Ione California 1904 U.S. Postal Money Order Advice Sutter Creek 3.5 x 5.5

This document was issued in 1904 as a U.S. Postal Money Order advice form from the post office in Ione, California.

Postal money orders were widely used in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a secure method for transferring funds through the United States Post Office Department. Before widespread banking access in rural communities, these forms allowed individuals to safely send payments between towns using the established postal network. Advice forms like this one served as official notification of a money order issued through a local post office.

The form is printed with the heading U.S. Postal Money Order Advice and identifies the issuing office as Ione, California with serial number 10051. Handwritten entries record a payment made to Mrs. Virginia Brown in the amount of seventy cents and addressed to the postmaster at Sutter Creek, California. The document includes the signature of W. A. Bennett as postmaster and lists Mrs. Jennie Larson as the remitter, along with a dated postal marking from February 1904.

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