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Show ;j , Starts a A.w Yoar WiUi Ttt 1 rrntr N'is diSinctLnUr07ten haVS had the trait appear their por- stamns Sin. ,n 0llr Pstase the Land it lrst Lady of should & thl ffStfiUing that she t's honored Wman ,0 be i-hivinilislcal order. in aa, i u-n to thc :d f0,.me rreiUtfiila thus honored (there Is another, of course llot bei t lUHiver-tuit lie 1 inet!gl,e for a phn-e In tl. slump gallery so long as ho is liv.n,.) two other not". eminent In n, r ' civi1 gov- tory n2' t l e o?HnhWest Ter U its "flrst i'n"nCe f 1787- She also has the distinction o f being the only j woman whose Portrait con- tmues to appear on our postage it is on the one and one-half dents, axe retained re-tained In the new series. They are Hen-jamm Hen-jamm Franklin, father of the American postal post-al systn, aiul f..tl,.. v... in thiee. pf"t Iowa Ter-ri.'oHnl Ter-ri.'oHnl Conten-nml Conten-nml stamp the establishment estab-lishment of the territory 0f Iowa in 1833. It VVM lrst placed LS '" ",IK .rtrsits tiop ..Jont of : nf chi klVe never ii!fH Send in "'tx'nntort qnipnirnt . Manafai Salt Li A J h:oh your OODS ;.e!l t.u-k up ILETIC ,:S..JPS) acbib. i .,f country at . the N S l;-if. For it's ; true Abdomlt' ill lH 1 (or sa'.e at . .j:e set of ERS "beautiful -i en $ ra v e J writer ' p.U,.s " : to te found rwood. ( series" : servh Is which the Salt Li " intton. the fust woman whose portrait nppeared on one of our stamps. In fact, the new series begins with these two. Franklin gust 24. 01 Mines on Au- nnnounrcedt2rCecdePartmenthas ,uto lour commemorative 1 who has nlwnys appeared on the J one-cent stamp 1 is now on the one-half cent Is- I sue instead of I Nathan Hale J and Martha Washington re- L' I'K-i'i: "amps as a Part of the 1939 stamp program. AU are of three-cent three-cent denomination. denomina-tion. The first to be issued will be in honor of the cent stamp in the new series. The other three women who share the honor with Mr-tha Washington are: Isabella, queen of Spain, patron of Columbus. In the first commemorative com-memorative stamp series ever issued is-sued by the Post Office departmentthe depart-mentthe Columbian Exposition set of 1893-one of the stamps reproduced re-produced the familiar picture of Isabella pledging her jewels to aid the Italian navigator. I-ocahontas, the Indian "princess" "prin-cess" who saved the life of Capt. John Smith and later married John Rolfe, a Virginia planter. Her portrait appeared on a stamp in the Jamestown commemorative commemora-tive series of 1907. Molly Pitcher, the heroine of the Battle of Monmouth in the Revolution. A picture showing her serving a cannon, after her artilleryman ar-tilleryman husband had been disabled, dis-abled, appeared on a stamp in 1928 commemorating the sesqui-centennial sesqui-centennial of the Battle of Monmouth. Mon-mouth. Incidentally, there are six women wom-en in the United States who can send personal letters through the mails without paying postage on- them something which not even the President of the United Unit-ed States nor members of his household can do. They are the widows of six of our Presidents Mrs. Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston, Mrs. Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, Mrs. Edith Kermit Carew Roosevelt, Mrs. Helen Herron Taft, Mrs. Edith piaces warren G. Harding on the one and one-half one-half cent stamp. There is also a 4-.--cent stamp which shows the White House, the home of our , . . uuiuen uaie in ternational exposition in San Francisco and will be released there February 18. Two StamDS are sohaAutnA i residents. Arranging the Presidents chronologically has resulted in 1 some noticeable j shifts. Washington's Washing-ton's likeness has been on r in t --V-. - i April 30, one -commemorat- f ing the 150th an- niversary o f George Washington's Wash-ington's taking ' the oath of office of-fice as first President at Federal Hall in I V SM Free -OMPAJ s cd : for Bam both the two- " " ' i n ' V i cent and the three-cent stamps in past years. He will now appear only on the one-cent, replacing