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 viii
... hand , as illustrating the varieties of crime in connection with post - offices , has so accumulated , that the chapters re- ferred to could not be introduced without enlarging the volume to unreasonable dimensions ; and the author has ...
... hand , as illustrating the varieties of crime in connection with post - offices , has so accumulated , that the chapters re- ferred to could not be introduced without enlarging the volume to unreasonable dimensions ; and the author has ...
Pagina xxi
... hands . For although many hearts are made glad by these silent messengers , yet in every day's mail there is enough of sadness and misery , lying torpid like serpents , until warmed into venomous life by a glance of the eye , to cast a ...
... hands . For although many hearts are made glad by these silent messengers , yet in every day's mail there is enough of sadness and misery , lying torpid like serpents , until warmed into venomous life by a glance of the eye , to cast a ...
Pagina xxiii
... hand and perchance overlying the sad messenger , is the announce- ment of another arrival upon the stage of life - Our First - and though it is as yet behind the curtain , not having made its bow to the world at large , is an important ...
... hand and perchance overlying the sad messenger , is the announce- ment of another arrival upon the stage of life - Our First - and though it is as yet behind the curtain , not having made its bow to the world at large , is an important ...
Pagina 27
... hands for investigation , were seemingly very bold , although from the length of the route , and the number of post - offices thereon , the rogue had no doubt flattered himself that it would take a long time to trace him out , even if ...
... hands for investigation , were seemingly very bold , although from the length of the route , and the number of post - offices thereon , the rogue had no doubt flattered himself that it would take a long time to trace him out , even if ...
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... hand had brought upon them . In early life , the saccharine bump is largely developed , but unlike other organs described by phrenologists , this is within the mouth , and is commonly called the " sweet tooth . " Those luxurious youth ...
... hand had brought upon them . In early life , the saccharine bump is largely developed , but unlike other organs described by phrenologists , this is within the mouth , and is commonly called the " sweet tooth . " Those luxurious youth ...
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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