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Show Two-Dollar Bill Called "Just Darned Nuisance" The idea that there is something unlucky about the $2 bill so that many persons tear the corners off them to avert misfortune occasionally occasional-ly arouses curiosity. A number of our readers have written writ-ten In with suggestions to account for the belief In the unlucklness of this particular note. One, however, a merchant In Pennsylvania, says from his experience as a retailer that "there Is no question of superstition In connection with the $2 bill, It Is Just a darned nuisance. "There Is no compartment provided In our cash register for them," he writes, "and when we are handed one by a customer we have to secrete it away somewhere until we ' get a chance to pass It on to the bank. We can't very well hand It out to another customer for change, that Is If we want to retain their good will. "The only possible use it has Is when some one purchases a 2-cent stamp and hands us a $20 bill tn payment. pay-ment. Then we can get hack at hlra by unloading all the $2 bills we have on hand." Literary Digest. |