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TIME, Dec. 30, p. 41, col. 1, at end, tells of the trials of Postmaster Shamus O'Brien, of Florence, Kan., and of his rescue by Ben Minturn of Chicago, who sent a check for $1,000 worth of stamps. TIME concludes: "Shrewd Friend Minturn could, of course, exchange his stamps for cash at the nearest post office...
Perhaps Shrewd Friend Minturn was not so shrewd-nor TIME either. Section 163 of the Postal Laws and Regulations of 1924 reads: "Postage stamps, or special delivery stamps, whether affixed to envelopes or not, shall not be redeemed for the public nor exchanged for other postage stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, or postal cards. . . ." And Postmaster Shamus O'Brien might well keep in mind the provisions of the Act of March 4, 1909 (now in title 18, section 331 of the United States Code) prescribing quite a penalty for postmasters who induce purchases for the purpose of increasing their...
...Florence, Kan., Shamus O'Brien, postmaster, was officially told that he must sell $800 worth of stamps by Jan. 1 or have his salary cut and have his office degraded to third-class. Citizens despaired; a third-class post office means no city mail delivery. In Chicago Ben Minturn, onetime Florentine schoolmate of O'Brien, read of his friend's predicament, wrote a letter, enclosed a check for $1,000, ordered $900 in 2 cent stamps, $100 in 5 cent stamps, saved the day. Shrewd Friend Minturn could, of course, exchange his stamps for cash...
Engaged. Frances Minturn Hall. Manhattan scioness & sculptress, great-granddaughter of Author Julia Ward Howe ("Battle Hymn of the Republic"), kinswoman of Publisher & Mrs. Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, Editor & Mrs. Edward W. Bok, the late Novelist F. Marion Crawford, the late Socialite Ward McAllister; to Thomas Clark Howard, son of Henry Howard, Newport chemical engineer & yachtsman...
...story and a poem respectively, redeem the sheets from the come-on-fellows-and-lets-get-together standard of prep school journalism. Certainly only the most desperate editorial crisis could induce the Vindex or Horae Scholasticae to print Mr. V. A. Brown's maudlin sentimentality or Mr. R. S. Minturn's epic of life-force agonies under any other head than that of humor. If your notions of story writing include the theme of the college bounder whose incredible extravagance leads him to the purchase of rosewood mounted radios and such bibelots with which to satisfy his sybaritic lusts...