The Cumby Rustler. (Cumby, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, January 10, 1913 Page: 8 of 8
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OUR INVENTORY DISCLOSES THE FACT
You Can Now Have Many Things Sent You by Mail
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Saddles
Reduced Prices on
Sewing Machines
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Enamelware
Reduced Prices on
Lamps
Reduced Prices on
Stove Boards
Reduced Prices on a few
Rocking Chairs
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PARCELS POST
THOR several years there has been a move on foot by the
Post Office Department to develop the service and to
* give the people who live in the country better and
cheaper facilities in the way of transportation of various
supplies to and from their homes.
This has been combatted by most of the large com-
mercial bodies, and many of the smaller ones, on the ground
that it would enormotialy increase the expenses of the mail
service and in return bestow but little benefit upon the
masses, whom it was expected to assist. Personally, we did
not take sides, as we could never figure to our own satis-
faction what was really best, but on the first day of the
month the Parcels Post went into effect and is now an es-
tablished reality.
Whether for good or not, it is now open for us, and for
one, we are expecting to do all we can to make it a perfect
success, and call on all others to do the same.
Cumby has what is known as its own “Local Zone.”
On aU rural routes leading out of Cumby packages of many
things may be sent by mail at a very low postal rate. The
maximum weight of any one article, or articles, is 11 lbs ,
and the rate is as foUows:
Up to 4 ounces the rate of postage is only 1 cent per
ounce or fraction thereof, but after the y weight passes 4
ounces pound rates are charged, which will be 5 cents for
the first pound and one cent additional for each extra
pound up to the lipiit, T 4 pounds. Thus, we see that on
anything that weighs Only four ounces, it will require only
4 cents to carry it anywhere in the Cumby local zone, which
includes Cumby and all people reached on any route out
ot this place. Over 4 ounces and not over one pound, it
will take 5 cents; for two pounds, 6 cents; three pounds, 7
cents; four pounds, 8 cents; and so on to eleven pounds,
which requires 15 cents.
You have many things such as Butter, Eggs, fresh meat, saus-
age, chickens (dressed), all kinds of game (dressed), etc., which,
by using the telephone, you can often sell in Cumby and deliver by
Parcels Post, while we have thousands of articles, such as all kinds
of builders’ shelf hardware, glassware, tinware, leather goods, and
harness, horse collars, paint, clocks, poultry food, garden seed,
pocket and table cutlery, tea and table spoons, all kinds of extras
for plows, planters, harrows, binders, mowers, rakes, etc., paint
brushes, axes, washboards, well buckets, well pulleys, rope, mail
boxes, baskets, hanw^ traces, single trees, hand saws, and others
too numerous to mention* All should provide themselves with a
good pair of scales at once, and in this connection we beg to say
that we have a splendid scale with hopper, which weighs by ounces
to 24 pounds, which we offer for only $1.25.
When in need of anything, and you do not have the time to come
to town after it kindly phone us and we will take pleasure in letting
you know at once just what the postage will be on any certain arti-
cle you may want. You will be surprised at what a very low cost,
in postage, it can be delivered to you. Asking the co-operation of
all in making the Parcel Post a success we stand ready to serve
you, with promptness, at any time.
Reduced Prices on all
Heaters
Reduced Prices on
Winter Laprobes
Reduced Prices on
Dishes
Reduced Prices on
Glassware
Reduced Prices on
Tinware
Reduced Prices on
Boys’ Wagons
Reduced Prices on
Tricycles
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Take Advantage of the Parcels Post and Have Your Goods Delivered at Your Home by Rural Mail Carrier
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Morton, George M. The Cumby Rustler. (Cumby, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, January 10, 1913, newspaper, January 10, 1913; Cumby, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth770736/m1/8/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.