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The Development of Rates of Postage: An Historical and Analytical StudyThe Development of Rates of Postage: An Historical and Analytical StudyThis book contains a collection of facts and an examination of principles which will be of value to all students of the subject with which it deals. It is more comprehensive than any book...
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The Postage Stamp in WarThe Postage Stamp in WarIrregular ordering and duplicate numbering of figures are retained as in the original. In this HTML version cross-reference hyperlinks to figures are not provided when the figure is adjacent to the paragraph where the reference occurs. To many collectors and...
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Historic Highways of America, Vol. 15The Future of Road-making in AmericaThe present volume on the Future of Road-making in America presents representative opinions, from laymen and specialists, on the subject of the road question as it stands today. After the author's sketch of the question as a whole in...
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Railway Adventures and Anecdotes: Extending over More Than Fifty YearsRailway Adventures and Anecdotes: Extending over More Than Fifty YearsAlthough railways are comparatively of recent date we are so accustomed to them that it is difficult to realize the condition of the country before their introduction. How different are the present day ideas as...
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Are We Ruined by the Germans?Are We Ruined by the Germans?The greater part of the contents of this little volume appeared originally in the Daily Graphic, in the form of a series of six articles written in criticism of Mr. Ernest Williamss Made in Germany. To these articles Mr....
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The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland HighwaysThe Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways These were neither race-horses nor stagecoaches, but rival types of the newly invented steam locomotive. To win the 500 prize offered, the successful engine, if weighing six tons, must be able to draw a load of...
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Government Ownership of Railroads, and War TaxationGovernment Ownership of Railroads, and War TaxationIn their early youth our railroads were allowed to grow up like spoiled, wilful, untamed children. They were given pretty nearly everything they asked for, and what they were not given freely they were apt to get somehow,...
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The Railroad QuestionThe Railroad Question - A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abusesThe people of the United States are engaged in the solution of the railroad problem. The main question to be determined is: Shall the railroads be owned and operated...
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Lettre de Defrance à Bion, sur sa réponse aux objections contre l'établissement de la régie intéressée des postes et messageriesLettre de Defrance à Bion, sur sa réponse aux objections contre l'établissement de la régie intéressée des postes et messageriesJe devrois peut-tre, mon cher Collgue, me dispenser de rpondre votre trs-gracieuse diatribe que vous appelez rponse aux objections contre l'Etablissement de la Rgie intresse....
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Free Ships: The Restoration of the American Carrying TradeFree Ships: The Restoration of the American Carrying TradeIt may seem surprising that an American House of Representatives should have been so ignorant of the meaning of a common word as to apply the term "commerce" to the carrying trade, when in the session...
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The King's PostThe King's Post - Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present timeWhen in 1899 I published the "Bristol Royal...
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A Hundred Years by Post: A Jubilee RetrospectA Hundred Years by Post: A Jubilee RetrospectThe following pages give some particulars of the changes that have taken place in the Post Office service during the past hundred years; and the matter may prove interesting, not only on account of the changes themselves,...
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A Pioneer Railway of the WestA Pioneer Railway of the West This restoration of a portion of the original track of the Lexington and Ohio (now Louisville and Nashville) Railroad laid at Lexington in 1831, is dedicated to those men of forethought and courage who were pioneers in railroad...
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Cheap PostageCheap PostageThe well-ordering of the Postes is a Matter of General Concernment, and of Great Advantage, as well for the preservation of Trade and Commerce as otherwise.Statute of Charles II. ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 27196 Author: Leavitt, Joshua Release Date:...
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GambiaGambian collecting the stamps of Gambia one cannot too strongly emphasise the necessity for guarding the stamps of the "Cameo" series against deterioration by the pressure of the leaves in an ordinary unprotected album. In their pristine state with clear and bold embossing these...
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Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean PostOcean Steam Navigation and the Ocean PostIn offering to the Government and the public this little volume on Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post, I am conscious of my inability to present any new views on a subject that has engaged the attention...
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A Letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to His Friend, the Author of 'The Clockmaker'A Letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to His Friend, the Author of 'The Clockmaker'The duty of Government is first to regulate the stream of Emigration, so that if a man be determined on leaving the United Kingdom he may settle in one of its...
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Canadian Postal GuideCanadian Postal GuideThe principal object of this little work is the dissemination of information in regard to the Canadian Postal Service. It is published with the kind permission of the Postmaster General, and it is hoped will be useful to the public as well...
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Die PostgeheimnisseDie Postgeheimnisse - oder die hauptsächlichsten Regeln welche man beim Reisen und bei Versendungen mit der Post beobachten muß um Verdruß und Verlust zu vermeidenDas Postwesen ist gegenwrtig eine so ausgebreitete und weitgreiffende Anstalt, welche berall ohne Zweifel die bequemste und wohlfeilste Gelegenheit, etwas...
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The Story of the First Trans-Continental RailroadThe Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad - Its Projectors, Construction and HistoryFor some reason the people of today are not nearly as familiar with the achievements of the last fifty years as they are with those of earlier days. The school boy can...
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