Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1920 — MARK WORTHLESS IN BERLIN [ARTICLE]

MARK WORTHLESS IN BERLIN

Jewelry Merchants Close Their Shops In Money Panic. Berlin, Jan. 30. —All the leading Berlin jewelers closed their doors and one refused to sell diamonds, precious stones and jewelry of all kinds for German money, whicl| is almost worthless. The action is the first visible effect of the tremendous drop In German exchange in neutral countries. Before the jewelry shops had become awarb of what had happened they were suddenly swamped with buyers who purehased diamonds, pearl, silver and gold plate, paying any price demanded. Dutch, Swiss and Americans were heavy buyers.