Stories in Stamps by J S Klein
A Greer Discovery is announced. Columbus arrives in Barcelona after a seven month voyage and shows proofs of America to Ferdinand and Isabella. The 1893 Columbian stamp depicts this scene copied from Balaca. Also notes on English Christmas cards, robins and Father Christmas imagery, and the spread of the Christmas card tradition worldwide.
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Ferdinand
Isabella
Barcelona
Christopher Columbus
Paris
Atlantic
America
Columbus
Ricardo Balaca
Madrid
Little Red Riding Hood
Robin
Leader in social work and theater terms mixed puzzle
A clipped OCR style puzzle clue list mixing definitions for social work leader and theatre terms. It includes numerous numbered hints like 10 Amphitheatre 11 An age 12 Brought v- 13 Declaims 15 Paid publicit 16 Indian fans and more, with items such as 31 Ships' steck apparatuses and 25 Leases, forming a dense wordplay grid.
Origins of Christmas Cards Traced to 1846 England
Uncle Ray surveys the rise of Christmas cards as a global tradition. Sir Henry Cole and Joseph Cundall are credited with starting the practice in England, with the first card issued in 1846. The card, lithographed and hand colored, faced slow initial popularity, but the practice eventually spread worldwide with multilingual greetings and widespread card sending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Sir Henry Cole
Joseph Cundall
Sundall
London
J. ©. Horsley
Pet Peeves Prompted at Bank and Theatre Lines
A reader laments line cutters in banks and theatre ticket windows. The writer urges permissible roughness as a remedy and condemns others who crowd ahead to buy tickets cash checks or deposit funds. Letters to Editor Pet Peeves invite concise responses under 200 words.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pet Peeves
The
Enterprise
Forest Fires Cause Only 5570 Damages in November
Raleigh dispatch reports forest fires across 59 counties cooperating in suppression caused $5570 in damages during November. A total of 128 fires were recorded, with an average burned area of 21 acres per fire, lowest for the year. Campers and recreationists were blamed for 81 blazes, and only one fire was lightning caused.
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Raleigh
Department of Conservation
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Guzzle
Lulu Belle
Frank
Miz Wallis
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Dion
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United States National
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Uncle Ray’s
Father Christmas
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HT Prisley
United States
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