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One Way Of Banking

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
January
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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"You ought to come up into our part of tho state," said a tall countryrnan over the bank counter the other day to the cashier of a Griswolil street bank. "Where's that?" inquired the cashier. "Up in the Upper Península." "What have you got there that's interesting?" "Got peoplc that'll make inore monej in ten minutos doing banking tlieir way than you'll make your way in ten years." "How do thcy do it?" "Discountin." "We rnake something in that lino our3elves." "Yes, I s'pose so; but not like theni. By criminy," he went on emphatically. "Ihad anote for $150 the other day I wanted discounted, and 1 took it to one of them shavers, and after he had figgered about ten minutes he said I owed him$1.37." "How did he make that out?" inquireá the puzzled cashier. "That's what 1 said to him, and lic told me that according to his way of calculating the discount on a note liko that, the whole thing would amount to $151.37, and he was willing to take tho note if I'd pay the balance in cash. You ain't got any bankin like that in Detroit, have you?" and the cashier hastened t assvtré him that Detroit bankers didn't

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News