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moment it is opened. The sample letter was short enough to be read quickly,
and the prices quoted were reasonable. In addition, the illustration which was
a tracing from a magazine drawing, gave the business man an idea of the
possible uses for this type of letter.

Anyone securing one of those portable duplicators can build a good income
in the same way Mildred did if the business is there. Small business concerns,
lawyers, sales agents and real estate men are the best prospects since they
regularly use small quantities of letters and price lists. Restaurants and drug
stores with lunch counters often have a number of menus run off for
circulation in the vicinity of their stores. As many as three thousand copies
may be run off from one stencil.

HuntingRareCoins

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NEWSPAPER story about a woman who sold a half dollar to a coin
collector for $400 prompted W. F. Williams to devote his spare time to a
search for rare coins. He got a list of “wanted” pennies, nickels, quarters, and
half dollars and memorized the dates and mint marks of all coins for which
big premiums were offered. Each night he examined every small coin he had
received during the day when changing paper money in restaurants, cigar
stores, and gasoline stations, and this spare time effort paid handsome profits.
Williams declares that many coins are worth more than one thousand times
their face value, and that there are thousands of wanted American coins
circulating throughout the country every day, their value unknown to their
owners.

“The first coin I sold was a 1913 Liberty Head nickel. This brought me $50
and encouraged me to search for other rare coins,” said Williams. From a
street car conductor a few days later, he received an American half-dime in
change, a silver piece minted in 1803. “That conductor believed he was
giving me a dime when he handed me that small silver piece. I was glad to
get it, however, for I sold it a few days later for $30. One day, about a week
later, I was stepping up to pay my check in a lunch room. The man ahead of