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...foreign exchange were not sufficiently complicated already, many new currency units have been created in the last few years as a result of recent War conditions abroad. The several new governments set up by the Treaty of Versailles naturally had to have some standard coin, and have thus 'been the source of several new ones. The Republic of Lavia adopted the "lat," equal to a gold French franc, or 19.3? in U. S. money. The Free State of Danzig chose the "gulden" of about equal value. Lithuania, however, in establishing its new standard coin, the "lit," fixed its value...
...order that he might have visions of the wealth which her face represented, a miser once married a woman whose profile duplicated one he had seen on a coin. The tale is told by O. Henry. Since the Bland-Allison Act of 1878, more than 770,000,000 silver dollars*; have been minted. They have been admired for the beautiful head they bore. According to the designer, George Morgan, it was a portrait of the most perfect head he had ever seen. Whose? That of a Philadelphia schoolmistress, who never married-Miss Anna W. Williams. She resigned last week after...
...stamp of a real publisher's personality always descends upon his properties. The gold may be old, but the mintage is the publisher's. Everyone knew that there would be a new face on the coin when Cyrus H. K. Curtis took control of the New York Evening Post (TIME, Dec. 31). Last week, readers examined the new currency. It had undergone a great Curtismorphosis...
...years Dr. Clifford has been one of England's leaders. Said Lloyd George once: "I would rather ring a coin on the conscience of John Clifford than on that of any other man in England." Ten years ago he became widely known in the U. S. when he presided at the Baptist World Conference in Philadelphia and spoke with long-remembered eloquence. The universities of the U. S., led by that of Chicago, heaped honors upon...
...used as a divining-rod for locating subterranean oil; the " electro-bioscope;" the " reflexo-phone," a loud speaker arrangement which makes sounds indicative of certain diseases. Dr. Abrams predicts that these machines will be perfected to the point where people can stand on street corners, drop a coin in the slot and get a complete diagnosis...