"FERROVIA" in the cancel, literally "iron way" or "iron road" in Italian, means railway. "MESSINA FERROVIA," the Messina line, one of the major lines on Sicily with trunk routes to Palermo and Siracusa via Catania. Likely mailed from one of those cities and canceled en route either to Palermo or Messina where it would have transferred either to an ocean vessel (at Palermo or Messina) or possibly crossed the Strait of Messina on a rail barge and then continued up the boot.
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