Percy Hogan, native Chapel Hillian and University alumnus, now a resident of Kingsport, Tennessee, came in by automobile Sunday and stayed until Monday afternoon. He was accompanied by his friend, Tom Pratt, owner and editor of the daily newspaper in Kingsport.
Mr. Hogan and Mr. Pratt are ardent stamp-collectors. In the last year or so they have concentrated upon Confederate stamps. By accident they acquired jointly, a few months ago, two Confederate stamps which they sold for enough money to defray the expenses of a two-weeks vacation. “That’s how we happen to be here now,” said Mr. Hogan to one of his old friends upon whom he called Sunday afternoon.
They set out northward from Kingsport in Mr. Pratt’s car and traveled by Bristol, Roanoke, and Lynchburg to Richmond. Turning south, they drove to Warrenton in this state and thence to Ocracoke down on the coast. From there they struck for Tennessee by way of Chapel Hill.
From catalogues and philatelist periodicals they knew of stamp-collectors all over the country, and everywhere they stopped they held confabs with collectors and engaged in swapping, buying, and selling. Just before they left Chapel Hill they visited the office of the Weekly and arranged for the insertion of an advertisement notifying all and sundry that they were in the market for rare stamps.
From page 3 of The Chapel Hill Weekly, Friday, July 31, 1925
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