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NEW ENGLAND FELT ROOFING WORKS, BOSTON, MASS. Inventors and only Manufacturers, 18 Post Office Square, Boston, Mass.
.212,500
Cohannet Mauufacturing Co., Taunton.
.60,000
Seaconnet Mills Co., Fall River.
. 100,000
Acushnet Mills, New Bedford
.175,000
G. H. Gilbert Manufacturing Co., Ware.
Lancaster Mills, Clinton .240,000
.85,000
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JAMES T. LARKIN'S
JAMES T. ARKIN
HAS UNSURPASSED FACILITIES TO DO
SVERY
KIND OF
FINE ... BOOK ... =
AND
OMMERCIAL
PRINTING.
Nineteen years (this September) at the printing business has enabled him to equip a fine Book and Job Print- ing Factory, right handy on Main Street, No 2, where you can have your printing promptly done in first-class style at reasonable price.
For eight years Compiler, Printer and Publisher of the
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which is on exchange in principal Towns and Cities in east- ern United States, making it a valuable advertising medium.
NEW TYPE. NEW MATERIAL.
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RATES OF POSTAGE. First Class Matter.
This class includes Letters, Postal Cards Sealed Matter and any written communications. Rates 2c. per ounce or fraction thereof. Second Class. For Publishers and News Dealers only. Rate 1c. per pound.
Third Class.
Books, Circulars, Photographs, etc., when unsealed. Rate 1c. for two ounces or fraction thereof.
Fourth Class.
Embraces merchandise and all matter not included in the First, Second or Third Class, which is not, in its nature or form, liable to injure other mail matter, and is not above the limit of weight, four pounds. Rate 1c. for each ounce or fraction thereof.
Local or Drop Letters are always 2c. for each ounce at Letter Carrier Office. Special Delivery Stamp, in addition to regular post- age, insures immediate delivery at any Post Office in the U. S.
TRAVELERS' GUIDE.
The following table gives the names of the towns and cities adjacent to North Adams, also the principal Eastern trade centers, together with their distances and amounts of railroad fare:
NORTH ADAMS TO
MILES.
FARE.
Albany
54
$1 47
Blackinton
3
5
Boston.
143
3 75
Fitchburg
93
2 50
Greenfield.
38
1 02
Greylock
2
5
Hoosick Falls
21
57
Hoosac Tunnel.
7
20
Hartford.
93
2 12
Holyoke.
63
1 50
New York City
196
3 73
New Haven.
124
2 77
North Pownal.
12
32
Pittsfield.
21
45
Rutland.
82
2 41
Readsboro
18
70
Shelburne Falls.
24
65
Saratoga .
63
1 68
Springfield.
67
1 62
Troy ...
48
1 32
Williamstown.
5
10
Wilmington.
32
1 20
Worcester.
105
2 84
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POSTAL LAWS OF 1896.
RULINGS AND INFORMATION UPON POSTAL SUBJECTS.
CLASSIFICATION OF MAIL MATTER.
Classification of Domestic Mail Matter .- Domestic mail matter, -that is, mail matter sent in the mails from some postoffice within the United States to some other postoffice within the same,-is divided into four classes, as follows :
First-Class .- Written matter, namely, letters, postal cards, and all matter wholly or partly in writing, whether sealed, or unsealed, (except manuscript copy accompanying proof-sheets or corrected proof-sheets of the same). All matter sealed or otherwise closed against inspection is also of the first-class.
The Following Articles are Among Those Subject to First-Class Rates of Postage :- Autograph albums containing writing; bank books, with written entries ; bank checks filled out in writing, whether cancelled or not; written visiting cards ; "old letters," whether sent singly or in bulk ; stenographic or shorthand notes ; diplomas, marriage, insurance, or other certificates, filled out in writing ; manuscript copy, when not accompanied with printed proof-sheets ; type-written matter, and manifold copies of the same ; drawings and plans, containing written words, letters, or figures indicating size, price, dimensions, etc. ; envelopes bearing written ad- dresses ; re-mailed postal cards wholly or partly in writing ; printed assessment notices with amount due written or stamped in ; printed price-lists, containing written figures ; printed receipts with written signature ; printed blank forms, filled out in writing ; printed cards, bearing a written date, where the date is not the date of the card, but gives information as to when the sender will call, or will deliver something mentioned in the printed part of the card , or is the date upon which something is acknowledged to have been received ; indented or perforated sheets of paper, containing characters which can be read by the blind, when they contain actual, personal, cor- respondence.
