Word: counterfeiter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Placards will be posted in conspicuous places near the gate to direct men to the sections reserved for Harvard and Yale. There has been a new arrangement of seats so that those on the coaches can easily see over the heads of those in the seats. In regard to counterfeit tickets it is not known that any have been issued. Mr. Lowell, manager of the Harvard eleven, has endeavored in vain to find any ground for the rumor and the Yale management deny that as far as they can learn, any have been issued. The eleven left yesterday afternoon...
...giving the state complete control over the printing and the distribution of ballots, there will be less opportunity for corruption and intimidation.- (a) it will be impossible to counterfeit ballots; (b), The excessive power of political organizations will be lessened;- (c), The expense of printing and distributing the ballots will no longer be an inducement for bribery;- (d), Trading will become difficult;- (e), Absolute secrecy in voting can be enforced...
...They are Protean in their natures," my guide replied. "They can assume any form, counterfeit any emotion, mock any expressions of feeling. Thus it is that they deceptively adapt themselves to the world, and their duplicity is never discovered. Too many there are that are like this author, but they are growing less and less in number. Silently the celestial policemen, among whom I am one, are carrying them to their reward. They are called the Lotos-Eaters of Earth.- But the East is brightening; the day is near. I must be away...
...coins struck in honor of Sulla, of Brutus and of Pompey. One of the copper coins contains the liead of Gordianus Africanus II., who reigned forty days. Another shows the ill-fated features of a sixty-six-day emperor. Had these monarchs been as slow in securing their counterfeit presentments as a Harvard senior of today is, the collection would be poorer by several brave heads. Another larger but more miscellaneous numismatic collection consist of several hundred English, French, Spanish, East Indian and Chinese coins. Although most of these are later by several centuries than the Roman coins, they...
...extensive counterfeiting case has been unearthed in Kirwin, Kan. Geo. F. Best, arrested for passing counterfeit money, and just from Boston, lived in a dugout on an 80-acre homestead, 20 miles north of Atchinson. The sheriff searched the house and found his pal, named Hudson, a complete set of dies and a quantity of unfinished counterfeit coin in different parts of the house...