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   From: wdstarr@panix.com   
      
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   "John F. Eldredge"  said:   
      
   > When I was a teenager, I worked as a paperboy for a couple of   
   > years, selling _Grit_ newspapers.  This was a nationally-published   
   > paper, and one of its unusual features was that, rather than   
   > subscribing to it, you would pay the paperboy in cash each week.   
   > So, I handled a lot of coins.  I bought a harmonica at a music   
   > store, and paid for it entirely in coins.  When I had counted out   
   > most of the price in coin, the store owner said, "That's enough",   
   > so I got an unexpected discount.   
      
   Wow.  I remember that ads for selling _Grit_ -- not ads for the   
   product, but ads soliciting people (kids) to sell it -- were close   
   to ubiquitous in comic books in the 1960s, but this is the first   
   time in my life that I've encountered anyone who actually _did_ it.   
      
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