How To Use Shinplaster In A Sentence
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This promise was printed prominently on the face of shinplasters to inspire trust and acceptance.
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The war had by this time produced two comparatively new industries. One was the issuing of "shinplaster" currency, and the other was the manufacture of fruit brandy.
The end of an era,
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Today the postage stamp province has become the shinplaster province, almost dollar bill in her new size.
The Span of a Canadian Generation
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North American evergreen with small pinkish bell - shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters.
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Marse Adam pull out a big flat black pocket-book and gived me a shinplaster, and say: 'Jesse, ever time your basket h'ist de beam of de steelyards to 100, you gits a shinplaster.'
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4
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Once again Texans used bank notes from other states and shinplasters instead of the Texas money.
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It is ‘faith’ and ‘law,’ which give the shinplasters of today, purchasing power.
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The bit of harbour shinplaster that Monrova had left over from his purchase was used to stock the galley with fruits and vegetables and cooking supplies and vodka.
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It's healthy and it's moral, and it's goin 'to make Omyha look like a shinplaster.
Desert Dust
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And the problem had nothing to do with any of the myriad of shinplaster grotesqueries we have come to expect from the Department of Homeland Security.
Thomas Lipscomb: The Trouser Bomber Effect: Watching Government Cure Incompetence with Idiocy
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The men when gambling rarely spread out the shinplasters thrown on to the table, and the dummy was accepted in play.
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A New York paper states that a Brooklyn lady purchased an article in Fulton-street the other day, when she received the following as change for a one-dollar bill: — Ferry tickets, shinplaster, counterfeit penny, car ticket, milk ticket, butcher's IOU, grocer's IOU, bread ticket, three cent postage-stamp, one cent postage-stamp, and ice-cream ticket.
A New York Paper
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So he set to work and issued a large amount of these little shinplasters, and at first redeemed them for a while until he had got some thousands of dollars issued.
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Here is the hard face of Big Business scowling at its desk; and here the glittering Heroine of the hour in her dress of shimmering sequins, making such tepid creatures as Madeline and Kate look like the small change out of a twenty-five cent shinplaster.
The Hohenzollerns in America
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By reason of this traffic more or less currency of the "shinplaster" kind was in circulation, besides some of the prisoners had money concealed on their persons when captured or had friends on the outside who managed to give them some.
Two boys in the Civil War and after,
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So before you start hoarding your one-cent pieces, consider the plight of the last piece of widely used currency to be retired, the "shinplaster," a 25-cent note introduced in 1870 to help overcome a temporary shortage in silver coins.
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