The line soon lived up to its name, as local messages of moderate length could be sent for a dime and the company was quickly able to declare very liberal dividends on its capital stock.

When he ran out of his own books, he read a dime store western that one of the thieves was carrying.

As a child, Porter was always reading, everything from classics to dime novels ; his favorite works were Lane's translation of One Thousand and One Nights, and Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy.

The Convent, built when Elizabeth considered becoming a nun, was one of the many religious buildings erected at her behest and on her ( the nation ’ s ) dime.

The popular culture impact of the frontier was enormous, in dime novels, Wild West shows, and, after 1910, Western movies set on the frontier.

As a whole, the quality of the fiction was derided by higher brow critics and the term ' dime novel ' quickly came to represent any form of cheap, sensational fiction, rather than the specific format.

Old Sleuth, appearing in The Fireside Companion story paper beginning in 1872, was the first dime novel detective and began the trend away from the western and frontier stories that dominated the story papers and dime novels up to that time.

William J. Benners was another of the early historians of the dime novel.

During this time, Ernie managed to see a lot of " Grade B " movies ( admission was only a dime ); many of them were the spark of his routines later on.

After walking into town, he sees that it apparently has not changed since he was a boy, including the drugstore with a soda fountain that still sells sodas for a dime, and whose proprietor ( whom Sloan remembers as having died ) is, unbeknownst to him, still alive.

Marmaduke was incorporated on August 2, 1909, and had expanded to a fair-sized town by 1914 with two drugstores, three banks, three restaurants, a Methodist and Baptist church, two barber shops, a hotel, a boarding house, and two " dime stores ".

Although poverty was rampant in the South, the citizenry responded by giving what they could, be it a nickel, a dime, a quarter, or a dollar.

The Star Theatre opened for business on November 9, 1938 with the western, Born to the West. The price of admission was 11 cents and a box of popcorn was a dime.

" The name " Niota " was based on the name of a fictional character in a dime novel, a Native American chief named " Nee-o-tah.

Although the term " dîme " comes from the Latin decima (" one tenth ", with the same origin as that of the U. S. coin, the dime ), the " dîme " rarely reached this percentage and ( on the whole ) it was closer to 1 / 13th of the agricultural production.

The name " Nickelodeon " was first used in 1888 by Austin's Nickelodeon, a dime museum located in Boston, Massachusetts.

Calloway's was one of the most popular American jazz bands of the 1930s, recording prolifically for Brunswick and the ARC dime store labels ( Banner, Cameo, Conqueror, Perfect, Melotone, Banner, Oriole, etc.

However, because many of Henderson's records ( Columbia, Brunswick, Vocalion, Victor and those issued on the many of the dime store labels ) still turn up at junk stores, flea markets, collectors stores and on eBay and on private record auctions, there's no denying how popular his band was, regardless of his management difficulties.

The magazine was printed on heavily coated paper that cost readers only a dime.

Grey was an avid reader of adventure stories ( Robinson Crusoe and Leatherstocking Tales ) and dime novels ( featuring Buffalo Bill and " Deadwood Dick ").

There was considerable discussion about what the coin should be called, with centum, decade, and dime being among the suggestions, before florin was eventually settled upon, partly because of its connection with old English coinage, and partly because other European countries also had coins of approximately the same size and weight called florins.

In 1931 the label was acquired by the American Record Corporation and continued by them through 1938, when all of the ARC dime store labels ( Perfect, Melotone, Banner, and Oriole ) were discontinued.

" Pablo Picasso experimented with classicizing motifs in the years immediately following World War I, and the Art Deco style that came to the fore following the 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Décoratifs, often drew on neoclassical motifs without expressing them overtly: severe, blocky commodes by E. J. Ruhlmann or Sue et Mare ; crisp, extremely low-relief friezes of damsels and gazelles in every medium ; fashionable dresses that were draped or cut on the bias to recreate Grecian lines ; the art dance of Isadora Duncan ; the Streamline Moderne styling of US post offices and county court buildings built as late as 1950 ; and the Roosevelt dime.

He began the first campaign on his own radio show in January 1938, asking people to mail a dime to the nation's most famous assumed polio victim, President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Soon after the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, legislation was introduced by Virginia Congressman Ralph H. Daughton that called for the replacement of the Mercury dime with one bearing Roosevelt's image.

Due to the limited amount of time available to design the new coin, the Roosevelt dime was the first regular-issue U. S. coin designed by a Mint employee in more than 40 years.

Since 1946 the Roosevelt dime has been minted every year.