Second-Class .- Periodical publications, namely, all newspapers, and other periodical publications which are issued at stated inter- vals, and as frequently as four times a year, which bear a date of issue, and are numbered consecutively, are issued from a known office of publication, are formed of printed paper sheets, without board, cloth, leather or other substantial binding. To be entitled to entry in this class, such publications must be originated and pub- lished for the dissemination of information of a public character, or devoted to literature, the sciences, art, or some special industry, and must have a legitimate list of subscribers, and must not be
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designed primarily for advertising purposes, or for free circulation at nominal rates .
Third-Class .- Books, circulars, pamphlets and other matter wholly in print (not included in second-class matter), proof-sheets, cor- rected proof-sheets, and manuscript copy accompanying the same.
"Printed matter" is defined by statute to be "the reproduction upon paper, by any process, except that of handwriting, of any words, letters, characters, figures, or images, or of any combination thereof, not having the character of an actual and personal cor- respondence."
· A "circular" is defined by statute to be "a printed letter, which, according to internal evidence, is being sent in identical terms to several persons," and does not lose its character as such by writing therein the date, name of addressee or of the sender, or the cor- rection of mere typographical errors.
The Following Articles, when Printed upon Paper, and Containing no Writing, are Third-Class Matter :- Almanacs, printed legal and insurance blanks ; blue prints; printed books; canvassing and prospectus books with printed sample chapters ; blank check books and receipt books ; printed cards, circulars, catalogues, and assess- ment notices wholly in print; Christinas and Easter cards ; school copy books with printed lines and instructions for use ; matter re- produced by the cyclostyle, hectographi, mimeagraplı, electric pen, or other similar process easy of recognition ; engravings and wood cuts ; printed labels ; lithographs; printed maps (on paper) ; music books, and sheets of music : printed blank notes; photographs; printed plans and architectural designs ; postage stamps, cancelled ar uncancelled ; postal cards, bearing printed advertisements, mailed singly or in bulk ; price-lists wholly in print ; printed proof-sheets. with or without manuscript; printed tags; printed calendars ; U. S. Treasury notes ; printed valentines ; press clipping, with name and date of paper stamped or written in ; indented or perforated sheets of paper, containing characters which can be read by the blind, when not in the nature of personal correspondence.
Seeds, bulbs, roots, scions and plants are, by the Act of July 24, 1888, also mailable at the third-class rate of postage. Under this head are included samples of wheat or other grain in its natural condition ; seeding potatoes, beans, peas, chestnuts and acorns NOT, HOWEVER, samples of flour, rolled oats, pearled barley, or other cereals which can only be used as articles of food ; or cut flowers, dried plants, and botanical specimens ; or foreign nuts and seeds (such as the coffee bean) used exclusively as articles of food, all of which are subject to postage at the fourth-class rate.
Fourth-class .- Merchandise, namely all matter not embraced in the first, second or third-class which is not in its form or nature liable to destroy, deface or otherwise damage the contents of the mail bag, or harm the person of any one engaged in the postal ser- vice, and not above the weight provided by law.
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Under the Head of Fourth-class Matter are Included the Following Articles :- Artificial flowers ; photograph albums ; blank autograph albums ; blank books with printed headings ; bill-heads and letter- heads ; blank books; blotters, printed or unprinted ; coin ; blank cards ; printed playing cards; Christmas and Easter cards, printed on other material than paper; samples of cloth ; cut flowers ; dried plants ; botanical and geological specimens ; blank diaries ; en- velopes, printed or unprinted ; samples of flour, or other manufac- tured grain for food purposes ; blank address tags or labels; dis- sected maps and pictures ; proprietary medicines in original pack- ages ; metals ; minerals; paper bags or wrapping paper, printed or unprinted ; crayon pictures, oil or water-color paintings, pen or pen- cil plans or drawings, if they contain no written words, letters, or figures giving size, dimension, distance, price, &c .; blank postal cards in bulk packages ; printed dress charts, and printed patterns; stationery ; samples of merchandise; wooden rulers, containing printed advertisements ; wall paper ; queen bees, when properly packed ; dried fruit; framed engravings, drawings, or paintings ; map printed upon cloth; calendars or other matter printed upon celluloid ; paper napkins ; photographs retouched with India ink or water colors ; tin types ; dauguerrotypes ; electrotype plates ; and, in general, all articles not included in the other three classes of mail matter.
Limit of Weight of Mail Matter .- No package weighing more than four pounds shall be received for conveyance by mail except single books weighing in excess of that amount, and except books and documents published or circulated by order of Congress, or official matter emanating from any of the Departments of the Gov- ernment or from the Smithsonian Institution.
