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Show j NEW ROOSEVELT STAMP j " ! Public interest is centered in no , small measure about the issue of the ! new postage stamp, of 5-cent denom-i denom-i ! illation, bearing the likeness of for-J j mer President Theodore Roosevelt. The first stamp was presented to Mrs Roosevelt on Friday. October 27. I when the issue was placed on sale Mat Oyster Bay. Xfw York, Roosevelt's late home, in New York, which was his birthplace, and at the official stamp agency in Washington. The j 'tamps will not be placed on sale elsewhere until the present supply is 'exhausted. It has not yet been stat-j :1 how many of the new stamps are I jm.w in circulation. Five stamps from! ; lie first sheet were presented to the J former president's daughter, Mrs. j i Alice Roosevelt Longwnrth ; and five-! five-! also to his son. Theodore Roosevelt j i. Jr. assistant secretary of the navy. |