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...superceded by George Sutherland on September 18, 1922. He was born in Ohio, studied law at Western Reserve University, and practised law in Youngstown and later in Cleveland. He was general council for the New York, Cleveland, and St. Louis Railroad, commonly known as the Nickel Plate, for 13 years...
...marks of aluminum coins. At present there are some 200 mark coins in circulation, but with the new issue 500 and 1,000 mark coins will appear. Before the war the only coins in circulation were one and two pfennig copper coins, 5, 10 and 25 pfennig nickel pieces and 10 and 20 mark gold pieces...
...books for $16.90. Shakespeare, Dickens, Molière, Byron, Tom Paine, Havelock Ellis?philosophy, history, literature, poetry?How to Live 100 Years, Rhyming Dictionary, Care of the Baby, How to Be an Orator. Step up, gennelmen'n laydeeez 'n take your pick! Any individual book for only fi' cents, a nickel, the twentieth part of a dollar! Ringmaster of and barker for this three-ring circus of literature: Mr. E. Haldeman-Julius of Girard, Kans...
...United States government has already taken steps for the adoption of the metric system, and now conducts all surveys and map work by it. The familiar "Buffalo Nickel" has the standard weight of five grams. The foot and the "lb." are, by law, expressed as fractions of the meter and kilogram. And beyond this, in the field of electrical engineering, all measurements are based on the "centimeter, gram, second" system; while many prominent manufacturing concerns have already adopted it. Only the force of inertia always present in the "great American public" has prevented its general acceptance...
...course any large city produces an occasional lead nickel and is troubled occasionally by a real crime or two; but these latter are very rare in New York since only in the shopping districts and far downtown is there the least likelihood of a criminal being successfully swallowed up in the throng. But even with this New York is not satisfied. Lest a single crime escape unnoticed criminals are now to be arrested in the crowded districts within the new "dead lines" merely on the strength of their past records. Appearance within the proscribed bounds is itself sufficient proof...