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| Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's
This would occur in March and
April, and sometimes, the first half of May. It was during one of those
years that I was postmaster at Marquette. One night a steamer arrived (the
first boat of the season), bringing the accumulated mail of two months or
more, and it was very large. I had taken it to my office and was distrib-
uting it as expeditiously as possible, by lamp or candlelight. My postoffice
was very small, in the rear end of a store, with only room enough for a small
table, a chair and a place for a mail bag, twenty-four alphabetical mail boxes
on my right, and forty-eight 8x10 boxes to rent.
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