ALBANY, N.Y. – Documents penned during the Civil War and others to and from Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt are among hundreds of stolen documents sold online that eBay is agreeing to buy back and return to New York’s archives, a state official said Saturday. More: continued here
Read More »eBay to buy back stolen historical items (The Charlotte Observer)
Documents dating from the Civil War and others to and from Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt are among hundreds of stolen documents sold online that eBay is agreeing to buy back and return to New York’s archives, a state official said Saturday. The online auction giant has no liability in the …
Read More »45,000 back Mail on Sunday’s Save Britannia on our coins bid (Evening Standard)
Support was soaring last night for a Mail on Sunday campaign to stop Britannia’s removal from British coins after 336 years. More: continued here
Read More »Poland buys rare WWII uprising postcards (AP via Yahoo! News)
A museum has acquired a collection of rare World War II-era postcards, stamps and letters from Polish insurgents who fought their Nazi occupiers during the Warsaw Uprising. More: continued here
Read More »Stolen Historic Documents to Be Returned, Paid for by Ebay (WRGB Albany)
A state official says documents penned during the Civil War and others to and from Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt are among hundreds of stolen items sold online that eBay is agreeing to buy back and return to New York’s archives. More: continued here
Read More »New post office planned for city by the year 2010 02/10/08 (The News-Herald)
FLAT ROCK — Two words come to some to describe the city’s post office: “dumpy” and “small.” For years, officials have been asking for a new facility to replace one many say is too small for the growing city’s needs. More: continued here
Read More »How Malcolm the tough-guy Marine turned into Bulgarian Miss Margaret (Daily Mail)
When retired commando Malcolm McPherson started house-hunting in the Bulgarian village of Jyulnitza after a distinguished career in the Royal Marines, locals thought they were welcoming a tough military man. So when a genteel woman called Margaret McPherson, who looked uncannily like the ex-marine, moved into his house several months …
Read More »Not stamped out (The Record Searchlight)
NEW YORK — Marty Sellers used to need about a hundred postage stamps every three months. These days, he can stretch that supply to last a year. More: continued here
Read More »Post office at Rite Aid will remain open (Ashland Daily Tidings)
Rite Aid will keep its Contract Postal Unit open, said Tim Ross, officer-in-charge of Ashland’s Post Office. More: continued here
Read More »Now, Feed the Data to the Subprimeoscope (New York Times)
Economic forecasting is like reading tea leaves extremely difficult, unless you arrange the leaves into letters and numbers, which is no picnic, either. More: continued here
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