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I found this in a postal history newsletter. Seems as though it's an interesting connection to the same S. C. White of Winona, Minnesota, as noted on the previous postal card. Note that he's also said to have been a wholesale grocery supplier to to the pioneer grocers of the Dakota Territory:  |
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Very interesting, wt1! Thank you. I don't see a star in the killer. Where is it relative to Washington's face? |
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January 13 1942  Fort Leonard Wood was established in 1940 so it was fairly new at the time this was posted. |
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I don't see a star in the killer. Where is it relative to Washington's face? I can't speak to that reference, as I was merely looking at the addresee's name when I posted it. If you care to look at the source document, it's at this link (see page 12) but it does take awhile to download the rather large pdf file. Still, it's a very interesting postal history newsletter, for those interested: http://www.dakotapostalhistorysocie...XXVI-No1.pdf |
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January 16 1931  https://sites.google.com/site/aastampclub/history Quote:
On December 8th 1928 Mr Coryell, Prof Bursley, Prof Wagner, Prof Lewis, Mr Smith and Mr Conger met at the home of Mr John C. Coryell at 1336 Geddes Ave for the first unofficial meeting of the Ann Arbor Stamp Club. After viewing several exhibit by Mr Coryell a short business meeting was held. It was decided to hold meetings on the 2nd and 4th saturdays of every month beginning in January. Temporarily. If the members then wished, the meetings could be changed. Prof Bursley offered Room 408 in the Romance Language Building as a meeting place. Mr Coryell was elected temporary president and general chairman. He appointed Mr Conger publicity manager. |
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January 20 1978  First Day of Issue commemorating the centenary of the Scientific Research Commission. Depicts a meteorite. |
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January 23 1976  Arrival in Minneapolis was stamped on the reverse twice-- once at "Specials" and once at "REG. DIV." I haven't noticed that on other mail. Is it unusual? Maybe "Special" is a stop in customs? Or is it just a "chain of custody" documentation for registered mail?  The letter was sent is during the Ethiopian Revolution. A Communist government was established in 1978, ending the Haile Selassie regime, The Empire of the Lion of Judah, whose lineage is said to go back to Solomon and Sheba. The letter is from an Ethiopian father to his daughter while she was attending University of Minnesota, School of Pharmacy. Edited for clarity |
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Two cancellation errors January 24 1923. Year is upside-down in CDS (Plus an unfortunate encounter with a rubber band.)  January 24 1898. California abbreviation is misspelled.  |
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Jan. 26th Sorry to be a day late on this, but I collect and am always on the lookout for covers from and to this area of the State of Washington and thought this one is interesting. This is a cover from the Postal Inspector, Paul Bently, Yakima, Wa. to CL White, Claremont, Ca. It is franked with C10 & C11. Postmarked at Yakima on Jan 26. The reverse is backstamped Los Angeles, Calif, Jan 30, 1929, Air Mail. The Official Business notice is X'd out so Mr Bently must have had an personal reason to write CL White, hence the stamps.  |
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Kehess: Quote:
California abbreviation is misspelled. The second cover in your last post showing the abbreviation Cala. for California is NOT misspelled. Many early California postmarks used that abbreviation. Here are a couple of a examples taken from internet auction sites:   (Much the same as in early days "Massachusetts" was abbreviated "Ms." when today the abbreviation "MS" refers to "Mississippi".) |
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wt1, thanks for letting me know about the CALA. abbreviation for California. It's interesting. I'll have to look through my other covers and see if I have any more of these that I didn't notice. |
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The CALA abbreviation was only known from Barry machines from 1897-1900 and only from machines 1 & 2. The first cancel with the diagonal line killer was from a model H2 and the second with the wavy line killer was from a model K5. They were also produced from models K2 (machine 1) and H2 and H9 from machine 2. |
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