Word: sealed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seal by Pyle...
This year's is the 25th annual seal in the U. S. In 1904 a Danish postal clerk named Einar Holboell suggested selling seals to finance a children's hospital in Copenhagen. The late Danish immigrant Jacob Riis suggested U. S. adoption of the idea. At Wilmington, Del., Emily Perkins Bissell, Red Cross and social worker, wanted $300 for a tuberculosis shack on the Brandywine. She persuaded the Philadelphia North American to publicize a small seal sale. She realized $3,000. That was in 1907. The National Red Cross snapped up the idea. Until 1919 the Christmas Seals...
...seal-green, red & black-this year has an unusual connotation of personality...
...design represents an old English coach & four. For seal-sale publicity, rich, sporting William Kissam Vanderbilt did a thing he thoroughly enjoys. He dressed as a conventional coachman, mounted his coach Venture and tooled a spanking four-in-hand before newsreel cameras...
Emily Perkins Bissell, the lady who first used the seal idea in the U. S., remains active at her social work, begun in 1889. She is now a pleasant, motherly sort of woman in her early sixties, stout, grey-haired. She has a summer home at Paris, Maine, which she calls "Right-of-way" and where she pleases herself by writing semi-religious poetry. Two years ago she published Happiness & Other Verses, giving the royalties to Christmas Seal campaigns. Although her seal work has had national effect, her personal activity has remained localized in & about Wilmington. Her sole decoration...