Original News Photo - Print.  Miss Melvina Starns with chain letters in Denver Post Office.   US, 1935.

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[Text pasted on back of photograph:]

CC 217837 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHICAGO BUREAU

DENVER POST OFFICE FLOODED WITH CHAIN LETTERS

Postmaster Stevic at Denver, Colorado has had to put on over a hundred substitute postal clerks to handle the extra mail in the office which has reached Holiday size, because of a new "chain letter" drive in the city. Miss Melvina Starns is shown above with some of the chain letters which have clogged the office.
BFM 26  YOUR CREDIT MUST READ ACME     4-28-35

[Stamped at an angle below in three lines] REF. DEPT.   MAY 3 1935   N.E.A.

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Purchased on eBay from rfleetjr.  Entered by DWV, March 23, 2015.

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