Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 5, Hammond, Lake County, 22 June 1906 — Page 5
FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1906
THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES PAGE FIVE
THE FOURTH OF JULY
REAL ESTATE
is not far away but we expect to do business in our new building at 98 State Street by that time. We will have the LARGEST and most UP-TO-Drug Store in this part of the State Remember 98 will be our new location just opour present location.
JOS. W. WEIS, The Druggist 101 State Street.
To reduce our stock we offer all trimmed and untrimmed hats at ONE-HALF PRICE. Our summer goods are all fresh and new and strictly the Best Styles. We solicit your inspection. Bloomhoff & Co.
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HAMMOND IND. Capital $100,000. Your Bank account is not too large. "Neither is it too small for the CITIZENS GERMAN NATIONAL BANK to handle. We solicit the same on the most liberal terms consistent with good Banking. 3 per cent interest paid on time certificates of deposits. Same issued from $1.00 up. Drafts to all parts of the World sold. O O SMITH Pres W D WEIS M D Vice Pres GEO M EDER Cashier E S EMERINE Ass't Cashier DIRECTORS
CHAS SMITH C H FRIEDRICH J C BECKER
WM D WEIS HERMAN SCHREIBER H M PLASTER
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TRANSFER
A list of transfers of real estate furnished daily by the Lake County Title and Guaranty Company. Abstractors Crown Point and Hammond, Indiana. Thomas Hammond to August Tolzlot 23, block 4, (except south 10 feet, Fogg & Hammond's addiHammond. Thomas Hammond to Herman Schreiber, part lot 48 and all of lot 49, Fogg & Hammond's addiHammond 337.50 Chester B. Masslich to Nic Kalh, part lot 27, Riverside addition, Ham755.1 Richard Zimmerman to Joseph W. Weis, part lot 2 and all of lot 3, original town, Hammond. 1.00 Silas Meehan to Louise Stieglitz, lo 5 and 6, Steiglitz park. Whiting. 1.00 Weromka Zurawski to Michael Kokolot 3. block 14, second addiIndiana Harbor. 275.00 Stanistaw Galas to Joseph Bernal, lot 10, block 23, sw. 1/4 section 29,37,9, East Chicago. 830.00 Clarence D. Moon and William F. Hale to Lake Co. Ice & Cold StorCo. part block 1, se. 1/4 section 29,37,9 East Chicago. 2000.00 Julius Thomsen to Amalia Schloesw. 1/2 of w. 1/2 and strip 591.1 feet wide off w. side lot 3, section 17,36,8 2000.00 Henry Hopp to Wm. Hattendorf, lots 43 to 48, block 22, manufacturing add, Hammond 25.00 Susan H. Triple to John B. Peterson, part ne. 1/4 of sw. 1/4 section, 8,34,8 Crown Point. 400.00 Albert De W. Erskine to J. A. Antis, lot 6, block 44, Indiana Harbor. 1.00 Besides the foregoing transfers, there have been filed for record with the recorder of Lake county, Ind. 3 mortgages and 6 miscellaneous in-
SPORTING
NOTES.
"Shanty" Meats, who is one of the best base ball players that Hammond has graduated from its vacant lot diamonds, has joined the Danville team of the Kittie League. Mears started on his out of town base ball career as a pitcher for the Wabash college nine..
SCORES AT BASE BALL
Chicago, June 22.-Following are the base ball scores: League: At Boston-Chicago 1, Bos10; at Philadelphia-St. Louis 2, Philadelphia 3; at New York-Pitts-4, New York 5. American: At Washington-Phila-1, Washington 1-seven innings, rain: at Detroit-Cleveland 9, Detroit 0; (second game) Cleveland 3, Detroit 2-ten innings. Association: At Louisvilie-Colum-3, Louisville 5-eleven innings; at Toledo-Indianapolis 3, Toledo; at
Milwaukee-Minneapolis 7, Milwau5. Western: At Omaha-Sioux City 0. Omaha. 5; at Lincoln-Pueblo O, Lin10; at Des Moines-Denver 4, Des Moines 5.
