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Show oo MINTING SILVER AT RAPID RATE Five to Eight Times the Volume Vol-ume of Past Years Being Be-ing Handled. WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. Minting silver coins is proceeding at every mint in the country at from five to eight times the volume of past years, according to announcement today by Director Baker of the mint, who has just returned to Washington from an Inspection tour of the mints in the west. The chief demand is for quarters quar-ters and dimes. Forces at several of the mints probably will be augmented soon and may go on longer hours to meet the demand. Coinage of gold has been discontinued discontin-ued temporarily in order to permit the mints to devote all their energies to coining silver. oo A Now York railway now boasts of a woman "flagman." |