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Features and Departments
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Your new, improved City Directory is the most complete and comprehensive catalog ever published of the inhabit- ants, business concerns and institutions of your city. It is much more than just an alphabetical list of names and addresses.

Your City Directory Contains:

1	An Alphabetical list of names and addresses of every resident, business concern and Institution, plus wife's name and if a widow the deceased husband's initial, and the occupations of all. Principal officers or owners and a description of businesses are included as well.
2	A Householders' Directory including a Street and Avenue Guide. This section lists every street and where intersecting streets appear.It lists numerically every location on each street, naming the householder or business at each number and whether the person is a homeowner or renter and if he has a telephone. Similar information is provided on office and public buildings and their occupants.
3	A Classified Business Directory- listing every business, classified as to type, and showing names and addresses. It also lists every profession, club, sociely and association, hospital and cemetery, labor organization, library, park and playground and school.
4	A "Yellow Section" or Buyers' Guide, where the advertiser may explain in greater detail the services or products he has to offer.
5	A Statistical and Historical Story of your city; plus miscellaneous other information.

U. S. POSTAL INFORMATION

POSTAGE RATES AND CLASSIFICATION   For information regarding classifica- tion, postage rates, and mailability of domestic mail of all classes, entry and mailing of publications as second-class matter, metered and permit mail, bulk rate mailings of third-class matter, Business Reply Cards and Envelopes, apply at your local post office.   DOMESTIC POSTAL RATES First Class   LETTERS: 3 cents for each ounce or fraction of an ounce. (Local delivery same rate.)   POST CARDS or POSTAL CARDS: 2 cents each within prescribed sizes.   BUSINESS REPLY CARDS: 3 cents each; Air mail, 5 cents each.   BUSINESS REPLY ENVELOPES: Business reply envelopes 1 cent in addition to regular postage. Apply at Post Office for Permit. Second-Class (Rates Effective April 1, 1952)   NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS (Transient rate): 2 cents for the first 2 ounces, and 1 cent for each additional. 2 ounces or fourth class rate, whichever is lower. Third-Class   (Limit 8 ounces)--On circulars and other miscellaneous printed matter, also on merchandise, 2c for the first 2 ounces or fraction, plus lc for each additional ounce or fraction.   On books and catalogs having 24 or more pages; also, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions, and plants--2 cents for first 2 ounces and 1½ cents for each additional 2 ounces. Bulk Rate For Details Consult Your Local Postmaster Fourth-Class-(Parcel Post) The present size and weight limits for fourth class (parcel post) will continue to apply in all cases except for parcels mailed at a first class office for delivery to another first class office in which case the size is limited ,to 72 inches length and girth, 40 pounds in weight to the first and second zones, and 20 pounds in weight in the third to the eighth zones. Exceptions to the new size and weight restrictions are;   (1) Baby fowl, live plants, trees, shrubs, or agricultural commodities (not including manufactured products thereof).   (2) Books, permanently bound for preservation, consisting wholly of reading matter or reading matter with incidental blank spaces for students' notations and containing no advertising matter other than incidental announcements of books.   (3) Parcels mailed in the United States, including the District of Columbia, for delivery by any Army or Fleet post office or in any Territory or possession of the United States, including the Canal Zone and Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, or mailed at any Army or Fleet post office or in any Territory or possession of the United States, including the Canal Zone and Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, for delivery in the United States, including the District of Columbia, or any Army or Fleet post office or any Territory or possession thereof, including the Canal Zone and Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.   It is not contemplated that the provisions of this law shall be evaded or circumvented by diverting parcels exceeding the prescribed limits of size and weight from first class offices and mailing the parcels at offices of the second, third or fourth class or on rural or star routes. first Additional Zone pound pounds Cents Cents Local 15 1.25 1 and 2 17 2.4 3 17 3.5 4 19 4.75 5 21 6.75 6 23 8.25 7 25 11.50 8 27 14.00 AIR MAIL SERVICE United States Air Mail Service   Six cents for each ounce or fraction thereof; limit of weight 8 ounces; to any part of the United States. May be registered, insured, sent C. 0. D. or Special Delivery.   Post Cards 4 cents each.   Air mail stamps and distinctively stamped envelopes are issued for pre- payment of postage on air mail. Ord- inary stamps may also be used.   Air mail should be plainly marked "VIA AIR MAIL" in the space immediately below the stamps and above the address.   Canada (same as above except weight limit of 60 lbs). Air Mail Mexico   Rate of postage to Mexico: Six cents for each ounce.   Dispatched by the United States Air Mail Service and in Canada or in Mexico by the Air Mail Services in those countries. For additional information telephone your local post office.

