FINGERPRINT CHEQUES.
NEW RULE FOR .SIGNING IX BANKS.. "Your fingerprint, please." is the novel i demand now being made by clerks in increasing numbers in New York banks or all ladies and gentlemen desirous ot caching cheques. The customer is given an ink pad and a card. On this he or she is director! t>' place three fingers and the first joint_ or each thumb. The clerk compares the impressions with records in the cashiers office, and pfe&ehta the customer with a little bottle of spirits of turpentine and a. piece of cotton wool for the removal ot the ink stains. Only after this ordeal has been successfully accomplished may iha J customer receive cash for his or h?r cheque. The Williamsburg Savings Bank was the first institution to adopt the system. Other banks, finding that it entailed, much delay, appointed a special clerk, whose dutv it is to ]*ersuadn ladies to remove their gloves and to submit to the inky operation.
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Evening Star, Issue 14932, 19 July 1912, Page 3
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162FINGERPRINT CHEQUES. Evening Star, Issue 14932, 19 July 1912, Page 3
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