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[[preprinted]] [[all text on page within a red line border or box]] [[red type]] RATES OF POSTAGE. [[/red type]] ___ POSTAL CARDS, costing 1 cent each, on which short communications may be written, can be purchased at any post office and sent to any part of the United States or Dominion of Canada. LETTERS TO ANY PART OF THE UNITED STATES or Dominion of Canada, 3 cents for each 1-2 ounce, or part thereof. DROP LETTERS, 2 cents for each 1-2 ounce, at all letter-carrier offices; at other offices 1 cent. VALUABLE LETTERS may be registered on application, at the office of mailing, and the payment of a registration fee of 8 cents on domestic letters. Fees on foreign letters variable. TRANSIENT NEWSPAPERS, Periodicals, Pamphlets, Books, Book Manuscripts, Proof Sheets, Blanks, Circulars, Engravings, Articles of Merchandise, Seeds, Cuttings, Roots, Bulbs, and other mailable matter, 1 cent for each 2 ounces or part thereof. Newspaper, Magazine and Music Manuscripts are subject to letter postage. NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS, mailed from a known office of publication or news agency, and addressed to regular subscribers or news agents, issued weekly or oftener, two cents a pound and fraction thereof; less frequently, three cents a pound and fraction thereof. One copy of a newspaper to each actual subscriber residing within the County where the same is wholly or partly printed and published, FREE, except at letter-carrier offices. ALL PACKAGES of mail matter not charged with letter postage must be so arranged that the same can be CONVENIENTLY examined by Postmasters; if not, letter postage will be charged. NO PACKAGE will be forwarded by mail which weighs over 4 pounds. ALL POSTAL MATTER, for delivery within the United States and Dominion of Canada, must be PREPAID by stamps. LETTERS TO GREAT BRITAIN OR IRELAND, 6 cents for each 1-2 ounce. Prepayment optional, but subject to a fine of 6 cents in addition to postage, if wholly or partly unpaid. LETTERS TO FRANCE, 9 cents for each 1-2 ounce. Prepayment optional. LETTERS TO GERMANY, direct, 6 cents; by closed mail, via England, 7 cents for each 1-2 ounce. Prepayment optional. Double rates if unpaid. POSTAL CARDS may be sent to Germany and Switzerland by adding a 1-cent postage stamp. Letters to other foreign countries vary in rate according to the route by which they are sent; proper information can be obtained of postmasters. [[/preprinted]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[preprinted]] [[all text on page within a red line border or box]] [[red type]] POSTAL MONEY ORDERS. [[/red type]] ___ MONEY ORDER POST OFFICES are established in most of the large cities and towns, at which orders can be obtained upon any other office, at the following rates of commission: - On orders not exceeding $10 ..... 5 cents. Over $10 " " [[Ditto for: not exceeding]] $20 ..... 10 " [[Ditto for: cents]] " [[Ditto for: Over]] $20 " " [[Ditto for: not exceeding]] $30 ..... 15 " [[Ditto for: cents]] " [[Ditto for: Over]] $30 " " [[Ditto for: not exceeding]] $40 ..... 20 " [[Ditto for: cents]] " [[Ditto for: Over]] $40 " " [[Ditto for: not exceeding]] $50 ..... 25 " [[Ditto for: cents]] No single order issued for more than fifty dollars. Parties desiring to remit a larger sum must obtain additional money orders. [[fleuron image]] [[red type]] FESTIVALS AND FASTS. [[/red type]] __ Epiphany, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jan. 6. Septuagesima Sunday, - - - - - - - - - Feb. 13. Quinquagesima (Shrove Sunday), - - - - Feb. 27. Ash Wednesday, - - - - - - - - - - - - Mar. 1. First Sunday in Lent, - - - - - - - - Mar. 5. Saint Patrick, - - - - - - - - - - - - Mar. 17. Palm Sunday, - - - - - - - - - - - - - April 9. Good Friday, - - - - - - - - - - - - - April 14. Easter Sunday, - - - - - - - - - - - - April 16. Low Sunday, - - - - - - - - - - - - - April 23. Rogation Sunday, - - - - - - - - - - - May 21. Ascension Day (Holy Thursday), - - - - May 25. Pentecost (Whit Sunday), - - - - - - - June 4. Trinity Sunday, - - - - - - - - - - - June 11. Corpus Christi, - - - - - - - - - - - June 15. First Sunday in Advent, - - - - - - - Dec. 3. Christmas Day, - - - - - - - - - - - - Dec. 25. [[fleuron image]] [[red type]] CHRONOLOGICAL CYCLES. [[/red type]] __ Dominical Letters, - - - - - - - - - - B.A. Epact, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4. Golden Number, - - - - - - - - - - - - 15. Solar Cycle, - - - - - - - - - - - - - 9. Roman Indiction, - - - - - - - - - - - 4. Julian Period, - - - - - - - - - - - - 6589. [[/preprinted]]
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