Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1914 — MAKES UNITED STATES MAP OF POSTAGE STAMPS [ARTICLE]

MAKES UNITED STATES MAP OF POSTAGE STAMPS

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Atchison, Kan.—John Fortune, a postman of this town, has just completed a map of the United States, made entirely of oaaoeiiad postage stamps. The stamps are pasted on a canvas, five by nine and each stamp has been trimmed to fit those adjacent to it.

Stamps of various colon are used to designate the original thirteen States and the Territories obtained by purchase and annexation. In the center of the map Is a likeness of the American eagle with wings spread and an olive branch and a bundle of arrows grasped in Its talons. In the center of the State of Virginia is a oopy of the Declaration of Independence, bordered with stamps. The entire creation is surrounded by pictures of the Presidents as printed stamps, and the Canadian border Is made of stamps from that country. Fortune declines to state the number of stamps used In the construction of the map, as he intends to (ease it as a basis for guessing eontests. i

Origin of the "Black nano." There was a historical foundation for the name “J>lack hand,” according to Everybody’s. Back in Inquisition days in Spain there was La Mano Nera, a secret society which fought the government and he the church. If-passed, and the secret societies of southern Italy were Its heirs. Twenty years or more ago a false report was raised In Spain that La Mano Nera had been revived. The story lingered In the brain of a Herald reporter, and one fine day he attempted to rejuvenate waning Interest In a puzzling Italian murder case by speculating as to the coming to life of the ‘ black hand” among Latin Immigrants In America. The other newspapers seized on the idea eagerly and ffept It going.