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Notes from the Editor: What’s New at The Mountain States Collector
As many of you may have noticed we have been evolving. Due to a stroke I had in late March of this year, I have been more and more dependent on my son Sam to deliver our monthly issue of The Mountain States Collector. I always hoped one of my children might want to continue producing our monthly newspaper. Sam […]
American History August Anniversaries
August 3 Washington Assumes Com-mand of the Continental Army (1775) August 5 Abraham Lincoln imposes the first federal income tax (1861) August 7 George Washington creates the Purple Heart (1782) August 10 75th Anniversary of the Department of War, renamed the Department of Defense (1949) August 14 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the U.S., signs […]
Patriotic Holidays – Made Wonderful Postcards
By Robert Reed Displays of patriotism abounded in the United States long before the most timely arrival of holiday postcards on the American scene early in the 20th century. Yet the robust stars and stripes and all those related images just never looked better than they did in print on illustrated postcards. Within ten years of the ‘new’ century citizens […]
Paper Shortage!
By Carol Mobley Acts of war present many hardships for the citizens living through it. While there are not many examples of such in American history, there are some and one of them is the Civil War. In 1861, President Lincoln enacted a blockade to prevent supplies going into the Confederacy. While this blockade was aimed at the export […]
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