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Even though Insurance covers abound and make up some of the earliest issues, not many collectors
collect Insurance as a category. Go figure! Plus, Insurance in America has a l-o-o-o-n-g history, going all
the way back to colonial times.
The first insurance company in America underwrote fire insurance and was formed in Charleston, South
by
Mike Prero
BULLETIN
PRESIDENT TREASURER EDITOR
John Bachochin Loren Moore Mike Prero
15731 S. 4210 Rd., POB 1181 12659 Eckard Way
Claremore, OK 74017 Roseville, CA 95678 Auburn,CA 95603
918-342-0710 916-783-6822 530-906-4705
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Carolina in 1735. In 1752, Benjamin Franklin helped form a mutual insurance
company called the Philadelphia Contributionship, which is the nation’s oldest
insurance carrier still in operation. [Doesn’t it seem that Ben Franklin had his
thumb in just about everything back then?!] Franklin’s company was the first to
make contributions toward fore prevention. Not only did his company warn
against certain fire hazards, it refused to insure certain buildings where the risk of
fire was too great, such as all wooden houses.
The first stock insurance company formed in the U.S. was the Insurance
Company of North America in 1792. Massachusetts enacted the first state law
requiring insurance companies to maintain adequate reserves in 1837. Formal
regulation of the insurance industry began in earnest when the first state
commissioner of insurance was appointed in New Hampshire in 1851. In 1859,
New York appointed its own commissioner and created a state insurance
department to move towards more comprehensive regulation of insurance at the
state level.
The United States is the world’s largest insurance market by premium volume.
In 2013, 27% of all insurance premiums written worldwide were in the U.S. In
2015, there were 814 Life Insurance companies alone.
Yeah! Yeah Yeah!...But what about the covers! Well, to begin with, there are a
lot of them! Bill Hayes, FL, had 14,368 in his collection as of March 2016. Plus,
within the category, there’s lots of variety—Oldies, Features, Dated, Cameos,
Metallics, and many more...including one of my favorites, Sets & Series. And, of
course, you’ll see plenty of different manumarks.
They come in all the traditional cover and box sizes—10s, 20s, 30s, 40s,
Ace, etc. [I actually don’t see any 10s on hand at the moment, but I’m sure
there must be some] 20-strikes, of course, are the most numerous.
In any event, Insurance is a category that’s worth considering. And,
since few collect in that area, you should be able to get them cheap, if not
free! You have a way to go, though, before you catch up to Bill Hayes!
Good luck!
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Dakota Cigarette Box Set
This set consists of 5 dark blue American Ace tobacco boxes. Top panel shows Dakota logo; each
bottom panel shows a dif color photo (one shows a bigger Dakota logo): people at campfire; people in
jeep; people dancing; people on motorcycles; large Dakota logo. [c. 1990]
This set is actually more
collectible than you may be aware
of.
Dakota was a brand of cigarettes
introduced by R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco (RJR) in 1990. Their
marketing was targeted towards
young blue-collar ‘virile females’ in
an attempt to displace the Marlboro
brand without diluting the dominant
Camel brand’s appeal to males.
After test-marketing in Huston,
Tucson, Phoenix and Nashville
didn’t yield the desired result, the
brand was withdrawn.
[I guess I have to go to Houston,
Tucson, Phoenix, or Nashville to
find virile females!] [I hate flying!]
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The Devil In American Culture
The Devil appears frequently as a character in works of literature and popular culture. The musical
interval of an augmented fourth was called the Devil's Chord and was banned by the Roman Catholic
Church in the Middle Ages. The Devil is featured as a character in many musical representations from the
Middle Ages to modern times. Hildegard of Bingen's 11th-century Ordo Virtutum features him, as do
several baroque oratorios by composers such as Carissimi and Alessandro Scarlatti. During the 19th
century, Gounod's Faust, in which the Devil goes by the name Mephistopheles, was a staple of opera
houses around the world.
Highly virtuosic violin music was sometimes associated with the Devil. Tartini's Devil's Trill sonata and
Paganini's Devil's Laughter caprice are examples. The theme is taken up by Stravinsky in the "Devil's
Dance" from The Soldier's Tale. Other pieces that refer to the Devil are Franz Liszt's "Mephisto Walzer"
and Joseph Hellmsberger II's "Teufelstanz", as well as Haydn's lost opera "Der krumme Teufel".
