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    John Jones's Dollar
    John Jones's Dollar
    John Jones's Dollar
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    John Jones's Dollar

    By Harry Stephen Keeler

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      John Jones's Dollar - Harry Stephen Keeler

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      Title: John Jones's Dollar

      Author: Harry Stephen Keeler

      Release Date: October 10, 2008 [EBook #26867]

      Language: English

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      JOHN JONES'S DOLLAR

      By HARRY STEPHEN KEELER

      Take a board with 64 squares on it. Put a grain of wheat on the first square—two on the second—four on the third. Keep doubling in this manner and you will find there isn't enough wheat in the world to fill the sixty-fourth square. It can be the same with compound interest.

      On the 201st day of the year 3221 A.D., the professor of history at the University of Terra seated himself in front of the Visaphone and prepared to deliver the daily lecture to his class, the members of which resided in different portions of the earth.

      The instrument before which he seated himself was very like a great window sash, on account of the fact that there were three or four hundred frosted glass squares visible. In a space at the center, not occupied by any of these glass squares, was a dark oblong area and a ledge holding a piece of chalk. And above the area was a huge brass cylinder; toward this brass cylinder the professor would soon direct his subsequent remarks.

      In order to assure himself that it was time to press the button which would notify the members of the class in history to approach their local Visaphones, the professor withdrew from his vest pocket a small contrivance which he held to his ear. Upon moving a tiny switch attached to the instrument, a

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