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Show Recalling Early Days of American Currency An Innocent dog played his part in the creation of our oldest American bank, says Girard In tlie Philadelphia Inquirer. When Continental money was not worth a "Continental d n," Philadelphia staged a financial frolic. A big dog was covered with tar and then plastered over with Continental dollar bills. With drum and fife and flying flags that dog was marched down Chestnut street and around the center of the city by a shouting gang of men and boys. Five clays later came Robert Morris' plan for a permanent per-manent bnnk to replace the old Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania bank, which had done its work nnd was soon to quit. Less honor is given to that temporary tem-porary bank than its record merits. One tiling It did was to buy 3,000,000 rations for Washington's soldiers. Another, An-other, possibly less worthy object, was the'purchase for them of 300 barrels bar-rels of rum. |