Street letter box patented in Philadelphia

In Philadelphia, Albert Potts patents the first street letter box .  The box makes its appearance in Boston and New York City in August. (By John Osborne)
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Joseph Nathan Kane, ed., Famous First Facts (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1981), .
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