AMERICAN ITEMS.
BURNS’ CLAIM
INSCRIBED IN COPY OF POEM r
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
NEW YORK, January 8
A fund of 2,‘1.500 dollars was given bv the Rosenhaeh Company at a booksale for the second edition of Burns’ poems, eh icily in the .Scottish dialed. The chief importance of the hook lies in an inscription to “ John W. Hyphen Mnrdo Esquire,” in which the author notes that
“ The one holiest virtue to -which few poels can pretend, and 1 trust I shall ever claim as mine—to no man whatever his. station in lile or hi> power to serve me have I-ever paid a compliment at the expense of truth.” WORLD’S CREDITOR. WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. The United States Department of Commerce announced that foreign securities floated in the United States in ]928 totalled 1,43(1.000,000 dollars; Germany with 290,000,000 being the greatest borrower, abd Canada second with 240,000.000. American in vestmens abroad total fouffccei# thousand million, excluding war debus.-
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1929, Page 5
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158AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1929, Page 5
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