Too Many Bad Checks in North Carolina, Aug. 4, 1925

Many of the Checks Now Being Held by Business Men of the State Are Nothing More than Worthless Paper. . . Recently a Prominent Durham Business Man Cashed a Check for a Brazen Fellow Who Signed His Name “U.R. Stung”—An Unusual Name. . . New Law Will be Enforced. . . Only the Co-Operative System Will be Effective Against the Evil

This paper has frequently referred to the condition of affairs in North Carolina relative to the number of worthless checks that are being cashed by the business men of the state. In nearly every town and city there are hundreds of worthless checks held by merchants and others that could have been prevented.

This paper is ready and willing to exercise every influence that will help our customers. Our advertisers have suffered greatly from this nuisance, and we want to do all that we can to assist them in this terrible loss.

On another page we are publishing full information in regard to the law governing the giving of checks that are worthless and where no funds are held in the bank. This is done for the benefit of the general public, and the space is donated by the paper. The signer of a worthless check will have not excuse for violating the law, and the business man who cashes a “bad” check will have no one to blame but himself. . . . .

From the front page of The Carolina Jeffersonian, Durham, N.C., Aug. 4, 1925

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