Benjamin Franklin, and yielding New York city, April 30, 1789, and the other will be for the New York World's Fair 1939. The Washington inaugural his place on the L red two-center i to John Adams and on the purple pur-ple three-center to Thomas Jefferson. Jef-ferson. Since Americans ; spend more than $500,000,- f c , - ! i V.. stamp will be placed on first-day first-day sale in New York but the point of release of the World's Fair stamp has not been determined. de-termined. The fourth ' '"J" :;f.t Theodore OMP l Vn,t William placed on f-IY ; ia the post of- 1 let in the na- .FT a ill capital RVICE ; ia masth and witl' ; ir the first of J " , it jear all of :refu"ll, 1x1 749 j r:es will 'h i ivailable in PR' : i-vj post 0f- ice throughout Paper - a . to t-'f-atsome . Wrii - ' tevt "never cuj r-i-ced in this 000 for postage every year and nearly half of this sum goes for two-cent and three-cent stamps, it's likely that they are going to stamp will commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of the Panama canal. It will be issued August 15 at a ft y , ' ' be more famil- r-iar r-iar with the i looks of their ; second and third Presidents, j John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, than they have ever hppn hpfnrp. I - ". '"Tl"", ' 1 I . ... . i first-day sale point to be announced. an-nounced. The year 1937 was also rich in special stamp issues." Outstanding Out-standing among them were the "Army -Navy fTV V - of yi. T il i i ' C- ; j in j It is to be hoped that Millard Fillmore was not a superstitious man, else it might have given him some uncomfortable mo- . i series" of one, two, three, four and five-cent stamps. These stamps were oblong in shape and, in addition to the portraits of m.piaiii. r- ivrv'd l -. . .." ;. ; ments u ne could have foreseen fore-seen that his portrait would appear on the 13-cent stamp! It will be noticed no-ticed that there is no 23-cent stamp. That's rr f x, v. ! LIU,,." 3 military and naval heroes shown in ovals at the right and left, they contained con-tained in a middle mid-dle panel a view of some patriotic patri-otic shrine or some historic irtm T;:s- Adams, j Martin Van -7 Harrison, ; ;es K. Polk. iager 1 Millard Fiil- i o:e, Franklin 111 psrce, James j Buchanan, An-y- , a;ew Johnson, of Chester Alan .ibet A.-thur and Cal-!S Cal-!S j i fin Coolidge. k j Alloftheoth- 7 e:s George q '-anas Jefferson, :ars Ji James Monroe, the j Zachary Taylor' iine;;:'-n. Ulysses s' ars - not because of any superstition in regard to that number or any desire to avoid perpetuation of tKa "O'JcViHrlr.r,!" tradition. GrOV- American scene. The one-cent army stamp bore a view of Mount Vernon, home of Washington, in the center, flanked inita rvf ,.v.v.-,vwwia Boiling Gait Wilson, and Mrs. Grace Goodhue Coolidge all of whom enjoy a special franking privilege. In the first year of the 19th century, cen-tury, congress granted such privilege privi-lege to Martha Washington, then a widow. This frank was to last until her death, and. Mrs. Washington Wash-ington used it for but one month over two years, when she died. Letters with her signature on the outside, instead of the usual postage, post-age, are rare, despite the fact that Mrs. Washington had a wide acquaintance. The "charming Dolly Madison" was the second widow of a President Presi-dent to receive this special frank. She wrote the word "free," and most of the later privileges followed fol-lowed her example. 1 Anna Harrison, wife of the short-lived President William Henry Harrison, used her frank for 23 years; Louisa Catherine Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams, Ad-ams, four years. Sarah Polk used her frank the longest of any President's Presi-dent's widow, 41 years and seven months. Mary Lincoln used her frank for 16 years and five months, but because of the demand for Lincolnian specimens are very difficult to procure. Lucretia Randolph Garfield en-ioyed en-ioyed her frank the second longest long-est 26 years and two months. Julia Dent Grant used her privilege privi-lege for 16 years and 10 months. Frances F. Cleveland