Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1910 — FRIGHTENED BY SMALL CHECK [ARTICLE]

FRIGHTENED BY SMALL CHECK

Shopkeepers in Long Island City Scared by Document Calling for Insignificant Sum. New York. —A check for one cent caused amusement in Long Island City. It had beeh drawn by John W. Penchon of the Title Guarantee and Trust company In favor of Ludvig Sikora, in payment of a balance due. Sikora. anxious to invest the proceeds in real estate, lost a day’s work trying to get the check cashed. Desperate at last, he offered it in exchange for an evening paper. The newsboy made a derisive gesture, the Long Island City equivalent of "No checks cashed here.” After an outlay on hospitality, Sikora persuaded a friend to run any risk there might fce in converting the paper into specie.