Second-class matter is not subject to the four-pound limitation. The above limit of weight does not apply to matter in foreign mails regulated by postal convention.
Don't mail your letter or valuable package without having your own address written or printed upon the upper left-hand corner.
This will insure its return to you if not delivered, and will prevent its being sent to and opened at the Dead Letter office.
TO THE PUBLIC : HOW TO SEND MONEY WITHOUT DANGER OF LOSS .- If you wish to send money to a distance in payment of taxes or other debts, for a newspaper subscription, for merchandise, or for any other purpose. Do not put it in a letter, buy a postal money- order; absolute safety guaranteed by the United States Govern- ment.
If a return receipt for registered matter addressed to a foreign country be desired by the sender, a demand for the same must be written across the face of the envelope of the registered article. Postmasters should so inform all persons who send registered matter to foreign countries.
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Fees for Domestic Money-Orders.
For orders not exceeding $2.50
3 cents.
exceeding $2.50, and not exceeding $5.00
5
5.00 " 66
10.00
8
66
66
10 66
20.00 “
30.00 “
66
66
40.00
15
66
66
40.00 €
66
50.00
18
66
66
50.00 “
66
60.00
20
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60.00 “
66
75.00
25
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100.00 30
66
A postal money-order is perfectly safe. In case of its loss, the owner can procure a duplicate by making application to the issuing or the paying Postmaster.
Postmaster-General Wilson announces in the following amendment to the postoffice law, designating legal holidays January 1, Feb- ruary 22, May 30, July 4, the first Monday in September, known as Labor Day, and December 25, and such other days as the President of the United States or the Governors of their respective States may designate as Fast or Thanksgiving Day, or proclaim specialiy as holidays. On other occasions their offices can be closed only after permission obtained therefor from the department. Upon holidays postoffices must be opened sufficiently to meet fairly the public convenience. Mails must be made up and dispatched as on other days. When a legal holiday falls upon a Sunday the follow- ing Monday may be observed, unless otherwise specially provided by State authority .
INSTRUCTIONS AS TO REGISTRATION, ETC. - All valuable matter to be sent by mail should be registered. It will thus receive protection which it is not always possible to give it if sent in the ordinary mails.
Every postmaster is obliged to register mail matter that is prop- erly prepared and offered at the postoffice for registration.
The cost of registering mail matter is eight cents for registry fee, in addition to postage, both of which must invariably be fully pre- paid by stamps affixed to the matter.
Postmasters are forbidden to address mail matter for the patrons of their postoffice, to enclose it in the envelope, seal it, or affix the stamps.
Articles of correspondence addressed under initial, or which bear an address written in pencil, or any matter that is unmailable in the domestic mails, cannot be sent by registered mail to foreign coun- tries, and will not be received for registration. Nor can any article excluded from the domestic mails be admitted in the registered mails for foreign countries.
Letters for Canada should bear the names of the county and province, and those for Mexico the name of the Mexican State, where the office of delivery is located.
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20.00
30.00
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NORTH ADAMS FIRE ALARM BOXES.
4. Corner State and Summer streets.
5. Main and Holden streets.
6. Center and Eagle streets.
7. Main and Marshall streets.
66 Ashland and Chestnut Streets.
66 Church and Washington avenue. Johnson's Mill.
Corner River and Brooklyn Streets. 66 River and Eagle streets.
Corner East Quincy and Pleasant streets. Church and Main streets.
Church and Quincy streets.
66 Ashland and Washington avenue.
Normal School.
I2I. 123. Near E. J. Cary's res., 164 Ashland street
124. Corner North Holden and Bracewell avenue.
Extra Signals.
3. Central Telephone Office, when an alarm is sent in by telephone.
One blow after an alarm of fire-fire out.
Two blows, calls engineers.
Two blows and repeat four times at II a. m., in stormy weather for one session of schools.
Two blows and repeat four times at 8 a. m. in stormy weather, no session of schools.
8. I2. 13. 14. 15. 16. Union street, at Tannery. 17. Union street, at Eclipse mill. 21. 23. 24. 25. 31 66 Liberty and Eagle streets. 32. W. Main, west Cemetery. 34. Braytonville Bridge. 41 42. 51. 52 61. River and Veazie streets. 71. Holden street, near Bridge. 72. Corner Lincoln and Grant street.
Corner Hudson and Prospect streets. Meadow street.
Corner Brooklyn and East Brooklyn streets. North and Williams street.
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Hoosac Valley Street Ry. ELECTRIC SERVICE.
ADAMS LINE.
Lv. No. Adams, Lv. Adams.
WILLIAMSTOWN LINE. Lv, N. Ad'ms, Lv. W'ms'n.
