Cover Calendar For Month And Day -Pics

A question about the postmark on the last cover. It says Maxwell, Nebraska. According to everything I can search on the internet Maxwell is an active post office in a small town with a population of about 300 or so. However, the USPS web site does not recognize Maxwell, Nebraska as a post office in their search string. Anyone know if that post office recently closed or is it just an error in the USPS web site? (BTW, if you search for that location on Google maps, it shows a vacant lot on a desolate stretch of roadway--you have to advance forward a couple of miles to see the actual town post office on S. Pine St.)

The USPS Postmaster Finder shows the Maxwell, NE office as being established in 1867 and there is no discontinued date given -- the last postmaster there was appointed in 2001.

However, entering the Maxwell Zip (69151) in the "Find a Location" gives the Moorefield post office as the nearest location. Perhaps they are shutting down the Maxwell office.

I found the same results on the Maxwell, NE post office. However, this newspaper article from about a month ago suggests that the PO will stay open but with reduced hours (4 hours per day):

http://www.nptelegraph.com/news/sho...7d11630.html

From Boston, MA on July 18, 1888 with American bar cancellation:

You can't post that previous cover without explaining what was the organization noted in the return address defined as the "Home Market Club" of Boston?

I found this obscure excerpt from a period publication that may help explain it, but I'm still not too sure if this is what the "Club" was all about:

The below may provide clarity on the aims of the Boston Market Club. The communication transmitted in the cover was likely about garnering support on a trade-related issue -- unfortunately, I only have the cover so I can only make an educated guess on its content.

Here is one for the 19th-

Here is a postcard for today.

Do you know the history of the addressee of that 1908 postcard addressed to Stanley Cox? If not, check this out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_C._Cox

Neat story about Stanley Cox. Thanks for sharing.

My submission for July 20th -- a Scott 922 on cover mailed from Detroit, MI to Houston, TX in 1944:

From Haverhill, MA on July 22, 1896:



For those who have been paying attention, this cover was sent to the same addressee in my July 14th Haverhill posting (see wt1's post on J.H. Winchell & Co.).

I knew some of it... He was my great grandfather .

For July 23rd, this cover mailed from Toledo, OH to London, Ontario in 1899; it has a Barry oval with parallel line machine cancel.

I found this while surfing the web...a picture postcard of Lake Erie Park in its heyday. Apparently it was in operation from 1895-1910, at which time it was destroyed by fire:



Here's a more recent news article in which they want to bring back a walking trail in approximately the same area in 2012:

http://www.toledonewsnow.com/story/...-begins-soon