Ten Years Among the Mail Bags: Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-office DepartmentH. Cowperthwait & Company, 1856 - 432 pagina's Postgeschichte ; Paketpost ; Briefpost ; Postbetrieb ; Amerika. |
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Pagina vi
... furnish information which could be obtained from no other source , and supply the evil - disposed with expedients for the prosecution of their nefarious designs . Second , the danger of again inflicting pain upon the innocent relatives ...
... furnish information which could be obtained from no other source , and supply the evil - disposed with expedients for the prosecution of their nefarious designs . Second , the danger of again inflicting pain upon the innocent relatives ...
Pagina xxiii
... furnish some rare specimens of unconscious humor of this kind , for the delectation of his readers . - As we contemplate the wit , fun , humor , and jollity of all sorts , which lie dormant within these wrappages , we are tempted to ...
... furnish some rare specimens of unconscious humor of this kind , for the delectation of his readers . - As we contemplate the wit , fun , humor , and jollity of all sorts , which lie dormant within these wrappages , we are tempted to ...
Pagina 30
... furnished . So these victims of raging desire were compelled to retire hungry from untasted luxuries , not without sundry candid expressions of their feelings toward the obdurate retailers of sweets , and tart replies from those ...
... furnished . So these victims of raging desire were compelled to retire hungry from untasted luxuries , not without sundry candid expressions of their feelings toward the obdurate retailers of sweets , and tart replies from those ...
Pagina 37
... furnish , by their identi- fication , some clue to the perpetrator of the robberies . With this hope , I inquired ... furnished me , was a brown overcoat , cut something after the Quaker style , which my informant remembered to have ...
... furnish , by their identi- fication , some clue to the perpetrator of the robberies . With this hope , I inquired ... furnished me , was a brown overcoat , cut something after the Quaker style , which my informant remembered to have ...
Pagina 38
... furnished in Luke xiv . 5 , to look about now and then for the Quaker coat and its owner , -a wolf in sheep's clothing . I observed the frequent characteristics of a country congrega- tion , a noisy choir , a gorgeous display of ribbons ...
... furnished in Luke xiv . 5 , to look about now and then for the Quaker coat and its owner , -a wolf in sheep's clothing . I observed the frequent characteristics of a country congrega- tion , a noisy choir , a gorgeous display of ribbons ...
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Ten Years Among the Mail Bags: Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent ... James Holbrook Volledige weergave - 1855 |
Ten Years Among the Mail Bags: Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent ... James Holbrook Volledige weergave - 1855 |
Ten Years Among the Mail Bags: Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent ... James Holbrook Volledige weergave - 1888 |
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addressed afterwards appeared appointed arrest arrived ascertained baggage-master bank bank-notes bills Blake Boston Brooklyn called Carleton character charge circumstances clerk companion course crime Dead Letter Office decoy depredations directed dollars door duty evidence examination fact feel Fort Covington furnished gentleman guilty hand Harrowfork honest honor horse Hubbardston innocent inquired investigation Joab John Harmon Jolliet knew landlord letter box look mail carrier Marshal ment miles mind molasses morning neighboring never night obtained occasion Ogdensburg once package paper party passed person post master Post-Office Department present Quaker question railroad received remarked replied request returned rifled road robberies Robert Marshall route secure seemed sent soon Special Agent Squire supposed suspected suspicion taken thing thought tion took town truth turned village wafers wish York York post young