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Show ONE IS BORN EACH MINUTE Here Is Gold Assayer Who Bought "Gold Brick" Believing It to Be the Real Thing. The fact that gold is so scarce nowadays now-adays Is responsible for an expensive mistake which a St. Louis assayer. made recently. When he was offered 50 pounds for $7,000 he jumped at th "bargain," thinking he had made a rare good buy. He cautiously assayed the offering. It assayed like gold, so he bought it. Later It struck him ns being strange that the gold was In the form of a brick, and he decided to melt it. Alas, for the bargain ! The nice shiny gold plating ran off, leaving leav-ing brass beneath. The next time that assayer Is offered of-fered a gold brick for sale, he will not decide that no swindler would be foolish enough to sell near-gold 10 nn expert assayer, nor will he purcliu.se j before he has made sure that he aa-! aa-! sayed deep enough. Detective Story I Magazine. |