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...Heath in San Antonio in 1874, both had the dust of several trouping years in their nostrils. McIntyre had specialized in buck-&-wing. Heath sang. They were both in need of a partner. They hit it off from the start, learned to settle occasional differences by flipping a coin. By 1880 they had reached Manhattan, did so well on the Bowery that they moved uptown to Tony Pastor's at the unheard-of figure of $150 a week. In The Georgia Minstrels, McIntyre & Heath lasted some 30 years, gave 12,000 performances. They made their last professional appearance...
Near Holmquist, S. D., more than 50 residents of a rural mail route took down their mailboxes, causing service to be suspended. They were protesting the appointment of Tom Coin as carrier. He does not live in the post office district to which he has been appointed...
...summer through southern Illinois such tales as this have been the fresh coin of conversation in beer joints, barber shops, boarding houses, depots and town halls, adding their drawled excitement to the bustle and clank of an authentic oil boom. Farmers had their first intimation of it early last year when Chicago's great Pure Oil Co. started methodically buying oil rights on acre after acre in the country east and south of Vandalia...
...many virgins and too many prostitutes are two sides of the same counterfeit coin...
...familiar with the "glided dogman" which passes as counterfeit coin for real aesthetic criticism. We can readily identify the same type of spurious currency stamped with social and political symbols rapidly passed about from hand to hand by the inhabitants of each conforming world. But if we are to reject this false metal we must be prepared each one of us to mint our own--we must be prepared to make our own judgments of the most intricate and complex situations. To do this with any degree of success requires, indeed, "a rich background and a disciplined insight...