Taft Stamp

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Taft Stamp

Death alone can put a President on a postage stamp. Last week the Post Office Department announced that a portrait of William Howard Taft would appear early this month on all 4-c- stamps, replacing Martha Washington. The first First Lady will not be completely ousted from the mails because her likeness will continue to appear on the reply half of the 2-c- business postal card. (George Washington is on the address half.) The new Taft portrait will be that of the corpulent twenty-seventh President of the U. S., not of the leaner tenth Chief Justice of the U. S.*

* Harding appears on the 1 1/2c stamp, Washington on the 2c, Lincoln on the 3c, Roosevelt on the 5c, Garfield on the 6c, McKinley on the 7c. Grant on the 8c, Jefferson on the 9c, Monroe on the 10c, Hayes on the 11c, Cleveland on the 12c, Harrison on the 13c, Wilson on the 17c.

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