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Show ONE IS BORN EACH MINUTE Here Is Gold Assayer Who Bought "Gold Brick" Believing It to Be the Real Thiny. 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 ofTered SO pounds for $7,000 he Jumped at the "bargain, thinking he had made a rare good buy. lie cautiously assayed the offering. It assayed like gold, so he bought It. Later It struck him as being strange that the gold was in the form of a brick, and he decided to aielt It Alas, for the bargain I The nice shiny gold plating run off, leaving leav-ing brass beneath. The next time that assayer is of-ared of-ared a gold brick for sale, he will sot decide that no swindler would be foolihh enough to sell near gold to an expert assayer, nor will he purchase before he has made sure that he assayed as-sayed deep enough. Detective Story Magazine. |