Preston received her frank in 1909 and ... ..einff it. When she married er Cleveland, who appears on the 22-c e n t stamp, serves two terms in the White House but they were not consecutive He was defeated defeat-ed bv Beniam- Dy puiuait-3 - Washington and Gen. Nathanael Greene of Revolutionary Revo-lutionary war fame. The one-centnavystamp one-centnavystamp showed portraits por-traits of John tre ' the sts pe I ' ! I D ( ie a I om i in Harrison who served one, tnen "staged a come-back" and was elected for another four-year term So it seemed the logical Paul Jones, commander of the "Bon Homme Richard," and John Barry, commander com-mander of the "Lexington," our wanding sea captains dur- i thing to place his portrait with the dates of his two terms on t h e 22-c e n t stamp and place Harrison on the 24-cent issue. In addition to being the year LWU vy"-- ing the Revolution. Revolu-tion. Between them was a picture pic-ture of typical warships of that period. The two-cent army stamp displayed portrait"? por-trait"? of Gen. , i: tadaPPeared on s. a ..at "ie time or an-r an-r true of such jv 1 s'f esmen a s 2'exander ion : HamUton, Hen-atii Hen-atii ! 2 Clav. Daniel I poster, Wil--"T ' H.Seward, ith JDn Marshal, A bert Living-Ev; Living-Ev; -4 st0I. and Ed-infj111 Ed-infj111 M.Stanton; st5co nr3Val heroes JK J ver Hazard , ' iecumseh Sher-... Sher-... fan-aunt j Andrew Jackson WinfieId. Se t Hermitage, Jack"llvinT Tenn., in the cen- of the new "Presidential Series of stamps, 1938 has been a notable nota-ble one for the number of com-mpmnratives" com-mpmnratives" that have been is- near - ter. The two-centnavystamp two-centnavystamp pictured Commodore Com-modore Stephen Decatur, hero of the War with the Barbary Pirates, Pi-rates, and Commodore Com-modore Thomas -nnnnil2lli iHlT0StATESP0STM sued. Whether 1939 will be equally rich in -these remind ers of our past remains to be seen. Outstand ing among the 1938 "commem- t; I ?ei -es t:'ie, do3ai. j i h f rei kt. I jyiac""--" Rattle OI u- her0 thThe three-cent army Champlain Then Un stampS, German, Grant and generals, Sherm ;dan a n d Thethree-cent Constitution sUM issued in connection with the iSOth anniversary of the raUM tion of the United States ConsWU tion by 1 " c Mr Preston in 1914, the postmaster postmas-ter general informed her that as the frank was for lifetime use, she could continue the privilege, merely adding Preston to the name. . ., , Mary Lord Harrison, wife of Benjamin Harrison, received her frank the same day as Mrs Cleveland. Mrs. Harrison was not actually a "First Lady of tne Land"- she married President Harrison four years after he had left the White House. She is still living and using her frank. One of the most common specimens speci-mens to be found in the mail is that of Edith Carew Roosevelt, who has made much use of her PrMrseSHarding had the shortest use of'her frank, 10 months, lacking lack-ing three days. Mrs Wilson received the franking frank-ing privilege several weeks after Mrs Harding received hers, although al-though she had preceeded the later lat-er in occupying the Executive Mansion. Mrs. Wilson is the on y one of the Presidents' widows to se a facsimile, which she does to the disappointment of the collectors. 8 - the navy stamp Admirals David q Farragut and David Porter. Por-ter. . The four-cent army stamp honored Gen. , t v. Lee states. K was first Place.n sale at the Philadelphia Phil-adelphia Pt office on June 21. The three-cent three-cent Delaware stamp com-memoratingthe w af their Pr-! Pr-! em,, 'deemed. vft.ndlng Postal , i broUght promi- , ; Americans i, 4 to our stamp vi 4 al!"y in past n- I ?ears made it lt J pessary t o , I "nl some more 4 nr- So early ralpar, year Pst-j Pst-j a3 to y enounced 'u staJ?e a general C y ,s3ues, ar-esi(ients ar-esi(ients in their ' c7 .wVir Jackson of the Confederate Admirals navy stamp c.ep.cteadnd Urspamsh-American war. " , of ae landing 300th anniversa o 1 Finnish of the first Swedish ana colonists in this ""filming-first ""filming-first Placed on sale at w ton, Del., on June U. j. The three-cent Northwest Terr |