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Rallying around Bill Gallon's barn, the Johnston kinfolk celebrated with mint juleps, received from their host prints of the precious photo finish that had won the hallowed Hambletonian in Owner Johnston's first...
...Empire (only one million of whom are French) with a steadily dwindling French Army is trying even for the adroit General. The Moslem natives, subject to a ceaseless barrage of German propaganda, have been grumbling under the British blockade that deprives them of sugar for their much-loved sweetened mint...
Gentmun, suh, draw yo'selves up a chair and have a mint julep. You all is gonna need a stiff reenforcement to carry you all through this yere picture. Suh, what them yankees out tha in Hollywood has sayd abaht Vuhginny is a dahrect insult to us who would be willin to give oauh blood for deah ole Vuhginny. Wha, they done even had a yankee ridin a pure bred hoss--who ever saw a yankee who could ride a hoss like some of oauh southen gentmuns...
...solve it. They must be crazy. Prospectors dig gold out of the ground, sell it to the Treasury, and they turn around and bury it in another hole in Kentucky and hire soldiers to guard it. ... A man should be able to take his ore down to the mint, get the Government to strike off the coins for him and keep the metal that rightfully belongs to him. There would be little or no paper money . . . and we would get rid of them germ-carrying dollar bills. There are 1,014 germs on every dollar bill. Silver and gold...
Announcing that the national defense tax, which has added one or two cents to the purchase price of some 40-odd items (notably cigarets, gasoline, liquor, cosmetics) since it became effective July 1, has drained all the pennies from the U. S. Mint, Superintendent Edwin H. Dressel explained: "We've shipped out millions of 'em, and if the demand keeps up, we'll have to throw all our resources on pennies, 24 hours...