Presidential Series stamps mark new year for Uncle Sam
The Western Newspaper Union reports a new Presidential series of steel engraved portraits of all U S presidents from Washington to Coolidge to be issued by the Post Office. The set includes revised placements of Washington Franklin Adams Jefferson and others with a 40 cent White House stamp. commemoratives for 1938 and plans for 1939 announce more issues.
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William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
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John Quincy Adams
Martin van Buren
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
James K. Polk
Millard Filmore
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Andrew Johnson
Chester Alan Arthur
Calvin Coolidge
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
Andrew Jackson
Zachary Taylor
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
James A. Garfield
Grover Cleveland
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Alexander Hamilton
Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
William H. Seward
John Marshal
Robert Livingston
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Widows of Presidents and their Franking Privileges
The article traces a century of presidential widows who held lifetime franked mail privileges. It covers Martha Washington to Frances Cleveland Preston, noting durations of use, special cases like Edith Roosevelt, Mary Harrison, and Mrs. Wilson who used facsimiles, and how signatures and names affected such mail.
Four Women On U S Postage Stamps Across History
The piece notes Martha Washington as the first First Lady honored on a stamp and the only portrait still in use on the one and a half cent stamp. It lists Isabella of Spain, Pocahontas, and Molly Pitcher as other women featured in early stamp series. It also mentions six presidential widows who can mail letters free of postage, including Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston and Edith Roosevelt, among others.
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New Year Health Resolve Promotes Better Family Nutrition
The article urges homemakers to view New Year as a time to assess and improve daily meals for buoyant health. It stresses including protein fats carbohydrates minerals vitamins and fiber, using milk eggs fruits and vegetables, and adopting a 1939 diet focused on protective foods while embracing new nutritional science.
Diet Planning Note Encourages Vitamin Rich Meals
A health advisory urges including at least two rich sources of each vitamin in daily menus and to include raw foods such as salad. It recommends liberal use of fruits and providing milk: a pint per adult and a quart per child, as beverage or in cooked dishes. D-WNU-C Houston Goudisa-19-e.
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Make a Double Bedspread From 10 Yards of Taffeta
Instructions for cutting a 39 to 40 inch bedspread from 10 yards of 3 1/2 inch taffeta to minimize waste. Cut the center panel first, then split the remaining fabric for two ruffles, joining the ruffle pieces into one long strip. Include generous seams and a narrow machine stitched hem.
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Around the House Food Color and Kitchen Tips
Curated home hints cover color in foods with grated carrots or peppers, cleaning burnt pans with salt, sifting sugar for fine texture, storing steel to prevent rust, inspecting baby toys for hazards, fire safety basics for basements, and buying spices in small fresh packs to preserve essential oils and flavor.
Evolution of American Social Dances 1776 to 1938
Collier's notes a shift from six traditional dances polka reel square dance minuet waltz and two step before 1911 to a flood of more than 25 new dances between 1911 and 1938. Among these are turkey trot grizzly bear Texas tummy bunny hug hesitation tango masie one step Castle walk fox trot Charleston black bottom Lindy hop rumba and the big apple.
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