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Ezeemunny, Dopey Dough, and California's Ham and Eggs Movement

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Politics and Paper Money

Ezeemunny, Dopey Dough, and California’s Ham and Eggs Movement

     BY THE END OF THE 1930s, Americans had seen a lot of (and perhaps had enough of) scrip and other unofficial alternatives to the U.S. dollar. Even well into the decade, however, the state of California remained stubbornly receptive to monetary nostrums for economic recovery.

J. Proctor Knott, Jr.

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Bringing Vignettes to Life

J. Proctor Knott, Jr.

     WHEN FRANCES HODGDON BURNETT'S sentimental rags-to-riches story, Little Lord Fauntleroy, was published in 1886, it ignited a craze among middle-class mothers across the United States to dress their sons up in the same confection of velvet and lace that adorned Burnett’s plucky protagonist.

Mrs. Oliver Harriman's Bet on the Lottery

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Mrs. Oliver Harriman’s Bet on the Lottery

Introduction

     WHILE LOTTERIES SERVED important financial purposes in the early United States, by the second half of the 19th century their operation was increasingly restricted or suppressed by the American states. Public disapproval of lotteries peaked with federal action undertaken to shut down the Louisiana Lottery in 1890. This form of gambling would remain illegal in the United States for another seventy years.

J.G. Cocking's Tea Check

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Bringing Vignettes to Life

JG Cocking’s Tea Check

An Introduction to the Tea Check

     As a vehicle for premium marketing, the “tea check” has been overshadowed by the more extensive coupon and certificate circulations issued in the early 20th century by outfits like the United Cigar Stores and the