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Show PENNY FAMINE IN NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK, Oct. 30. New York faces a famine in pennies and the shortage has proved so embarrassing to Martin Vogel, assistant treasurer of the United States, that ho Is considering consider-ing an appeal to tho city's children to empty their savings banks in order to increase tho number in circulation. Ordinarily the government carries ten million pennies in stock at tho sub-treasury in Wall street, but the institution is now swept clear of its last penny for the first time in the history of the institution. Banners explain that the sudden popularity of the penny has grown because be-cause of Increases in the prices of articles selling for odd cents. Cigars, milk and many other articles which used to be priced with tho nickel as the unit have been advanced bv a cent or two with the result that d'eal-ors' d'eal-ors' requirements for small change have been augmontcd. |