices. The salea for the fonr mouths were October, $3,600.82; November, $3,633 78; December, $3,085 59; Jannary, $3,399.18. After paying the expenses of the Ann Arbor offioe, over 17,700 was tnrned into. the United States treasnry clnring these foor months.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News