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*To Zylonite only.
*11 00
On Saturdays and Sundays commencing at 1.20 p. m., cars run on both lines every 20 minutes. 5.45 p. m., workmen, Zylo- nite to Adams and Zylonite to North Adams.
WM. T. NARY, Supt.
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JAMES T. LARKIN'S
TALKING BICYCLES
SEE THAT CURVE?
IT'S QUALITY THAT AIDS THEM
TO TALK FOR THEMSELVES.
IT'S THE SCIENCE SHOWN
THAT AIDS THE QUALITY.
191bs. KEATINGS, 191bs.
"365 DAYS AHEAD OF THEM ALL."
KEATING WHEEL CO.,
HOLYOKE, MASS.
Send 4 cents in stamps for art catalog.
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Streets and Avenues
Armstrong avenue, east from 7 East Brooklyn to Phillips Arnold place, east of 14 Church Ashland street, from 13 Summer southeast to city line
Ballou street, from Veazie School House east to Brooklyn Bank street, from 67 Main south to Summer
Barth street, from 32 N. Eagle east Beaver street, continuation of Union left
Beach street, north from East ave to Franklin Beacon street, from 36 Prospect east to Summit Bethel street, from 5 Franklin south Blackinton street, from Church west to Ashland Bliss street, from Glen ave to Summit Bond street, from 160 Ashland east to Corinth Bracewell avenue, from 109 Eagle west to Brooklyn Bradford street runs south from Bradley Bradley street, from 94 S. Church east to Kemp ave Briggs street, east from N. Eagle Brooklyn street, from River north to Houghton Brooklyn Terrace, from Brooklyn to Chase ave east Brown street, from W. Main north to River Braytonville, located at the west end of Main Bryant street, from 41 Houghton west Burdickville, hill northwest of Johnson M'f'g. Co.'s works Cady street, north from 47 North Canal street, from cor River and Eagle to Union
Card street, from Cemetery west parallel with W. Main Central avenue, from 10 Franklin north Center street, from 55 Eagle west to Marshall Center street alley, south from Center, opp. Ryan's lane Chase avenue, from River to N. Holden
Cherry street, from 27 Pleasant east to Meadow
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Chestnut street, from 9 Spring west Church place, from 121 Main to Summer, next Congregational Ch Church street, from monument south to city limits Clark street, from Harrison ave to Greylock ave Cleveland avenge, from Gallup to Kemp Cliff, from Union at Print works north to Glen avenue Corinth street, from Lawrence ave south Cottage place, west from 109 Eagle to Bracewell ave Crossey place, from 40 River north Crowley avenue, west from 31 Ashland Davenport street, from Ashland north to Church Dean street, west from 187 S. State Dover street, from Elmwood ave to Cherry Dowlin place, off Pleasant west Duggan street, west to Hathaway East avenue, east from Glen ave East Cliff street, from Cliff east to Glen ave
East High street, from Summit ave to Kemp ave Eagle street, from Main north to Franklin
East Johnson street, east from 32 E. Union
East Main street, from monument east to beyond Five Roads.
East Quincy street, from 7 Pleasant east to Kemp ave
East Rock street, from Holbrook south East Union street, east from Union East Brooklyn street, from 41 Brooklyn northeast to city limits Elm street, from Grant north to Sperry ave Elmwood avenue, east from Willow street to Dover across Church Estes street, from North Eagle west to Hospital Fairfield avenue, west from 76 Holden Fairground avenue, north from West Main Feige street, west from 28 E. Brooklyn to Honghton Fern street, from Summit ave to Glen ave First street, west from West End Terrace Fleming street, from Park ave east to Kemp ave Folsom street, north from Cleveland ave Forest street, south from Richmond ave Franklin street, from Eagle and Liberty northwest to Wells ave Francis street, from 77 State west Frederick street, from 31 Houghton west Freeman avenue, from 204 River street north to Bracewell ave Front street, east from Cliff
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Fuller street, from 46 Houghton west Furnace street, from Main south Gallup street, from 194 E. Main to E. Union Glen avenue, from Clarksburg road to north branch of Hoosac river Goodrich street, west from 122 W. Main Grace street, from Richmond ave south Grant street, from 13 Lincoln west to Elm Granite street, from Rock south Greylock street, from State south and west to city line Grove street, from Bracewell ave north to Hall Grover street, north from Cleveland ave Hall street, west from 123 Eagle to N. Holden Harris street, north from River Extension Harrison avenue, south 61 E. Quincy Hathaway street, from North south to Harris High street, from 10 W. Main south Highland avenue, from Lawrence ave to Davenport st Hodge's crossing, from south end of State east Holbrook street, from 12 Wall east to