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On February 1 the Smithsonian Institute will add another item to American history. Along with Revolutionary uniforms, Whitney’s cotton gin, and the “Spirit of St. Louis,” will go the penny postal.

Lots of other items have fallen to the change of .the times. A pen. ny now is something to add on to a regular price, rather than being a purchasing piece of money in it9 own right. Some of us, who can recall when a penny bought a pencil, a stick of candy, and many other useful items, have watched the copper become less and less in value. Now, even the penny postal is gone.

With February 1, 1952, you can no longer notify the fuel oil man nor the gas man by dropping the penny postal in the mail. Youngsters off at school 4*e going to be nurt by this death of the penny post card. It was just as convenient as a means of writing home for money as any other—and much cheaper. After February 1, it’ll take a three-cent letter to run all the little errands formerly done by the penny postal.

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There’s nothing like getting your ears pinned back good and proper. After stating in a very » superior manner that 1 didn’t like television, the information was •passed a^ong, quietly but firmly, that many a man—and woman-expressed the saiqe opinion regarding the horseless carriage. Hereafter, maybe I should keep my opinions to myself. But that would take se much pleasure out of

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