Memphis Commercial Appeal Mid-South Memories April 18, 2012<\/p>\n
April 18, 1912 Memphis will not have automobile mail service.\u00a0 The contract for transporting the mail from the Post Office to the depots and back has been awarded to Dr. J.T. Spence for $9000 a year.\u00a0 He will use the screened wagons that have carried the mails for the past eight years, the use of automobiles being too high in cost.<\/p>\n
Around 1912 the automobile was seen as an answer to the pressing pollution problem of the day in major cities such as Chicago and New York, what to do with the mountains of horse manure discarded from the streets.\u00a0 Brownstone homes in New York\u00a0were built with elevated first floors to escape manure ladened rain run-off from seeping into street level homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Memphis Commercial Appeal Mid-South Memories April 18, 2012 April 18, 1912 Memphis will not have automobile mail service.\u00a0 The contract for transporting the mail from the Post Office to the depots and back has been awarded to Dr. J.T. Spence … Continue reading