Word: scrip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Purchase enough Valentine scrip to exchange for White Rock...
...Morton, for social reasons, did not care to acquire the island by living on it for three years. So she had to learn about, and collect, Valentine scrip...
...interests, Valentine failed to file this assignment with the U. S., with the result that he was "squatted" out of his holdings. He filed suit. The courts refused to give him back his own land, improved by squatters, but the U. S. recompensed him by issuing to him scrip (certificates) for 13,400 acres of public domain land anywhere else in the U. S. Valentine did not take up his acreage, but dribbled his scrip out in small sales to those who wished to buy from the U. S. land not otherwise purchaseable. Thus the scrip was scattered over...
Valentine scrip dealers were hard to find. Mrs. Morton finally discovered one in Colorado from whom she bought enough to acquire White Rock. Recently she presented the scrip at the General Land Office, received her patent to White Rock, was thoroughly happy. Said she: "I never owned an island before. It seems even now that it may be the result of a belated reading of 'Cinderella' and an indiscreet rarebit. I am quite frankly undecided what to do with it and am open to suggestions...
...Holy Writ presents us with the picture of David and Goliath, teaching the relative value of might against right, of physical prowess against spiritual courage. Humanly speaking, it was folly for David to challenge Goliath. But, with God's blessing, the staff, the scrip, the stone and sling of the shepherd boy, symbolic of spiritual power, prevailed signally over the sword, the spear and the shield of the giant warrior, typical of brute force...