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Your note in TIME, Feb. 23, on the 3? stamp commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Mississippi Territory mentioned that Mississippi was misspelled on the territory's original seal...
...Post Office announced that on April 7 it will issue a new 3? stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Mississippi Territory. Part of the design will be the territory's original seal, in which Mississippi is misspelled "Missisippi...
Baltimoreans, observing their city's 150th anniversary, nominated their greatest citizen. The late Financier-Philanthropist Johns Hopkins won first place, the late Cardinal Gibbons second, Edgar Allan Poe, third. Way down the list, but on it with 21 votes: the Duchess of Windsor...
...frigate Constellation, the U.S. Navy's oldest ship, celebrated its 150th birthday. Tied up at a Boston Navy Yard dock next to the U.S.S. Constitution (which was saved from destruction in 1830 by Oliver Wendell Holmes's impassioned "Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!"), the Constellation was mastless, and badly in need of a "complete rebuilding." The Navy hoped that "patriotic societies" would come to her rescue...
...Last week, however, President John W. Taylor announced a new calculation: the university, he declared, was actually founded 39 years earlier, in 1798, when Jefferson Seminary, its "parent institution," was chartered. Accordingly, he ordered a new round of festivities for next year, to celebrate Louisville U's 150th...