United States Air Mail Service to Central America, South America, the West Indies and other Foreign Countries.   For information regarding this service telephone your local post office. Air Parcel Post   Air postage on parcels weighing 8 oz, or less is 6c per oz. Over 8 oz Additional Zones to 1 Ib. pounds 1,2 and 3 60c 48c 4 65c 50c 5 70c 56c 6 75c 64c 7 75c 72c 8 80c 80c SPECIAL SERVICE FEES IN ADDITION TO REGULAR POSTAGE SPECIAL DELIVERY FEES on all classes of mail including Air Mail: First Other Weight Class Classes Not over 2 lb. 20c 35c Over 2, not over 10 lb. 85c 45c Over 10 lbs. 50c 60c SPECIAL HANDLING (Without Special Delivery) FOURTH CLASS: 2 pounds or less, 15 cents; over 2, not over 10 pounds, 20 cents; over 10 pounds, 25 cents.   "Special Handling" must be so indorsed. DOMESTIC ORDINARY MAIL SENDERS' RECEIPTS FOR A receipt (certificate of mailing) is furnished the sender of domestic ordinary mail of any class upon payment of 1 cent for each piece. This fee does not insure against loss, rifling or damage, but merely furnishes evidence of mailing, and no receipt will be obtained from the addressee on delivery. Additional duplicate receipts may be obtained upon payment of 1 cent each. Money Order Fees Limit for each money order is $100. Fee Amount of Money Order Cents From $0.01 to $ 5.00 .....10 From 5.01 td 10.00 .....18 from 10.01 to 5O.OO .....25 From 50.01 to 100.00 .....35 Registry Domestic mail matter prepaid at the first-class rate of postage, may be registered against loss, rifling or damageupon payment of the following fees: REGISTERED MAIL Registra- Indemnity limit tion fee No Indemnity* $0.30 $ 0.01 to $ 5.OO .... .40 5.01 to 25.00 .... .55 25.01 to 50.00 .... .65 50.01 to 75.00 .... .75 75.01 to 100.00 .... .85 100.01 to 200.00 .... .95 200.01 to 300.00 .... 1.05 3OO.OI to 400.00 .... 1.15 400.01 to 5OO.OO .... 1.25 500.01 to 600.00 .... 1.35 600.01 to 700.00 .... 1.45 700.01 to 800.00 .... 1.55 800.01 to 900.00 .... 1.65 900.01 to 1000.00 .... 1.75 * The minimum registration fee does not provide for indemnification in the event of loss, rifling, or damage, and is applicable only to matter having no intrinsic value, such as correspondence, notices and the like. Matter having intrinsic value, or involving cost of duplication of contents in the event of loss, rifling, or damage, requires a registration fee in excess of 30 cents. SURCHARGES For Details Consult Your Local Postmaster COLLECT-ON-DELIVERY (Third and Fourth Class Mail) C. O. D. FEES (Unregistered) For collections and in- Fee demnity not to exceed Cents $ 5.00 ................. 30 10.00 ................. 40 25.00 ................. 60 50.00 ................. 70 100.00 ................. 80 150.00 ................. 90 200.00 ................ 100 DOMESTIC INSURED MAIL Fee Amount of Insurance Cents $ 0.01 to $ 05.00 ......... 5 5.01 to 10.00 ......... 10 10.01 to 25.00 ......... 15 25.01 to 50.00 ......... 20 50.01 to 100.00 ..........30 100.01 to 200.00 ..........35 RETURN RECEIPTS for domestic numbered insured mail. No Return Receipts issued for parcels insured at the minimum fee of 5 cents.) Fee When requested at time of mailing 7c When requested after mailing.... 15c Showing address where delivered. 30c AIDS TO PROPER MAILING   Write name and address plainly and completely.   Place name and address of sender on all matter.   Prepay postage fully on all letters and parcels.   Always address mail for city delivery to street and number and request correspondents to do likewise.   Use designation North or South East or West when it is a proper part of the address and save delay in delivery.   Insure valuable parcels except those containing small articles of considerable value which should be registered.   Wrap parcel post carefully in heavy paper and tie knots securely.   You will often gain a day's time in delivery by depositing mail as soon as it is ready.   Use Postal Unit numbers on mail addressed to cities where Unit Numbers are required.

