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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