AN EXPENSIVE LIGHT.
CIGARETTE COST THOUSANDS. It is not every day that anyone, even a politician, lights a cigarette with a fio,ooo-dollar note. The Mayor of Salt Lake City (Mr E. B. Erwin) made cigarette-lighting a momentous occasion when he gathered together all municipal workers at a council meeting and lighted a cigarette with a 60,000-dollar bond. The bond was a tax anticipation warrant that was never sold because of the abandoning of tax-spending plans by the city. “It was the fulfilment of a lifetime dream,” the Mayor said.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 110, 10 April 1937, Page 9
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89AN EXPENSIVE LIGHT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 110, 10 April 1937, Page 9
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