ample. That is the rarest American, coin. You would naturally suppose that there would be many attempts to counterfeit this dollar, for it is worth from $1,000 up. There has never been a single attempt to counterfeit this famous coin, but a number of coins have been turned out with the date altered. "The design of the 1804 dollar is the same to all practical purposes as that of the year preceding it and in fact as far back as 1798. The silver dollars of 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 and 1804 are all supposed to be alike, with the exception of the date, and they do look as much alike as two peas to the novice. Yet the die makers each year have left trifling differences that make the variety and the year of issue as clear as daylight. "In almost every case when attempts have been made to imitate the 1804 date the dollar of 1801 has been used, a specimen of which is only worth a couple of dollars. To all appearances an 1801 dollar is precisely like the 1804 coin, with the trifling difference in date, and thus the person making the alterations seems to think he has nothing to do but simply change the 1 into a 4. Yet the reverse of the 1801 dollar bears little variations that show the year in which it was struck "Plausible tales are nearly always
told by persons with such altered coins to sell. Not long ago a man came into my place from the far west. Out of a chamois bag which he carried around his neck he took two coins carefully wrapped in tissue paper. "Tenderly he laid the coins in my hand. He was not a coin collector, he said, but had heard that these two pieces were very valuable and had bought them at a low figure. "One of the coins was supposed to be an 1804 dollar and the other the rare 1853 half dollar, without the arrow points alongside of the date, which ought to have been worth from $75 to $100. They were certainly beauties.
both of them, and the old man told their history, which went something like this: "Back in the early forties a farm seeker, with his family and all his efin a prairie schooner, came to a halt at a ferry landing on the eastern side of a river in Kansas. The man
was at the end of his financial reand the only thing in the way of money he had left was a large silver dollar of 1804. "He persuaded the ferryman to take his outfit across in his flatboat and left with him this dollar, which the pioneer said was a rare one, worth $10 or $12 back in the states, and he made the ferryman promise to hold the coin until he called for it and paid the price of the ferriage. "The owner of the dollar never callAfter keeping the dollar for many years the ferryman died, and his son disposed of it to the present owner, who had picked it up for the bargain price of $300. The ferryman's son, who was a good natured fellow, gave the buyer as good measure the 1853 half dollar, which, he said, was also a rar coin. "Now, that was a very likely story and ought to sell any coin, but not here in the east. They were both very fine specimens, and they looked good to the eye, but they were both imitations and not worth any more than the metal of which they were made except as curi"The 1804 dollar was one altered from 1801, which a glance at the reshowed, although the substituted '4' would have given the thing away, for this last figure was raised very perhigher than the '180.' "As for the 1853 half dollar, it bore no arrow points on either side of the date, for the very simple reason that they had been rubbed away- The work been done very cleverly and thorOne would hardly suspect that
it had ever borne arrow heads, for there was no indication left to show
A Golden Opportunity
RARE COIN'S FORGED this but the industrious workman had forgotten to rub away the rays behind
THE COUNTERFEIT PIECES DO NOT FOOL THE EXPERTS.
Dates Are Changed and Mint Marks Are Imitated, bat There Are Always Little Thlngs That Reveal the Fraud-Even Cent Pieces Altered. Rare United States coins can't be
counterfeited so as to pass muster," said an old coin dealer emphatically. "There is no more chance of die makers being able to make an exact counterpart of a coin than there is to imisuccessfully the impression of a man's thumb. "That there are imitations is true enough, but they are clumsy. Most of them are simple alterations of date. They can be told at a glance by signs as unfailing as the sun. "While the coins of a series of years may seem at first glance to be all of one exact pattern, yet close observawill reveal distinct differences. No better illustration of this can be shown than the rare cent pieces of 1794. "Fifty-six distinct varieties of cents were issued in that year, and all of them closely resembled one another. Careful study enables experts to tell them apart. It was in this way that coin experts found that there were so many different dies made for the cent in l794, for the mint records make no mention of the fact. "The favorite coin with those who aldates is the rare 1799 cent, which is worth $200 and more if in uncircucondition. The 1798 cent is the issue that most closely resembles this cent, and this is the coin that is used for alteration. No collector should be
taken in by one of these altered specimens, for there were only two varieties of the 1790 cent, and each has marked differences from the coins of the previ
ous year.
