Word: silver
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...silver shield offered by the B. A. A. to the school winning the most out of nine meetings has been won twice by Hopkinson, twice by Worcester High School, once by Roxbury Latin School, and the remaining time Hopkinsons and Roxbury Latin tied...
LOST.- Small, dark purse with 10 dollar bill, a nickel, and silver ten cent piece with monogram on one side. Lost between Cambridge Safe Deposit and Hazen's store. Finder please leave at Leavitt and Peirce...
...have shown that of all the evils that afflict our currency system today, not one is inherent in the legal tenders; for of the three causes of the present trouble, the first and second were due to an iniquitous act passed wholly in the interests of silver. And for the third and final cause, I have shown that we must not blame the legal tenders themselves, but the absurd connection of the two departments of the treasury; and that mandatory provision for endless reissue. If the redeemed notes had been held in the treasury we should have had an automatic...
...tenders should be retired," he asked, "would the danger of inflation be removed?" At any time the people desired they could demand a new issue of legal tender, or resort to some form of wild-cat banking, or, what is more probable, they would resort to some form of silver inflation. Twenty-five per cent, of the currency would be called into the treasury and burned, and the clamor for silver will be increased to that extent. Since the silver dollar actually possesses some intrinsic value, it furnishes a much more insidious temptation to inflation than do the legal tender...
...evening was Dobyn's summary. He said that the retirement of all the greenbacks was too sweeping a step. The present fiscal situation is perilous. But the danger, instead of being due to the principle of floating notes on a gold basis, comes from outside causes like the silver movement, which influence the ignorant public...