Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1887 — Some Notable Checks. [ARTICLE]

Some Notable Checks.

When Jay Gould scribbled off a check for a million and a half dollars to pay Tom Allen for the Iron Mountain Boad it was thought to be the largest individual check ever written. Gould wrote it on a sheet of note paper. John B. Alley once dashed off a check for $400,000 and gave it to Senator Dorsey for a half interest in the Senator’s cattle r anch. There are several United States Government checks fofone cent, to square up accounts, in existence.— New York Sun. Never sport with pain or poverty.

• * * * Delicate diseases of either sex, however induced, speedily and permanently cured. Book 10 epnta in stamps. World’s Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Main street, Buffalo, N. Y. A glance at the plumber's bill is sufficient to satisfy one that they who do hot dance are sometimes compelled to pay the piper. •