The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-04
By ]. P. D.

During the past week some very interesting oddities and generally relevant items have come to our attention. Perhaps you know about them .. perhaps notl
 First double-lines were used in Akron, Ohio. Last city to use them was Steubenville, in the same state. Philadelphia and New York, in addition to some l20 towns anc cities used them. They began in 1929 and ended in 1882, Interesting things to collect.
 Some of the many magazines which you might not have known had regular stamp pages. .. The Lone Ranger magazine, Ace Com les magazine, Popular Mecharl- ics, Modern Mechanic and the Mickey Mouse magazine.
 Can you distinguish the type of ships you often see on new tor .old) stamps? The recent Finnish semi. .postals are good ones to start in on for . brief nautical study.
 The one and One- quarter m. shows . brig; the three and one- half m. shows 8 bark. The 1885 "too-late" Uruguay stamps have . picture of . galleon on them. (A three -decked ship).
 And there are many others which have illustrations of ships which are in that category we refer to now as ocean liners or battleships. But for the old three and four masters you have to be salty to get the right answers.
 Maybe you haven't heard of Mae West. If not this probably won't interest you. But most peo- pie have so we impart the follow ing bit of information.
 Mae West Is In receipt of an unique stamp collectors item, the gift of a Chicago movie fan and phiiatelist, on her birthday (no age given) on August IT.
 The cover sent to the movie star bears four poStmarks, collected by the fan over a period of two years, and commentaries national holi- days and two of the stars birth days.
 One corner of the envelope bear. the stamp of the postoftlce at Mae, Washington. (This is pretty intricate but don't give up). It was cancelled on July 4, 1886. On another corner is a coancellatiln from West, Iowa, obtained August IT, 1886. A third post mark is from Star, Mississippi, on June IA (flag day), 1895 and the final cancellation is from Los Angles, Calif., and Is dated August IT, 1885. Samuel Schlesinger of Chi- cago is the patient man who got all this material together to send to the screen star.
 Even if you have only a slight knowledge of American history you still ought to remember that Sir Walter Raliegh had quite g bit of difficulty in establishing a permanent colony on new world soil near the end of the 18th century. In primary history books you usually read that the first man and women starved or sOme- thing and were never heard of again and the whole thing was more or less conveniently dis- missed. Then perhaps, as you grew up and became more inter- ested in just what happend to these first settlers" you may have read that they couldn't live through the first winter and that when Sir Walter returned to the "new world'' they had all myster- i0usly disappeared.
 Last week, following Che issu- ance of the new Virginia Dare stamps, . gentleman by the name of Rice from each City. Ohio, took It upon himself to throw . little light on the subject.
 This man doesn't take much stock in the "mysterious" angle and has some sound information tO back up his stand.
 While Ewing In the vicinity of Wilmington. N. O., some years ago he took t upon himself te get some proof of the theory That these original coIonIsts were not Host" but that they, finding the strain Of existence too difficult with only . meagcr collection of supplies moved im with the Croa- fan rndfang fn tlne vicinity a,aR-