March 15, 1867: The East Tennessee Union Flag gave a meeting notice: “The Holston Presbytery will hold its next stated meeting in the Presbyterian Church in Greeneville, on Friday, the
Feb 01, 2021
Viewers of Super Bowl LV on February 7 in Tampa will notice many changes to this year’s event, in keeping with the “new normal” of pandemic life. Fans (including 7,500 vaccinated healthcare professionals) will fill only one-third of the seats at Tampa s Raymond James Stadium in compliance with social distancing restrictions. Amanda Gorman, the National Youth Poet Laureate who made international headlines during President Biden’s inauguration, will read her new poem celebrating frontline workers, making her likely the first poet in Super Bowl performance history. Finally, while several brands will be making their Big Game advertising debuts, many of the biggest names traditionally associated with Super Bowl commercials will sit out this year.
Did your mother ever give you the job of pasting trading stamps into books? Mine did. My childhood is full of rainy afternoons spent licking (or wetting with a sponge after I got smart) drawers full of S&H Green stamps. That entitled me to browse the S&H Idea Book to see what we could spend our stamps on. It was almost as cool as looking through the JCPenney Christmas Catalogue⦠almost. My recent discovery of trading stamps in the Sophienburg Collection prompted a little more in depth look at trading stamps in New Braunfels.Â
Before there were frequent flyer miles, hole punched discount cards or computerized loyalty discounts, there were trading stamps. Trading stamps were developed as a retail loyalty program. Merchants would purchase the stamps in varying point denominations and give them out based on the amount of the purchase. Stamps were then pasted into savings books and redeemed for other merchandise. Sperry & Hutchinson created S&H Green Stamps in 1896. They were one
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Joe Kirkish
So what did you do to celebrate the New Year? Did you ignore the medical experts, had a whopping good time without masks – and came to rue the day? Or did you make sensible promises for the immediate future, like:
– I won’t plan any long trips.
– I won’t visit high risk friends in their homes.
– I will automatically practice the 6′ distance with everyone.
– I won’t stop washing my hands frequently.
– I won’t throw a party or hit the bars.
– I won’t go to exercise in a gym without a plan.
– Mask and gloves will be my daily dress in all appropriate situations.