The 1804 dollar is another, fine ex-
A chance for everyone to own a Home
he Hammond Realty Company will help you
WE are putting on the market seventy-five choice resilots in East Lawn and McHie's Subdivision and will sell you your choice of any of these lots (now unsold) at the unusually moderate price of $200 each, and what is more, we will loan to every person paying cash for his lot 75 per cent of the money required to build his home, at 6 per cent interest. All will be treated alike. First come first served. Do not neglect this opportunity. It may never be offered again.
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the eagle on the reverse of the coin. "There were two varieties of half dollars made in 1853. One, the comvariety, had arrow points on eiside of the date, while on the rerays shot out in all directions at the back of the eagle. The other vawhich is the valuable one, had neither rays nor arrows.
"Attempts have been made to imitate the cent of 1815. No cents were issued in that year, and yet I have
seen a dozen specimens bearing the date. "Now the latter day imitators have taken up the task of adding mint letters to certain coins to make them resemble rare varieties. The accumulation of coins bearing these mint marks is taking a good deal of the attention of collectors nowadays, and the imitators think they have an easy field, but their time is simply wasted, for their productions meet with no better success than the imitation of the earlier coins and can be singled out in a mo"The coin most often imitated is the half dollar of 1838, made at New OrThere were only twenty of these coined, and each one is worth from $75 to $100. To all appearances this coin is just the same as many others issued at other branch mints during the same year, with the excepof the tiny 'o' beneath the bust. "From time to time persons have taken an ordinary half dollar of this date and with infinite pains have supit with this mint letter. In the majority of cases the work has been
done so skillfully that the letter has every appearance of genuineness to the novice. But almost invariably the letter is located in a spot different from that occupied by the 'o' on the genuine coin. "Even if the imitator took care to place the mint letter in its proper pothere are other points of difference in the dies which reveal the fact that the coin has been tampered with." New York Sun.
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"Real Estate in all Its Branches." Spring has come. The coal trust is on the bum. The prospects for Hammond were never so bright Now is the time to buy yourself a home. We have houses and lots to suit the taste and purse of anyone Come now before the prices begin to climb. They are low now, but are bound to go up. We have a few bargains left but they will soon be gone. Don't delay. We List here a few of our Bargains New 7 room house with bath; brick foundation, pavement and brick sewer paid for. 50x150 ft lot, Calumet Ave., $2500 6 room house, full 7 ft basement, cement floor, bath, hot and cold water, gas for light and 50 ft lot, cement sidewalk, fine lawn, Summer street, $2100.00 25 ft lot on State street across from Carter's livery barn, at a very reasonable figure, $2,300. 9 room house, 50 ft lot, Murray street, $1400 4 room cottage, 50 ft lot, paved street, E. Sibley, $1100 6 room cottage, brick foundation, 37 1/2 ft lot, LaSalle St., $1,000 42 ft lot on State and State Line streets at a bargain. Fine two flat building 50 ft lot on Ogden street, $3600. New 8 room house on Manilla avenue, $2400 Michigan avenue, 8 rooms, $2100 4 room cottage, brick foundation, $700 5 room cottage, Chicago avenue, $1000, easy payments 9 room house, 50 ft lot, Sheffield Avenue, $2500.00 8 room house, 50 ft lot, Sheffield Avenue. $2000.00 4 room cottage, Oak street, north of Hoffman, 25 ft lot on easy payments, $750.00 7 room cottage on Truman near Oakley, 35 ft lot, $1400.00. The above are but a few of the bargains we offer. If yon wish to look into anything in the real estate line, not listed above, call on us or write us. We can suit you. Gostlin, Meyn & Co., "Real Estate in all its Branches.'