[PRCo] Re: Lincoln

[Schneider Fred]

But if we work on the assumption that we move the decimal one place  
for every 50 years, a penny equals a dime in 50 years, a dollar in  
100 years, ten dollars in 150 years.    Three pennies in 1830 might  
be about $40 today.   Is that worth returning?   Is that a  
significant error?  A penny today probably isn't worth hurting my  
back to bend over and pick up off the sidewalk.   But if I see four  
$10 bills laying on the sidewalk, I'm going to bend over.

Judge history not by today but by what was acceptable then!


On Feb 13, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Phillip Clark Campbell wrote:

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>> From: Dennis Fred Cramer <trombone at windstream.net>
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:11:38 AM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Lincoln
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>> I spent my entire career attempting to tell the truth and
>> encouraging others to do what they could to help the
>> world become a better place.
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>> The wonderful thing about music is parts of it are incredibly
>> absolute and the other is incredibly indescribable.
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>> No matter how much I love music, I taught people first, not music.
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>> Dennis F. Cramer
>>       Trombone
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> I hope you are able to see some of the fruits of your labor;
> generations could be blessed because of your efforts.
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> Could you please recommend some reading on Lincoln?
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> Also, using the transit reminder concerning rules:
> 'Lest We Forget'  --  would you please share some of the
> other information you have learned about Lincoln?
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> I have always remembered the story of Lincoln receiving too
> much change for a purchase and walking several miles to return
> some pennies.  I often hear people today saying that it was the
> clerk's mistake and thus their loss.  Dead wrong isn't it.
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> Phil
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