The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-05-19
FOUND IN MAIL BOXES.
Franks OF 6oys and Slips by Dream
irg Adults.

nS, and one OF these is that all the
natter found in the street mail boxes
toes not have 10 60 through the mail.
one Of the downtown mail coIlec-
ors recently took into the office a
Homan's pochetbook containing So
\ card found in the purse bore the
lame Of prominent family who was
| Notified 70 call at the Government
| )uildng.
She appeared much mystified as 70
h reason for the summons, but
when asked if SIZE had lost a pocket
| book she promptly described the
| purse and il was turned over to her.
She had lost it, she said but had no
ia that she had placed it in the
| nail box
i mailed half dozen letters"
She said, and suppose mast have
iropped the purse into the box at the
same time "
Numerous small parcels are foGCd
IN the mail boxes, put there evident !
lE by absent minded persons. NOT /
long ago much worried man went
to the post Office IN the ri Idle OF the /
night and explained that Le hal /
dropped a 50 bill into box III la
Sale street.
4 went to mail letter" he said, !
and instead Of taking the letter from I
my pocket | took out the bill and |
showed it through the slit. No soon
or had ii gone than | woke up. but it
was too late
collector was sent to the box and
ne money was recovered
Out on the Northwest Side a mail |
collector was astonished one day to
take from letter box six sterling
silver teaspoons, a razor, pair of
napkins and a stick of candy Then
and identified it.
My fve-year-old son confessed"
said the claimant, that he took the
things and showed them into the mail
box just for the fun Of seeeing them {
disappear He had to stand on his {
sled in order to reach the box"
One day youth employed by a big I
iouSt NdS sent DE HIS ELI |
ployer to deliver in person an impor-
tant document to an attorney. with
Instructions to hurry back with the
paper as soon as the lawyer had look.
ed 1t over The boy had been out late
the night previous and was half
asleep. In an absent minded manner r
ne dropped the envelope into the first '
etter box he came across When he a
'eached the lawyers office he sudden
y remembered what he had done S
The envelope was not addressed. r
although it was sealed. and for time n
t looked as if it would have to go o
o the dead-letter Office in Washing D
on before the owner could recover
t The standing of the business p
loUse. however. was such that the n
lost Office officials consented to turn G.
he envelop over without a delay OF s.
everal weeks u
One of the biggest surprises a mail II
olector ever received occurred in n
4yde Park, when he took from a let II
er box live sparrow. No exp!ana- d
ion was found for the birds presence o.
4 the box. The little creature was u
lightly injured, but soon recovered q
nd flew away
The queer things found in the let
ar boxes, however, do not compare
l number and variety with the &c
TRANCE stuff the mail collectors take W
ON the package boxes. Many peo- A
lie mistake these boxes for waste NJ
aper receptacles. Old shoes, bottles OF
nd worthless articles are found often n
| these big boxes, but occasionally u
of value is discovered not ca
tended for mail m
An instance of the sort occurred DC
tort time ago when a State street 81
,llector turned over to the sorters at IN
e post Office box that bore neither Ill
ldress nor stamps. From the man sa
n in which the package had been 10
raped, the clerks came to the con- m
usion that it was not legitimate III
all, and it was held for a claimant, or
no appeared the next day. 81
Il was drunk" he confessed, but IN
mt tell my folks. | had bought on
me goods at department store and co
ID started for home | was feeling IN
city good when | met friend un
hat you got?' he asked me. New MI
oes?' Yep | answered Why don't WI
u send EN- out by pneumatic tubeo TO-
asked. ca
II suppose he was 'joshing me be- o
use | was 50 full, but | didn't see
In that light then. went along
my way back, when suddenly |
led one of the package boxes 10
here's one of those pneumatic tubes -