Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1916 — $64,000 FOR PANAMA HAT [ARTICLE]

$64,000 FOR PANAMA HAT

Prices Paid in the City of Mexico in Carranza Currency for Summer Covering. St. Louis.—Honestly now, how would you like to fork over $6,500 for a suit of clothes? Shell out $64,000 for a" Panama hat? * ; 7 , . Dig $2,000 just to have your trunk moved? These are prices and charges they hurl at you down in the City of Mexico when you try to use Carranza currency as a medium of exchange. Thomas Randolph, chairman, of the board, National Bank of Commerce. Is ntfthority for the statement that these prices really exist, the information having been sent him In ft letter he received from a friend in Brownsville, Tex. It is presumed stores do not want Carranza currency and have pamed the high prices to stimulate the flow of United States gold and currency.