Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1890 — G. A. R. Buttons Fraudulently Worn. [ARTICLE]

G. A. R. Buttons Fraudulently Worn.

People who have noticed the little bronze buttons on the- lapels of the coats of gentlemen they meet commonly suppose that wearers .of the buttons are members of the Grand Army of the Republic. Tae bronze button ought not to be worn by any one else, and the Grand Arnxy as a body does everything reasonable to keep the buttons out of the possession of those not entitled to them. Recently a man wrote to the N. Y. Sun to say that these buttons could be had by any one willing to buy al the pawnshops of New York and Brooklyn. A Sun reporter went tu hajf a dozen New York pawnshops and was unable to buy one. At the pawnbroker’s at Brooklyn end of the bridge and at one Bowery shop he wav told that they sometimes had them on sale. Comrades got hard up and pawned them and failed to redeem them. The price charged by the brokers having them for sale they said was twenty-live cents.