How about popular music? Jazz was often called the Devil's music by its critics in the 1920s. The Rolling
Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" (1968) features Mick Jagger speaking as the Devil. "The Devil Went
Down to Georgia" (1979) by the Charlie Daniels Band was the first modern popular song to feature a battle
between the Devil and a musician. The theme of battling the Devil has been revisited several times in other
songs. “N.I.B." by Black Sabbath is a song about "the devil falling in love and totally changing becoming a
good person." (Geezer Butler, 1992 documentary The Black Sabbath Story: Volume One) The song's
chorus references Lucifer specifically: "..Look into my eyes, you will see who I am; My name is Lucifer,
please take my hand." "Lucifer" is the name of a song by U.S. rapper Jay-Z from his 2003 album, The
Black Album. The Moonspell song "Dreamless (Lilith and Lucifer)" is about a romantic relationship
between Lucifer and the demoness Lilith. The Swedish death metal band Kaamos
has an album called Lucifer Rising. There is also an album of the same name by
doom metal band Candlemass.
When Satan is depicted in movies and television, he is often represented as a red-
skinned man with horns or pointed ears on his head, hooves or bird-legs, a forked
tail (or one with a stinger), and a pitchfork. When trying to blend in or deceive
somebody, he is often represented as an ordinary human being, and sometimes only
his voice is heard. The list of resulting movies and films is too long to cite here!
The BBC Radio 4 comedy show Old Harry's Game features Andy Hamilton in
the leading role as Satan; in the first episode of Series Six, Satan states that he's
gone by many names over the centuries including Beelzebub, Mephistopheles, Old
Nick, Old Harry and Simon Cowell (one of his Satanic guises).
What about Literature? Here are just a few of the latest: Richard Kadrey's
Sandman Slim (2009) and the sequel Kill the Dead (2010), Joe Hill's Horns (2010),
Aiden Truss's Gape (2013), Kat Daemon's "Taming Darkness" (2014),Clive Barker's The Scarlet Gospels (2015).
Comics? In DC and Vertigo comics, the Devil is represented by Lucifer
Morningstar. In some Marvel Comics publications, a "Lucifer" has been mentioned
as being a hell lord with the same "fallen from Heaven" back story. [https://
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_in_popular_culture]
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California’s Sugar Bowl
Sugar Bowl is a ski and snowboard area in northern Placer County near Norden, California along the
Donner Pass of the Sierra Nevada, approximately 46 mi (74 km) west of Reno, Nevada on Interstate 80,
that opened on December 15, 1939. Sugar Bowl is a medium sized ski area in the Lake Tahoe region, and
is well known for its long history, significant advanced terrain, high annual snowfall and being one of the
closest ski areas to the San Francisco Bay Area. Sugar Bowl's terrain is 17% Beginner, 45% Intermediate
and 38% Advanced.
Sugar Bowl was founded by Hannes Schroll and a group of individual investors and is one of the few
remaining privately owned resorts in the Lake Tahoe area. Sugar Bowl was the first ski area in California
to install a chairlift and the first on the west coast to install a gondola lift.
The mountain peaks of Mt. Judah and Mt. Lincoln, that eventually became the ski slopes of the Sugar
Bowl ski resort, were a part of the American pioneers route, back in the 1800s. A part of the California
wagon trail called Roller Pass ran between Mt. Judah and Mt. Lincoln. It was one of the wagon trails
through Donner Pass that was used by settlers and prospectors, on the Emigrant Trail. Today, the same
pass can be reached by way of the Pacific Crest Trail or a new trail created
by Sugar Bowl ski resort, in 1994, called the Mt. Judah Loop trail.
Sugar Bowl is one of the oldest and longest running ski resorts on the
west coast, having been in operation for over 70 years. During the last sev-
eral decades Sugar Bowl ski resort has replaced its older double chair lifts
and added new quad lifts to open up new trails on its 4 mountain peaks, Mt.
Judah, Mt. Lincoln, Mt. Disney and the Crows Nest Peak. A 10-year expan-
sion of the resort began in 1992, with addition of a new parking lot and a
lodge at the base of Mt. Judah, a pedestrian village and more off-slope fa-
cilities.
Another addition came in 1999 with the founding of the Sugar Bowl
Academy (SBA), a college preparatory high school for competitive skiers.
The most notable alumni graduate from the ski academy has been Katie
Hitchcock who was selected to join and train with the U.S. Ski Team.
