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  The Pony Expess mail servies begin, but ended a year later when the Transcontinenal telegraph service started
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  Abraham Lincoln beacame president
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  congress initiates free mail delivery in cites
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  Aberham Lincoln is killed by a assassinater five days after the Civil War endeded
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  Congress authorizes a five cent coin called the nickel
