Show Recalling Early Days I of American Currency An innocent dog pla played ed his part In Inthe Inthe inthe the creation of our oldest American bank sn says s 's GIrard In the Philadelphia Inquirer When Continental money moner was not worth a Continental n tl-n d n Philadelphia stilled staged a financial frolic frolic I A big cIa dog was covered with tar and then plastered over o with Continental I dollar bills With drum and fife and tl flying flags that dog was marched down Chestnut street and around the center of the city by a n shouting gang an of men and boys Five e days litter lifter came Robert Kobert Morris Morris' plan for a n permanent permanent per per- manent bank to replace the old Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania bank which had done Its Us work and was soon to quit I Less honor Is given gi to that temporary temporary tem tern I bank than Its record merits One thing It did was to buy r rations for tor Washington's soldiers AnoUal Another Another An An- other oUal possibly less worthy object was the purchase for them of barrels barrels barrels bar bar- of rum |