A new ski race was added at Sugar Bowl in 2004. Six skiers or snow-
boarders race down the hill at the same time, known as a skier cross-style
format. 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games competitor Daron Rahlves and
his sister Shannon, both won the event back to back in 2009 and 2010 for
t he men and w omen . [ h t tps : / / en .wik iped ia .o rg /wik i /
Sugar_Bowl_Ski_Resort]
An American Tour:
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Match Manufacturers:
Book Match Co. (1929-1940)
Another very small, little known manufacturer from the past. This is a Pre-War company that had
something of a rocky history. Located in Chicago, it was founded in 1929...only to be dissolved in Illinois
in 1930 (from state records); the remnants of the company were absorbed in 1933 (the records don’t say by
whom, though...could possibly have been one of the other Chicago companies, such as Chicago Match
Co.), but the Book Match Company, like the phoenix reborn (!), was re-established after that (there are
dated covers from 1939 and 1940, one shown below). Of course, there’s nothing to say that it wasn’t re-
established as a subsidiary of whatever company absorbed it in 1933, and the parent company simply
continued using its manumark (although why, I couldn’t imagine—these are fairly poor quality covers).
After this, it was apparently an early casualty of the coming world war, but that’s just a guess on my part.
Even though the covers aren’t top quality, they are interesting (but keep in mind that I find all of this old
material interesting!). First of all, as the first cover example below shows, early covers from the Book
Match Co. were XL’s (Talls). Second, the manumark tends to move around! Some covers have it in the
traditional place, just below the striker; other covers may have it on the saddle (also shown below); and still
others have the manumark on the inside.
As usual in such circumstances, only a few of these covers are known (68 are currently listed), and all are
keepers. They’re all at least 65 years old, and they’re certainly not run-of-the-mill.
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Joan Crawford
LUCILLE FAY LESEUR, (1906-1977), [pseud. Joan Crawford], was in San Antonio, TX, on March 23, 1906. Her
father deserted the family before she was born, and her life was marked by numerous hardships. Henry Cassin, her
stepfather, encouraged Lucille adopted the stage name Billie Cassin and began dancing in his music hall. When the
hall folded around 1916, the family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where Lucille began working to help support
the family. She worked at several menial jobs before finding work as a dancer. After winning a Charleston contest in
a Kansas City café, she moved to Chicago with $46 in her pocket and hopes of hitting the big time. She won a part
with a traveling dance company and performed as a chorine in some of the more reputable theaters in the Midwest.
She subsequently caught the eye of a MGM talent scout, who invited her to take a screen test. She passed the test,
signed a six-month contract for $75 a week, and moved to Hollywood in early 1925. She made such a positive impression during her early film career that Louis B. Mayer launched a fan-magazine
contest to find her a new name. The result was "Joan Crawford," a name she claimed she never liked. Her career with
MGM stretched from 1925 to 1942, and she became one of that company's biggest stars. Film theater owners voted
her among the top ten money-making stars from 1932 to 1936, and by the late 1930s she was one of Hollywood's
highest paid actresses. Joan's rise to the top of the Hollywood heap was marked by tenacity, hard work, and a
chameleon-like adaptability. Despite her successes, Joan Crawford believed that MGM was giving its better roles to
other actresses, and in 1942 she asked the studio to release her from her contract. MGM obliged, believing her
popularity was waning. Her career then saw new life with Warner Brothers, and she began playing strong-willed
maternal figures, such as the waitress-turned-restauratrice alienated from her daughter in "Mildred Pierce" (1945), the
film for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Though she was considered a has-been by the late
1950s, she made a surprising comeback in the highly successful "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962).
Similar roles in the handful of low-budget horror movies that followed rounded out a film career that spanned more
than 40 years and included performances in more than 80 films. She made her last movie in 1970.
Joan's formidable success as a Hollywood actress counterbalanced an exceptionally
rocky personal life. Her first three marriages, to Hollywood actors Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
(1929-33), Franchot Tone (1935-39), and Phillip Terry (1942-46), ended in divorce. She
suffered several miscarriages and eventually adopted four children who later claimed that
she treated them harshly. In 1955, she married Pepsi-Cola board chairman Alfred N.
Steele; they were married until his death
in 1959. Joan was elected to the Pepsi
board of directors and remained
associated with the firm for the rest of
her life. She died of a heart attack in her
Manhattan home on May 10, 1977. The
terms of her will suggested the depth of
the animosity that had developed
between her and her children. Twins
Cynthia and Cathy each received
$77,500, but Christina and Christopher
were cut off without a cent "for reasons
which are well known to them." A year
after Joan Crawford's death Christina
published "Mommie Dearest", a
scathing auto-biography of growing up
as an abused child. The book was turned
into a Hollywood movie in 1981, with
Faye Dunaway as the title character.
