Cover Calendar For Month And Day -Pics

It's interesting how they placed the stamp so it would be cancelled by the postmark rather than the killer.

December 31 1956. Extra postage and certified. Someone wanted to be sure the bill was paid. My grandmother saved this and other covers from the dumpster when she worked in the lay-by department at J.C. Penney.



Requested return receipt still on the cover. So much for paying extra for more service. I hope the payment got in on time.

January 1 1937. Congratulations to the Cardinals! Good game Badgers!

More about the addressee of the Tournament of Roses cover from 1937. If this is the same addressee, he was only 15 years old at the time. Possibly a family member sent it to him for his stamp collection:

What a great idea! I have browsed through all these posts and find them great! I looked through all my covers and guess what? I don't have a single one postmarked in January! I have a good one for Feb. 1st though. regards, yakboomer.

Welcome to SFC, yakboomer! And welcome to the Cover Calendar thread! I'm looking forward to seeing your covers.

January 2 1932



The cover was sent from a Masonic lodge to a patient in The Veterans' Hospital near Fort Snelling in Minnesota.

Online there were at least 3 generations of Walter H McLeods in Minnesota. The one that would fit the timing of this cover was a US Special Agent of the Department of the Interior, who took the census of the "loyal" members of the Mdewakanton Band of the Sioux Nation who lived in Minnesota in 1886. Loyalty was demonstrated by proclaiming loyalty to the United States, by severing tribal relations and by proving "faithful to whites" during the Sioux uprising of 1862.

On a less serious note, C B Askew was an employee of the St Paul Electric Works and the inventor of "Alarm for protection of graves" (US Patent ?) and "Life detecting and preserving apparatus" (US Patent 17785).

Vintage Reprints Reproduction Patent Artworks features the latter patent in the "Novelty, Funny, Absurd, Morbid" category in their catalog.
http://vintage-reprints.com/catalog...7-17785.html

Ironically, Askew filed this patent application in 1886, at the same time that McLeod was taking the Mdewakanton census.

January 3 1987. I hope our Minnesota members remember Nick Susuki. What a great guy!

kehess,
I have a bunch of covers addressed to Nick Susuki, but I do not know him. Can you tell me more? He obviously was a local collector, but I don't remember him from any clubs or shows.
Pat

I met Nick through the 3M stamp club in the late 1980s. I didn't know him well but he made an impression on me because he was one of the most enthusiastic and positive people I have ever met. His job included quite a bit of international travel and he spent much of his down-time with his stamps. He would take some with him to study and he would buy more wherever he was. When passing a stamp vending machine he liked to throw in a few coins to see if could stumble on some coil errors. It always seemed like playing Vegas slots to me, but sometimes he found some! Nick died of leukemia not long after I met him. He was in his mid-30s.

More on Nick Susuki's battle with leukemia:

http://articles.latimes.com/1992-10...marrow-donor

January 5 1903



William Bainbridge Folwell attended the General Service and Staff College at Fort Leavenworth KS. He graduated in 1903 as a 1st lieutenant in the 1st Infantry. He went on to serve as a captain in the Spanish American War.

His father, William Watts Folwell, was the first president of the University of Minnesota.

http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/...arc00718.xml

January 6 1892

January 9 1985 Cancelled twice

January 12 1876