POLK CITY DIRECTORIES

ALABAMA Anniston Bessemer Birmingham Dothan Gadsden Mobile Montgomery Selma Tuscaloosa ARKANSAS Camden El Dorado Fayetteville Fort Smith Hot Springs Jonesboro Little Rock Malvern Pine Bluff Rogers Texarkana CALIFORNIA Alhambra Bakersfield Burbank Chico & Ororville Culver City Downey Eureka Fresno Hayward Imperial Valley Ingelwood Long Beach Los Angeles Marysville Merced & Madera Modesto Monrovia Monterey Napa Oakland & Berkeley Ontario Palo Alto Pasadena Pelaluma Pittsburg Pomona Redding Redondo Beach Redwood City Richmond Riverside Sacramento Salineas San Bernadino San Bruno San Diego San Fernando San Francisco San Jose San Luis Obispo County San Pedro Santa Barbara Santa Cruz & Watsonville Santa Monica Santa Rosa Stockton Taft Temple City Tulare County Vallejo Ventura County Wittier Woodland COLORADO Boulder Colorado Springs Denver Denver House- Holders Grand Junctioin Pueblo DELAWARE Wilmington DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington FLORIDA Bradenton Clearwater Daytona Beach DeLand Fort Myers Fort Pierce Jacksonville Jacksonville Beaches Lakeland Miami New Smyrna Beach Ocala Orlando Palatka Pensacola St. Augustine St. Petersburg St. Petersburgs Gulf Beaches Sanford Sarasota Tallahassee Tampa West Palm Beach

GEORGIA Atlanta Augusta Brunswick Columbus Dalton LaGrange Macon Rome Savannah Valdosta TERRITORY of HAWAII Honolulu IDAHO Boise Caldwell Coeur D'Alene Idaho Falls Lewiston Nampa Payette Pocatello Twin Falls Welser ILLINOIS Aurora Belleville Bloomington Canton Champaign & Urbana Danville Decatur DeKalb East St. Louis Edwardsville Elgin Evanston Freeport Galesburg Jacksonville Joliet Kankakee Kewanee La Salle & Peru Lincoln Mattoon Morris Ottawa Pekin Peoria Pontiac Rockford Rock Island & Moline St. Charles Springfield Sterling & Rock Falls Streator Tri-Cities Waukegan INDIANA Bedford Bloomington Brazil Columbus Crawfordsville Decatur Elkhart Evansville Fort Wayne Frankfort Gary Goshen Hammond Huntington Indianapolis Jeffersonville Kokomo Lafayette LaPorte Logansport Marion Michigan City Mishawaka Muncie New Albany Peru Richmond Seymour Shelbyville South Bend Terre Haute Valparaiso Vincennes Warsaw Washington IOWA Ames Boone Burlington Cedar Falls Cedar Rapids Charles City Council Bluffs Davenport Des Moines Dubuque Fort Dodge Fort Madison Iowa City Keokuk Marshalltown Mason City

IOWA--Contd. Muscatine Newton Oskaloosa Ottumwa Sioux City Spencer Waterloo KANSAS Atchison Chanute Coffeyville El Dorado Emporia Fort Scott Hutchison Independence Kansas City Leavenworth Manhattan Ottawa Pittsburg Salina Topeka Wichita Winfield KENTUCKY Ashland Bowling Green Covington Danville Frankfort Hopkinsville Lexington Louisville Newport Owensboro Paducah Paris Somerset Winchester LOUISIANA Baton Rouge Bogalusa Jennings Lafayette Lake Charles New Orleans Shreveport MARYLAND Annapolis Baltimore Cumberland Frederick Hagerstown MASSACHUSETTS Amesbury Attleboro Boston Danvers Everett Fall River Fitchburg Subn Gloucester Lawrence Lowell Lowell Subn Lynn Lynn Subn Malden Marblehead Newburyport Newton Peabody Rockport Salem Taunton Waltham Weymouth Worcester Worcester House Worcester Subn. MICHIGAN Adrain Alma Alpena Ann Arbor Battle Creek Bay City Benton Harbot Birmingham Cadillac Charlotte Dearborn Detroit Down River East Detroit Escanaba Flint Grand Haven Grand Rapids Hastings Holland Jackson Kalamazoo Lansing Lincoln Park Ludington Manistee Marquette Marshall Menominee Monroe Muskegon

MICHIGAN--Contd. Owosso Petoskey Plymouth Pontiac Royal Oak Saginaw Sault Ste. Marie Traverse City Wayne Ypsilanti MINNESOTA Albert Lea Austin Bemidji Brainerd Crookston Duluth East Grand Forks Fairmont Faribault Fergus Falls Hibbing Mankato Minneapolis Moorhead Northfield Owatonna Red Wing Rochester St. Cloud St. Paul South St. Paul Stillwater Virginia Winona MISSISSIPPI Brookhaven Clarksdale Greenville Hattiesburg McComb Meridian Natches Viscksburg MISSOURI Cape Girardeau Carthage Columbia Hannibal Independence Joplin Kansas City St. Charles St. Joseph St. Louis St. Louis County Sedalia Springfield Webb City MONTANA Anaconda Billings Bozeman Butte Great Falls Havre Helena Kalispell Lewiston Livingston Miles City Missoula NEBRASKA Beatrice Fremont Hastings Kearney Lincoln McCook Norfolk North Platte Omaha Scottsbluff NEVADA Reno NEW HAMPSHIRE Manchester NEW JERSEY Asbury Park Atlantic City Bound Brook Bridgeton Camden Freehold Hackensack Long Branch Millville Morristown New Brunswick Newton Ocean City Perth Amboy Phillipsburg Plainfield Princeton Rahway Red Bank Salem Somerville Vineland Westfield Wildwood

