Stamp values soar as investors flood philately market
Sylvia Porter notes stamps outperform stocks amid inflation fears as airmail inverted 24 cent stamps fetch 72500 dollars at auction and Mauritius 1847 stamps command high sums. Advice urges new collectors to start small, join clubs, work with reputable dealers, and beware counterfeits while outlining theft near Upper Darby where burglars took over 2000 dollars in goods from a Cedar Lane home.
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U.S
New Orleans
Indian Ocean
Mauritius
Dennis McCarthy
The
American Stamp Assn
Philatelic
American Philatelic Society
State College
Philatelic Foundation
New York
Mercy Hospital Receives NIH Grant for Lung Protein Clearance
The National Institute of Health grants Mercy Catholic Medical Center $225,683 for a three year study on clearing proteins from the lungs. This award extends two prior NIH grants for a project now in its seventh year. Also, Roberta A. Jacyshyn of Crum Lynne earns Dean's List at Berklee College of Music in Boston for music education studies.
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Darby
National Institute of Health
Mercy Catholic Medical Center
NIH
Roberta A. Jacyshyn
Crum Lynne
Berklee College of Music
Boston
Mass
Jacyshyn
Today in History and Local Recycling Drive
Today in history notes global milestones from 1963 test ban treaty to 1858 cable completion and 1884 Statue of Liberty cornerstone, with birthdays including Neil Armstrong. In Springfield, Reynolds Aluminum Recycling’s unit will visit the Springfield Mall Aug 12 and 26 from 9:30 to 11 a.m. offering 17 cents per pound for clean aluminum cans.
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Associated Press
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
U.S
New York Harbor
Ecuador
Marilyn Monroe
Los Angeles
George McGovern
Peace Corps
Sargeant Shriver
Thomas Eagleton
Missouri
Seaboard Coast Line
Florida
U.S. General Accounting Office
Pentagon
Vatican
Neil Armstrong
John Huston
Dave Rozema
Detroit Tigers
Kin Hubbard
Springfield
Reynolds Aluminum Recycling Company
Springfield Mall
U. S. to accept Delaware inmates
The federal government will take up to 50 Delaware inmates to ease Delaware Correctional Center overcrowding. Biden announced that two Pennsylvania facilities will house them at $21 per day per inmate, with transfer beginning Friday and about 40 inmates moved. Six inmates already held federally. The move may suspend hearings on a contempt motion against Vaughn and Redman as the DCC population nears 650.
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Wilmington, del
Delaware
Delaware Correctional Center
Smyrna
James T. Vaughn
State Department of Correction
Walter W. Redman
DCC
Joseph R. Biden Jr
D-Del
Norman A
Biden
Washington
Vaughn and
Redman
U.S
Murray M. Schwartz
Schwartz
Vaughn
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Sylvia Porter
Upper Darby
Walter Bertsler
S. Cedar Lane
Mercy Hospital
D Paper
Calootee SP
Daily Times
Stroud, & Co
Providence Road
Media
Ehneeverenes
Bethlehem Steel Eeedeteseensens
Fedders A.C
General Electric
General Motors
U. S
Gerald Hospader
Firestone Tire Co
Fernwood
Herbert Lee
Consolidated Trucking Co
Philadelphia
Lee
Hospador
Delaware County
Rita Prescott
Annette Walker
Gloria Walker
Scheola Webb
Thornbury
Prescott
Jeffrey A. Zimmer
Swarthmore
Hertz
Zimmer
Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy
Cambridge
Granite RunMan
Penn State
Now
John Haggard
Wv Pv
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