1905 New Money Order Form. Postoffice Department Puts an End to a Scheme to Defraud. Under a new ruling of the postoffice department each day is expected to bring to the Carthage postoffice some of a new form of money orders. These new form of orders are something like those in use ten or fifteen years ago, and were necessitated by the growing frauds perpetrated by those who secured orders for small amounts and afterwards raised them by a secret process. The order for the substitution of the new became effective November 15, but the supply of old money order blanks will be used by the clerks everywhere until the new ones are secured. Of late months a plan to defraud has been generally worked all over the country. A money order for 25 cents or 30 cents would be purchases, payable to a postoffice in a distant state. Later the order would show up for payment in an entirely different place, the amount raised to $50 the name of the paying station and the payee changed. The operators would exchange the order for a small purchase of merchandise, receiving the balance in cash, and leaving the merchant to stand the loss. It was the desire to prevent such frauds and protect the merchants, the new order was designed. In appearance it is much different from the one now in use. On the left hand side is a line of figures showing the amount of the order, in dollars, but not the fractions thereof. When the order is issued it is torn off with a steel, denoting the nearest amount in even dollars to the sum named in the order. The street address of the payee is also placed on the face of the order, as an aid to identification.
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