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...York State Public Service Commission threw the once ubiquitous U.S. nickel for another fall. The commission told the New York Telephone Co. that it might raise its basic coin-box charge to 10?. The Rochester Telephone Corp. had already done it, New Jersey, California, Washington and Oregon companies had asked for the same boost...
...Each His Own. In San Francisco, Superior Court Judge Herbert C. Kaufman awarded Mrs. Chesley L. Woodfield a divorce and $100 a month alimony, also stipulated that she must return her husband's banjo, stamp & coin collections and false teeth...
PITTSFIELD, May 31--Captain Sandy Calbouts called "head, and the Crimson polo team won a hard-fought match on the loss of a coin. The loss was decided on late today, when neither team was able to break a 4 to 4 lie during two sudden-death five-minute overtime periods...
...over the identity of the sunken ship, but around Tobermory it became accepted as fact that she was the 960-ton galleon Duque de Florencia, a ship laden with gold and silver plate and carrying the Armada paymaster's chest, a hoard of 30 million ducats in gold coin...
Since that time some 15 attempts have been made to salvage the Florencia's treasure. They yielded handfuls of gold and silver coin, a cannon designed by Benvenuto Cellini, the skeleton of a boy, some silver plate etched with Spanish arms, religious medals, ammunition and boarding pikes. But under the silt of years the bulk of the Spanish treasure still, presumably, lies where it sank, tucked securely "beneathe ye sell of ye gunroome...