Dollar Passes Through 220 Hands in Year in Go lumbus
A Mississippi town article recounts a secretary’s experiment with circulating dollars. Slip-stamped bills moved through merchants, farmers, teachers, a doctor, a lawyer, and a child’s lesson, returning to the bank after a year. The piece argues income and advertising help keep money in circulation.
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Hoarder Loses Eight Thousand Hidden in Mattress
Montreal Star reports a Winnipeg style tale of Prank Wojaski, a late day laborer who hid about $8000 in his mattress. After losing his job he sought civic relief, the inspector condemned the mattress as unsanitary and sent it to the incinerator, leaving Wojaski to return to a clean new mattress and no savings.
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Woljnski
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Stevens
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Montreal Star
Fragmentary Speech of The Times on Aged Consonants
Fragmented chat-like excerpt captures voices of mixed eras and did not form a coherent news item. It mentions a storm, a drowning, a yacht, a professor, and a historical allusion to Louis and a mob, but no clear event, date, or identifiable individuals beyond vague references.
Oddities and anecdotes from a cottage humor page
A jumble of misquoted songs and rustic vignettes, including a rough doggerel about Mike Huntry and a hunter, a butcher joke about a 25 pound piece of beer, and a Chinese job applicant's letter noting typing noise and self reliance amid translation gaps.
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