Money Factory of Uncle Sam Guards National Notes
Frank G. Carpenter tours the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington learned security at the money making complex. He notes hundreds of workers from $1 a day to high annual wages operate under tight safeguards with steel cages vaults and time-locked doors. Paper sheets are registered from Dalton Mass to the Treasury, guarded by guards and costly dies, with engravers paid per week and a long precision process finishing notes for national banks.
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Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Frank G. Carpenter
Washington Star
Sam
Uncle Sam
Bureau
Dalton
Mass
Treasury
Treasury Department
Tower of London
Carlisle
National Bank
A Shred of Silk in Hampshire Church
A tattered silk fragment from the Forty-fourth Foot regimental color hangs in Alverstoke church near the Hampshire coast. The relic bears witness to battles from Burma to Cabul, with the fallen guards laid to rest along the Cabul road.
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Alverstoke
Hampshire
Forty-fourth Foot
Indian Plains
Indus
Cabul
Cabul Road
Temple Bar
Tramp Promotes Mock Seed Scheme In Jerseyville
A tramp imitatively sold jimson weed seeds as onion seeds in Jerseyville Missouri. He collected seeds, bought onions as samples, and peddled small packages to townsfolk, making good money before slipping away by train at night.
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Jerseyville
New York Sun
Witty exchanges and political quips in Irish satire
A collection of humorous barroom anecdotes and political quips from Irish wit and satirical notes. Toler masters repartee with Lord Selestale as they trade bar stories and a skating joke. The piece zips through dyspepsia tonics and election jests, ending with rural and political aphorisms.
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Toler
Lord Selestale
Sassenach
Ireland
Keng
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