ANTIQUE

VINTAGE 1900s

"CURVIN J JULIUS" 1908 REGISTRY RETURN RECEIPT 

&

1901 "ROBERT J. LEWIS" CARD 

CURVIN J. JULIUS CARD IS APPROXIMATELY 5" LONG  x  3" WIDE

ROBERT J. LEWIS CARD IS APPROXIMATELY 4" LONG  x  2 1/2" WIDE

BOTH ITEMS HAVE BEEN STORED IN A PROTECTIVE SLIPCOVER

Curvin J Julius was a resident of the York, Dover, & East Berlin area in the state of Pennsylvania, around the turn of the century. Born in the 1800's Julius had received an article of business-related mail that came from an Israel Wehler. It was date-stamped JAN 2, 1908. The item included with this purchase is the receipt card for that article.  

Robert Jacob Lewis (December 30, 1864 – July 24, 1933) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. 

He was born in Dover, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools of York, Pennsylvania and graduated from high school in 1883. He taught in the public schools until September 1889. He graduated from the law department of Yale University in 1891, and was admitted to the New Haven, Connecticut bar in June 1891, and to the bar of York County, Pennsylvania in August 1891. He commenced practice in York. 

He was elected school controller of York in 1893 and reelected in 1897 and 1903. He was elected city solicitor in 1895. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1898. Lewis was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1902. He returned to the practice of law, and died in Camden, Arkansas, in 1933.

The item included with this purchase was a promotional business card endorsing Robert J. Lewis as the Republican nominee for Congress.

PLEASE NOTE: Someone wrote the words Bohema Tea on the back of the card. [SEE PHOTOS]

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