Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Grandma Sends Baby To Mom Via Parcel Post, 1914

From the Washington Herald (Washington, D.C.), March 18, 1914

With Stamps on Brow and Tag Around Neck, Babe Makes Trip of Twelve Miles by Mail

Hagerstown, Md., March 17—Rural Mail Carrier B.H. Knepper hauled today a 14-pound baby from Clear Spring to the home of its mother in Indian Springs, 12 miles distant, by parcel post.

The child’s grandmother at Clear Spring had been caring for it, and the mother, anxious to see her babe, telephoned her mother to send it home. The grandmother, sick and unable to make the trip, thought of the parcel post, which solved the problem.

The grandmother tagged the baby around the neck and the postage stamps were stuck on its brow.

The 12-mile trip was made without the baby, which slept all the way, giving a single whimper, and inside of an hour or two the mother was hugging her child.

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