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Show U. S. Asked to Redeem $2,000 Banknote Quilt White Hall, III A $2,000 quilt, literallv, because it was made of United' States banknotes, has been sent to Washington in an attempt to get It exchanged for that much spendable currency. Whether it will be worth anything any-thing at ail was a question, because be-cause the eccentric spinster, Miss Mary Booth, seventy years old, who made It, clipped the bills into a variety va-riety of shapes to fit into patterns and threw the remnants away. She then pasted the parts of the bills, most of them containing only the portraits of various Presidents, upon a sheet and hid it. Miss Booth once lost a considerable sum In a bank failure and explained that she made the quilt to keep the rest of her money safe. |