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Ashburton Guardian

Location

Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand

Date

Aug 17, 1900

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Stamp redemption card from Bulawayo raises value

In wartime isolation of Bulawayo stamps found new use as currency. A card printed with an offer to pay the stamp’s face value if presented by 1 October 1900 was attached to stamps. Three such cards arrived in Hobart, sent to a local resident, expected to grow valuable for collectors.

Victoria Street Petone Plantekoa Remedies Wellington Hospital Lecter Stewart Dunpas Gordon South Africa Bulawayo Africa Bullawayo H. Marshall Hole Hobart

Roosters and a Greeley Prank at the Tribune Press

A former Tribune journalist recalls a prank where two roosters ruined Horace Greeley’s proof sheets. Larkway, the only reader of the editor’s scrawls, misread the inked footed pages as a brilliant gag. Greeley’s editor choked on the accidental political error, declaring the joke unconstitutional.

New York “ Tribune Horace Greeley Larkway Greeley Larchway Greeles Congress Theald Foreman Jehoshaphat Madinburgh

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