Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-09-26
SILVER DOLLARS A
RAR|TY;THEP PAPER
BEING PREFERRED
Washington Takes Care Of the
Pennies, But Nobody Wants
to Pack Around a Heavy
Bunch of Coin.
,3y the Ramblcu


Washington Sept 2G silver DOL.
lars are as scare, uu WASHINGTON as
$1,000 bills IN New Mexico
There NAV ID, uush,l, of them u
the big vaults OF fhc governments treas.
urN, but they are NOT loo circulation.
have faint recollection of having
one silver dollar after running De-
Pullman blockade on aus way to Wash.
maton last June o. i- impossible nov
to recall just what became oft 30 or
who took b from me without my hay-
ing been arrested ON suspicion Al .
know les hat that Nas ,ho last silver
dollar thai nay ,scs hay, rested upou.
Now ! am not iuhins / mean. liter
ally thar / have NOT seen % sil,c. dol.
lal in more than three months
There are other people In Washing
tom who have probably no. ,dslcd
their eyes on the silver en2nyings o'
Liberty boo jus, this snap, Jon years.
There was shove. OF silver dollars.
ion Washington about % month ago. hu'
only q few people BEGAN, infested
with them The, gof into the uuNiIi-
ing hands of few Uadasmon WHO
persuaded tine banks fo take hem of
lIif'II NtAlil" Ilf' |NIIHN IAIlN lf'Nl .N|'
bulky pieces to tho United states
treasury whore they are SIN tumru.
ING unless they nave been irui"ntcI.
away 20 some other parts of The Coun.
Is WheT, ihc people DO not object Co.
having q few bucks dIagsiug them
down 10 the ground ON the gee side
Bui Washington viii NOT have lhoH
About month ago the southern.
railway brought los pay car 90 Wash.
inlfon ana paid On MS employees lu|
cash instead o. .n checks as had been
the custom This pay car carried n|
few bushels O' silver dollars, and hey
got scattered over town Boa this way
The recipients hurried iu their trades.
men and got nd of them as soon asl
possible The trades people rushed
'hcm on 20 the hanks and they were
soon ont OF circulation
The cashier at one bank, when ro.
cciying = silver dollars from one uor
chant remarked rhui he had alread'
received 80 pieces OF this species ct
money following DE shower
The unit value ln Washington is thoI
penny The price OF most everything
IS in odd cents Won bul one pound
of sugar Tor q cents Two pounds lo
~ cents Three pouud. ION Is cents
and so ON. The small housokccpot
does not buy quarters worth OF sus-
an she mus take ~ cents worth orr
some other pound unit
Tradesmon ana customers soon learn
10 appreciate thu value of The pennies |
here IN New Mexico You may takol
one or Two pennies uach In change iur |
the children sometimes you do NOT
bother hul there are go many little ]
corners al finance here thar the penny |
just exactly nlls that you soon learn
10 hold them ~ their true value
When you buy plain wire hatpns
you are not expected to gct nickois |
worth \ penny will get Won pSck
age with as many AS any ordinary RAJ
demands ID YOU buy more YOU are
considered cNtrayaganl The shop |
keeper is Just a. careful To return cv,
cry penny In change as II they were
quarters or dimes.
Newspapers are sold at and g pen
MES each except on sunday Every !
body seems 20 read AN The papers both !
morning and evening There was an
exception IN this on the night Henry |
Bealtio was convicted for The murder !
OF His wife az Richmond Both the AFT !
ornoou papers got ont big extras ius' !
az supper time ana the ncwsboys took |
advantage OF the big story 10 charge e
nickel tor the papers. There was mnch |
vigorous protest but the boys won
out Taking the claims OF tn news |
papers as true and newspapers some /
limos toll Tho tituth moro thuu 700 .
uu0 papers were sold that night
But returning 10 the main subject !
If You Wanl change for a ten snOt bill
in Washington You get i've -four one
dollar bills, a half dollar one quarter !