"Rural free delivery" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... came while Mr. Pawket was chopping wood. His ax rested on a stump and piles of white chips breathed fragrance around him as he stood watching the buckboard of the Rural Free Delivery wind down ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... Rural Free Delivery.—No innovation in postal methods has been more successful than the free delivery of mails in the country districts. The development of the system, since its establishment in 1897, ...
— Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition • J.A. James
... but the families have dwindled or gone out entirely, and the social and the neighbourhood spirit is not the same. No more huskings or quiltings, or apple cuts, or raisings or "bees" of any sort. The telephone and the rural free delivery have come and the automobile and the daily newspaper. The roads are better, communication quicker, and the houses and barns more showy, but the men and the women, and especially the children, are not ...
— My Boyhood • John Burroughs |
