City Directory question about only letters as names.
Batch [MQR8-ZRS] for example. There are many.
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So what's the question? You missed a W in entry 8, but otherwise the first 34 you've done look correct to me.
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Example: Wagner, Rose Rt 3 Bx 121. The RFD is the rural free delivery that the past office has to deliver mail to rural costumers throughout the US. Rt. 3 may have 20-50 customers, all with a different box number.
The farmers have mail boxes at the end of the driveway and a rural mail carrier makes the rounds every day to deliver the mail. In the above example the only thing to index would be Wagner, Rose. I hope this is what you were talking about. Have a good day
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These entries (probably) went by their initials. From the looks of it, the directory is from the 1st part of the 20th Century, where going by your initials was still in fashion. R E Bishop's full name could be Ronald Eugene or Rachel Elizabeth, etc. You are indexing them correctly.
Nothing else, like Rt 1, Box 111, is indexed. Prior to the end of WWII, America was still very rural and the smaller towns would either have a RFD (Rural Free Delivery) or it was in c/o the Postmaster of that town or you would just mail the letter to Aunt Izzy to Smithville, Iowa. Heck, even my town, into the early 1960s, would list someone's address (which trips me out) as Rural Roue 3 or R. R. 3.0
