Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1899 — Want Aluminum in Pennies. [ARTICLE]

Want Aluminum in Pennies.

The wholesale confectioners of the country, or at least a large part of them, held a convention in Buffalo recently. One of their acts, or perhaps It was a resolution, calls upon the Government to abandon the use of copper in the manufacture of cents and substitute therefore aluminum. The reason given is that when children are given pennies with which to. buy candy they put them in tbeir mouth and are poisoned thereby. The poison is then attributed to the can* dies and the confectioner is blamed unjusUy with selling impure goods.