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Gold Certificates. Issued in the same denominations as Greenbacks, excepting $1, $2 and $5, and also issued in $5,000 and $10,000 denominations; unlimited in issue for gold in the Treasury (at least one-third of which must be coined) unless the gold reserve against Greenbacks falls below $100,000,000; legal tender; receivable for all public dues; redeemable in gold coin at the Treasury...
...Love with Love. Vincent Lawrence, author of this play, seems to have on the brain the prenuptial aspects of the triangle. Some weeks ago a piece under his signature was produced by George M. Cohan (Two Fellows and a Girl) in which a girl flipped a coin to decide which of her two " steadies " she would marry. In the present play she flirts wildly with two men and finally marries a third. The theme in both deals with the difficulties besetting the bewildered young lady when she finally decides to stop flirting and go in for love as a serious...
Fame in the headlines and temporary paralysis were the coin of pay- ment received by Carbis A. Walker, Cleveland citizen, for swimming Lake Erie. He propelled himself 33 miles, some of the time in fog and rough water, in 20 hours and 15 minutes...
...Fellows and a Girl. A girl, on fire in two places with two equal flames of love, directs the contenders to flip a coin for her favor. For her sake (and for the sake of the play) the gentlemen comply. The winner marches her off to church...
Five years later the trio reassembles to audit the proceeds of their gamble. After going over the books for two acts the girl decides the coin spun in her favor. The odd man seeks solace with a finale flapper...