Meadow Holden street, from Main north to River Hooker street, from 109 State west Hoosac court, entrance 92 Main Hoosac street, from S. Church west to Ashland Houghton street, from Brooklyn north into Clarksburg Howland Farms, formerly Zylonite end of S. State IIudson street, from 120 Eagle east to Prospect Irving avenue, from Whitman west Jackson street, from 110 Eagle, Larkin corner, east to Prospect Jolin street, north from Front to Maple Johnson street, northeast from E. Union Jones Hill, in Clarksburg North Houghtonville Kemp avenue, south from 213 E. Main to Bradley Kemp street, north from 210 E. Main to E. Union Knox street, off of High Lake street, runs south, east side of Park Lamoureux place, from High west Lawrence avenue, from 135 Ashland east Lincoln street, from 76 Centre north to river Liberty street, from 35 Brooklyn east to 135 Eagle Loftus street, north from 36 River Luther street, from 83 Eagle west and north Main street, from Five Points west to Braytonville
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Maple street, east from Beach
Marion avenue, south through West End Park from W. Main Marshall street, from 12 Main north to River Marietta street, from 8 Franklin north Meadow street, from Cherry north to E. Quincy Miner street, east from corner E. Main and Pleasant
Montana street, from 10 Porter street south to Lawrence ave Montgomery street, from 25 Prospect east to Cliff Morris street, from Summer south to Quincy Morton Hill, continued from Walnut south Mowbray avenue, west from Whitman North street, from 41 Brooklyn west to Tyler North Church street, from Monument north to Eagle
North Eagle street, from 143 Eagle north to Clarksburg line North Holden street, from 156 River north to Liberty Northern Lights avenue, from 22 Franklin north Notch road, from D. M. Wells house south O'Brien lane, off 29 Eagle Olds street, from Harrison ave to Greylock
Palmer avenue, west from Hathaway
Palmer avenue, west of 95 S. Church
Park avenue, south from 207 E. Main Pattison street, west from Notch road Pearl street, from 9 Main south Pebble street, from Robinson south
Perry street, from Washington ave south to Elmwood ave.
Phillips street, north from Liberty Phoenix street, north from 4 Main
Pleasant street, from 151 E. Main to 48 Church Potter place, from 87 Eagle west Porter street, from 67 Church west to 83 Ashland
Prospect street, from 98 Eagle east thence north to Franklin Quincy street, from 17 Church west to Morris Rand's lane, east 32 Ashland Rand street, from Union school to 13 Reed
Ray street, from 11 Franklin south to Wesleyan Raymond court, east from Brooklyn Reservoir road, continuation of Furnace south east Reed street, north from Main to Union Richmond avenue, west from High Richview avenue, southwest from 123 W. Main Richview street, east from Dover River street, from 93 Eagle west to Brown
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River street extension, from River west to Burdickville Rock street, from Pebble west to Granite Robinson street, from 37 Furnace west to Pebble Royal avenue, south from 25 Washington ave to Porter st Sanford's lane, from Washington ave south Second street, west from West End terrace School street, west from 14 Veazie South street, from 26 Spring to Washington ave Spring street, from 27 Church southwest to 31 Washington ave State street, from 34 Main south to city limits Summer street, from 7 Church west to State Summit avenue, from 199 E. Main south (Kempville) Summit street, from Beacon north to Clarksburg Tannery yard, right above first Union bridge Third street, west from West End terrace Tyler street, north from River to North Tremont street, from Prospect north to Franklin Union street, from 68 Eagle east Vadner lane, north 72 Main Veazie street, north from 56 River Vincent avenue, from 207 E. Main south to E. Quincy Walden street, west from Fairground ave Wall street, from 7 E. Quincy south to Cherry Walker street, from Five Roads north to Clarksburg and Stamford Walnut street, west and south from I17 State Washington avenue, from 51 Church west to Ashland Warren street, from Richmond ave south Webster avenue, from 74 Holden west Wells avenue, from Summit street north Wesleyan street, from 136 Eagle to Wesleyan extension Wesleyan extension, from Wesleyan to Summit West End Park, bounded by W. Main street and Notch road West End Terrace, south through West End park Wheeler avenue, head of Houghton street Clarksburg Whitman street, from Richmond ave south Willow Dell, from 17 Union southeast to Miner William street, north from 43 North Willow street, from Washington ave south Winter street, east from 14 Elmwood ave Witt avenue, south from Furnace Witt street, from Richmond ave south
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