[ C o u r t e s y o f h t t p : / / w w w .
famoustexans.com]
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SOUTHERN SWAPFEST
2018: March 20 through March
25, 2018. Holiday Inn Hotel and
Suites - Busch Gardens, Tampa,
FL 33612 Latest details at
http://www.southernswapfla.
com or contact Frank Denzler
THE AGE-OLD
TOPIC OF READER
INPUT
[Reprised from 2003]
A definition of a hobby might
be that it’s an ancillary activity
especially loved by an
individual who is willing to
spend long hours and much
effort in its pursuit. Well, that
being the case, one would think
that there would be few things
easier in this world than
penning a few lines every once
and awhile and sending in said
contributions to your editors for
inclusion in your various hobby
publications. Right?
WRONG? Hobby editors have
been screaming since the
inception of the hobby, itself,
over 60 years ago, that getting
bulletin input from readers is
worse than pulling teeth!...And,
in fact, in most cases it simply
can’t be done. As an editor, one
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UES 2017: June 7-11, Ramada
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Room: $82 single or double/
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RMS CONVENTION 2017: August 21-27, 2017. Ramada
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Always check Convention
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can beg, plead, cajole, threaten,
shame...it normally does no good
at all. Usually, at best, the result
is simply polite excuses as to
why it’s not going to happen. At
worst, there’s simply that
deafening silence from the vast
silent majority...and, boy, are
they silent!
What’s the problem? Are
readers just INHERENTLY
EVIL, attempting to thwart the
Editor’s angelic goal of
producing a good, interesting
bulletin?—Well, perhaps...a
few...(I could name a couple,
come to think of it! hee hee).
But, the majority, I suspect, are
good-hearted souls who just
can’t find the time or inclination
to do so.
For a significant number, I
believe, the problem may simply
be a lack of confidence when it
comes to writing. On initial
examination, I’d have to admit,
it would appear a fairly daunting
prospect to have to lay your
thoughts out in front of any
audience at all, but to
additionally do that in the form
of writing, where your thoughts
are not only open to scrutiny, but
your vocabulary, mechanics, and
syntax are, as well, would make
that prospect even more
unattractive for some people
[although certainly not for those
of us who are opinionated,
verbose, and extroverted!—
That’s why we become editors,
after all!]
The problem of lacking
confidence to write is the same
as that involved in being wary of
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There will be the usual
overflowing freebie tables, big
auctions, display contest,
dealers, and more.
Plus, there’s also the delight of
seeing old acquaintances and
new faces.
Stay tuned for all the details
next month.
Happy Birthday!
Cigrang, Bob.........................5-4
Hayes, William....................5-7
Jakubiak, David..................5-13
Conner, Bob........................5-15
Donnelson, Bob..................5-29
Patel, Deepak........................6-1
Gordon, Philip ......................6-2
Dorval, Pierre........................6-3
Bell, Larry.............................6-9
Cahn, Alan..........................6-11
Goleman, Gerald.................6-25
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If all goes well, we’ll have our
annual complete coverage of
this year’s AMCAL convention,
s p o n s o r e d b y A n g e l u s
Matchcover Club, in our next
issue.
I didn’t attend last year’s
convention in San Diego; it was
just too long a drive for me. I
am going to this year’s event in
Palm Springs, though, and I’m
hoping that the location, if
nothing else, attracts a good
crowd this time.
public speaking—and the
solution to both is the
s a m e . . . s u c c e s s b r i n g s
confidence...so you try your
hand, perhaps in a small way at
first, and test the waters. A letter
to the Ed., a small article, etc.,
just to see what happens. And,
when you see that no one is
going to pounce on you and take
your head off, and that your
peers are actually interested in
what you have to say, your
confidence builds. One thing
leads to another, and pretty soon
you’re not only writing larger,
more in-depth offerings, but
you’re writing letters to the
editor of your local newspaper
and attending city council
meetings. The next thing you
know, you’re on the local school
board...then you’ve been elected
mayor. You successfully run for
state assemblyperson...then
governor...and one day, there
you are, comfortably ensconced
in the Oval Office!....and all
because you took the time and
the effort to make a small
contribution to your hobby
bulletin.
May’s Smile