Retirement trailer parks gain traction along southern U S
THOMAS COLLINS reports on a revival of life after work via retirement trailer parks. The piece describes park layouts, trailer styles, plot rents, utilities, and social hubs like shuffleboard. Residents range from Michigan auto workers to New Jersey professionals, with about 90 trailers per park and values around 7,000 dollars per trailer.
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Thomas Collins
United States
Ane
Michigan
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Mona Lisa Explained by First Graders in Riverside
In Riverside California UPI a group of Adams School first graders offered humorous reasons for the Mona Lisa smile. They included ideas that she is about to be married she is happy outside or about something she ate and that the photographer told her to smile.
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PTA
Adams
Liberty Walking Half Dollar of 1916 Records Beauty and Rarity
The 1916 Liberty Walking Half Dollar by Adolph Weinman stunned collectors with a moving Liberty and a fresh eagle reverse. Production was limited across three mints, with about 75 million total and weakest years thereafter, leaving many coins poorly struck and rare today.
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Treasury Départment
United States
Adsoph A. Weinman
Aother
Hermon A. MacNeil
Adolph Weinman
Liberty
Christan Gobrecht
Augustus St. Gaudens
Weinman
Miss Liberty
U.S
Johnny Appleseed stamp memorial launches Sept. 24
The Johnny Appleseed commemorative postage stamp, first in the American Folklore Series, will be issued Sept. 24 in Leominster, Massachusetts, birthplace of John Chapman. The stamp features a red apple with Johnny Appleseed beside and holds details about Chapman’s eccentric frontier travels and plantings. First-day cancellations offered for collectors.
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Johnny Appleseed
Leominster
Mass
John Chapman
America
Johnny
Chapman
Renovated Haus zur roten Rose Aims Attracting Tourists
REGENSBURG Switzerland aims to draw visitors by revamping the 13th century walled town’s residential hotel Haus zur roten Rose with 20th century comforts. The site showcases antique furnishings, banquet halls, and a permanent exhibit of paintings by Lotte Guenthart. This item also notes a stamp-related mailing request and Viet Nam War era postage details.
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Regensberg
Switzerland
UPI
Zurich
Lotte Guenthart
Questions From Veterans About Railroad Retirement and Pension
A railroad employee aged 67 plans to retire in 1987 with railroad retirement of about $200 monthly for himself and $75 for his wife, totaling $275. The VA counts all yearly income for non service connected pensions, including wages, salaries, dividends, interest, profits, annuities, pensions, and Social Security payments.
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Ployee
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