Life — November 1, 1923 — page 38: what you’re looking at

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Epitor or Lire: Sir: Your paragraph touching the threat- ened withdrawal of the two-dollar bill, following a statement from the Treasury Department that the government can’t account for its unpopularity, moves me to ask whether a superstition (with which I have been familiar for eight or nine years in these infidel parts) that this bill carries ill luck may not account for the preju- dice against it. I have pot seen a two- dollar bill in Indiana for five years, I know numbers of men who refuse to accept them. 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In traveling throw New England last summer I was struc by the large number of two-dollar bills tr circulation, and it occurred to me th the whole output had been pushed eas: ward from the corn belt—possibly wi the malign purpose of the Supreme Jin to crush Coolidge and make Hughes nomination certain next summer. T remain, sir, ete., MereDITH NICHOLSON P. I neglected to mention one oth fact,—that there exists out here among the tall corn a schismatic body whos members, though fully believing that t possess one of these bills is to cour disaster, hold that by nipping off on corner the jinx may be placated. seems to me a dangerous here: lated to detract from the dignity of th true faith, and I must decline to give the authoritative weight of my name. M,N. Indianapolis, September 26, 1923. comicbooks.com