SILVER TO BE REPLACED BY "SHINPLASTERS."
TORONTO, Oct. 24. The Mining Corporation of Canada on Saturday sold >; 200,000 ounces of silver at the highest price silver has brought since the early "GO'S. Banking institutions m the city are arranging with the Government for a new issue of 25 cent paper pieces. The return of "shinplasters'* may be looked for shortly. This action on tho part of the -banks is taken to indicate that bar silver will continue its upward trend to a parity with gold within a short time, and preparations to issue paper bills are apparently being taken to meet the situation.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14442, 31 October 1917, Page 3
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103SILVER TO BE REPLACED BY "SHINPLASTERS." Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14442, 31 October 1917, Page 3
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