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Show SHE SELLS 10,000,000 STAMP? Mrs. Charles H. Parkhurst Disport-of Disport-of Collection of Thirty Years. New York. A collection of 10,00),. 000 canceled postage stamps, domes;ia and foreign, done up in 100,000 mkt packages, were on exhibition recenty at the office of a New York dealir. They were sold to him by Ms. Charles H. Parkhurst, wife of the pis-tor pis-tor of Madison Square Presbyteriin church. Mrs. Parkhurst had been r. tlently collecting them for 30 yeas, and sold them because the Parkhurt family moved to .1 smaller nous, where there was no room for tie stamps. Thirty years ago Mrs. Parkhurt read an advertisement which offertl free tuition for a Chinese, lad at tx American institution of learning in e;. change for 1,000,000 canceled stamp;. Mrs. Parkhurst began to collect then with great diligence, but when she hid a million she could find no pla'e where thoy might be exchanged f,r college days for a celestial, so she juit went on saving tln;m. |