Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, a bullock was slaughtered, in its stomach found: seven pounds of nails, several pieces of copper wire, a silver brooch, a shoe buckle, a rubber boot and a derby hat. The bullock was pronounced healthy, its steaks pronounced tender...
William Hope Harvey was born in what is now Putnam County. West Virginia. He practiced law in Chicago, moved to Denver, mined silver, made money, listened to debates on the silver question. No economist, he published in 1894 a pamphlet called "Coin's Financial School," in which "Professor Coin" held a series of imaginary interviews with leading bankers, farmers, editors, on free silver coinage as a political cureall. "Professor Coin's" financial sophistries were made to defeat and convince all-comers. Within a year Harvey had sold 1,000,000 copies of his pamphlet to debt-ridden farmers...
...Spectators who had paid 25? admission looked puzzled. Some one started singing "The More We Get Together." Rain pattered down on the tent roof. After much debate the brand-new Liberty Party formed a national platform: 1) a five-year moratorium on all private debts, including mortgages; 2) free silver coinage at a 16-to-1 gold ratio; 3) government ownership of all banks; 4) government ownership of public utilities; 5) abolition of taxes; 6) unsecured paper currency. Out of the Liberty Party's platform was kept a "wild suggestion by a St. Louis statistician" that the Government...
...Borax") Smith, 85; of injuries sustained in a fall; in Oakland, Calif. Prospecting for gold in Death Valley, he found great borax deposits. Before he was 30 he controlled the U.S. market, was many times a millionaire. At 50, his fortune gone, he got a fresh start from a silver mine he had bought and forgotten. At 75 he bought a new borax deposit, made a new fortune. When he died most of that was gone...
...Amateur Trapshooting Association; at Vandalia, Ohio. Shooting at clay pigeons for the tenth time in his life, Trapshooter Roebuck broke 96 out of a 100 at 17 yards, won the shoot-off against Fred Harlow of Newark, Ohio and Ray F. Willbaum of Greenville, Ohio. He was awarded a silver replica of the A. Bennett Gates trophy, on which his name will be engraved; a $600 tea set; and $1,000 in cash...