Word: tenino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tenino, Wash., D. M. Major, publisher, justice of the peace, published this advertisement in his newspaper...
Wood. In Washington, brave little Tenino's celebrated wooden money experiment (TIME, March 14) came to a glorious close, thanks to the nation's numismatists. When Tenino's one & only bank failed last year, Publisher Donald M. Major and a group of public-spirited men thought up a plan to keep some kind of currency circulating in the town. They issued to each depositor plywood certificates valued at 75% of his bank deposit. Gradually the bank's affairs were settled. Last week Tenino bought in its wooden money with U. S. money, found that...
...take any wooden money" is a traditional piece of rustic advice. But last month, when the bank failed at Tenino, Wash., ten miles from Olympia, two doctors and a newspaper publisher issued coins cut out of veneer plywood and Tenino took them. Security for the wooden coinage was the town's faith in these three men and the dividends which the collapsed bank will pay when its affairs are liquidated. Last week Tenino's money was not only as good as gold; it was better. Numismatists were offering as high as one U. S. dollar bill...
...Tenino, Wash., Mark O'Neil went fishing, caught one trout, dragged up one slot machine, in which he dropped a nickel. The machine did not work...