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Show MILLIONS LOST j ON HALF CENTS New Ycrk. August I. The coinage I of a two and a half-cent piece by (ho 1 United States government Is urged I In a statement given out here by Wll-i Wll-i I. am H. Short, a New York banker. v. ho declares that the use of such a coin would mean a saving of $39,(iini,. 000 yearly to consumers "The absence of such eoinauo." no : said, "has resulted in the universal j custom. el the sellers taking the half- j cent whenever' a. transaction "doc-; not, ; result in even money. 1 suppose It ' would bo a safe optima le to say that 1 each family loses the half-cent on an ! average of ten times a week. There j are about- 15,000.0(11) families in the United States, exclusive of the mer-j mer-j chants, and figuring on tbe basis men- ; tinned, they. .are. losers yearly from I ' this cause In. the approximate sum of $S9,00O.0J0.", |