NEW MEXICO Albuquerque Carlsbad Clovis Gallup Hobbs Proales Roswell Santa Fe Tucumcari NEW YORK Albany Auburn Buffalo Cohoes Dunkirk & Fredonia Frankfort Herkimer Hudson Ilion Jamestown Larchmont Little Falls Lockport Medina Mohawk New Rochelle Niagra Falls Olean Oswego Peekskill Poughkeepsie Rochester Rochester Subn. Rome Syracuse Tonawandas Troy Utica Watertown Watervliet White Plains NORTH CAROLINA Albemarle Asheville Burlington Charlotte Concord Durham Fayetteville Gastonia Goldsboro Greensboro High Point Kannapolis Kingston Raleigh Rocky Mount Sanford Wilmington Wilson Winston-Salem NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck Fargo Grand Forks Mandan Minot Valley City OHIO Ashland Ashtabula Athns Bedford Bellefontaine Bucyrus Chillicothe Cincinnati Cleveland Cleveland Heights Columbus Dayton Delaware East Liverpool Euclid Findlay Fostoria Galton Greenville Hamilton Hamilton County Ironton Lakewood Lancaster Lima Lorain Marietta Marion Middletown Newark Parma Piqua Portsmouth Salem Sandusky Shelby Sidney Springfield Tiffin Toledo Toronto Troy Urbana Washington C. H. Xenia

OKLAHOMA Ardmore Bartelsmore Blackwell Chickashe Enid Lawton McAlestee Miami Muskagee Oklahoma City Okmulgee Ponca City Sapulpa Shawnee Tulsa OREGON Astora Baker Bend Coos County Eugene Hod River Klamath Falls La Grande Medford Ontario Pendleton Portland Salem The Dalles PENNSYLVANIA Allentown Altoona Bethlehem Butler Carbondale Carlisle Carnegie Chester Clearfield Connelsville DuBois Easton Erie Franklin Greensburg Greenville Grove City Hanover Harrisburg Hazleton Homestead Jeannette Johnstown Lancaster Lebanon McKeesport McSherrystown Meadville New Kensington Norristown Oil City Pittsburgh Pittston Pottstown Pottsville Reading Scranton Shamokin Sharon Sunbury Uniontown Warren Washington Waynesboro West Chester Wilkes-Barre Wilkinsburg Williamsport York RHODE ISLAND Cranston East Providence Pacatuck Pawtucket Providence Westerly Woonsocket SOUTH CAROLINA Anderson Columbia Greenville Rock Hill Spartanburg SOUTH DAKOTA Aberdeen Huron Mitchell Rapid City Sioux Falls Watertown Yankton TENNESSEE Bristol Memphis Nashville TEXAS Abilene Amarillo Austin Beaumont Big Spring

TEXAS--Contd. Claburne Corsicana Dallas Denison El Paso Fort Worth Galveston Grand Prairie Houston Lamesa Lubbock Midland Orange Pampa Paris Port Arthur San Angelo San Antonio Sherman Texarkana Tyler Vernon Waco Wichita Falls UTAH Logan Ogden Provo Salt Lake City VIRGINIA Alexandria Bristol Charlottesville Danville Lynchburg Newport News- Hampton Norfolk-Portsmouth Petersburg Richmond Roanoke Staunton Suffolk WASHINGTON Aberdeen & Hoquiam Bellingham Bremerton Centralia Ellensburg Everett Kelso & Longview Olympia Port Angeles Puyallup Renton Seattle Skagit County Spokane Tacoma Vancouver Walla Walle Wenatchee & Chelan Yakima WEST VIRGINIA Beckley Bluefield Charleston Clarksburg Elkins Fairmont Huntington Martinsburg Morgantown Moundsville Parkersburg Weston Wheeling WISCONSIN Ashland Beloit Eau Claire Fond du Lac Green Bay Jamesville Kenosha La Crosse Madison Marinette Marshfield Milwaukee Oshkosh Racine Rhinelander Sheboygan Stevens Point Superior Watertown Waukesha Wausau Wauwatosa West Allis WYOMING Casper Cheyenne Laramie Rock Springs Sheridaon

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