are in receipt of advices from their San Francisco office regarding the establishment of an overland air mail service from San Francisco to New York, which will be of considerable interest to merchants in China, and to the public generally. This air mail is despatched from San Francisco daily at 6 am. arriving at Chicago at 7.20 a.m. an? at New York 6.05 p.m. on the fol lowing day. In other words, a let-at San Francisco from [Shanghai on August 1 would be delivered in New York on the evening of August 8. Only first-class mail is to be transported by this service, the rates of postage being G30.08 per ounce or fraction of an ounce from San Francisco to and including Cheyenne, Wyoming, 16 per ounce or fraction ta, Chicago, and G$024 per ounce or fraction to New York and other ports on the Atlantic seaboard.
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