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Posts tagged mail delivery

January 28, 2013

 

scattered vintage envelopes

Correspondence Course

Mail delivery in Indiana was uncertain until 1800, when the postal service established a weekly there-and-back-again route from Vincennes to Louisville.

August 6, 2012

 

Indiana newspaper

The Perils Of Pioneer Publishing

One early publisher apologized, “Want of paper compels me to furnish my readers with but half a sheet. I expect a supply before another publication day.”

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