More than 2 billion Mercury dimes were minted before it was replaced by the Dime ( United States coin ) | Roosevelt dime in1946.

An unusual coinage from this mint occurred in 1996 when a commemorative Roosevelt dime was produced for the 50th anniversary of this design.

It is nearly identical in size to the American dime, but unlike its counterpart, the Canadian dime is magnetic due to a distinct metal composition: from 1968-99 it was composed entirely of nickel, and since 2000 it has had a high steel content.

It is generally recommended to keep the cake at approximately the thickness of a U. S. dime ( about 1 / 20th of an inch or 1. 5 mm ), though sometimes the cake is removed entirely as part of efforts to eliminate flavors or aromas.

In an editorial, the National Post called for both the City of Toronto and Corporate sponsors to halt all funding to Pride Week, arguing that: " Anti-Israel bigots are free to have their own parade – but not on the public dime.

One of the largest customers of Borough National is Winterchem, but because of federal lending limits, the bank " can't loan them a dime " but conceivably could be involved in brokering a deal between Winterchem and some other lender capable of loaning the approximately $ 500 million needed to buy the plant, and the bank would receive a 1 % finder's fee for making the arrangement.

The public had been urged to send in a dime to the Foundation, and by Roosevelt's death, the Foundation was already popularly known as the " March of Dimes.

She'd say she didn't feel good on Sunday, couldn't go to church -- there'd be a little argument, but she could be stubborn -- and when the old woman had gone, quick pack the things she'd need to take, all but the dress she'd wear Monday, and take the bag down to that place in the station where you could put things in a locker overnight, for a dime.

The world's smallest known vertebrate, Paedophryne amauensis, sitting on a Dime ( United States coin ) | U. S. dime, 17. 91mm, for scale

Finch egg next to United States | American Dime ( United States coin ) | dime for size comparison

More conventionally named roadie Jack Slaughter and road manager Dylan Ferrero rounded out the crew and provided most of the driving of the " tour bus ", a Cadillac with 10-year-old expired license plates and a nasty predilection for going into a coma at the most inconvenient moment ( but, according to Friedman, her talent lay in her ability to stop on a dime and pick up the change ).

Nuvistor with U. S. dime for scale

While the steam-powered printing press had been in widespread use for some time, enabling the boom in dime novels, prior to Munsey, no one had combined cheap printing, cheap paper and cheap authors in a package that provided affordable entertainment to working-class people.

In the main, during November, 1926 and 1930, he recorded concurrently for Brunswick-Vocalion, OKeh, and Victor, along with a handful of sessions for Columbia and the dime store labels ( Cameo, Lincoln, Romeo, Perfect ).

As a child, she wrote insults for children to use on one another, for the cost of a dime.

A handful of circuses regularly toured the country ; dime museums appealed to the curious ; amusement parks, riverboats, and town halls often featured " cleaner " presentations of variety entertainment ; and saloons, music halls and burlesque houses catered to those with a taste for the risqué.

Dime novel, though it has a specific meaning, has also become a catch-all term for several different ( but related ) forms of late 19th-century and early 20th-century U. S. popular fiction, including “ true ” dime novels, story papers, five-and ten-cent weekly libraries, " thick book " reprints, and sometimes even early pulp magazines.

This made it hard to define what falls within the definition of a true dime novel, with the division depending on format, price, or style of material for the classification.

As noted, much of the material for the dime novels came from the story papers, which were weekly, eight page newspaper-like publications, varying in size from tabloid to a full fledged newspaper format, and usually costing five or six cents.

And he also is responsible for the popularity of the use of the word “ old ” in the names of competing dime novel detectives, such as Old Cap Collier, Old Broadbrim, Old King Brady, Old Lightning, Old Ferret and many, many others.

Ironically, for many years it has been the nickel weeklies that most people refer to when using the term " dime novel.

Magica and Negaduck had contempt for each other, which they kept hidden behind a ' friendly ' facade ; early on, Negaduck sarcastically refers to his desire for a city and hers for "... one dime " as being " similar ambitions ".

Based on the advice Scrooge gives her in exchange for his dime back, Magica steals Flintheart's first rand.

In reality, Scrooge's father, Fergus McDuck, gave Burt the dime specifically for paying Scrooge for his services.

In an 1884 book written by dime novelist and non-fiction author Edward S. Ellis, Crockett is recorded as giving a speech ( the " Not Yours to Give " speech ) critical of his Congressional colleagues who were willing to spend taxpayer dollars to help a widow of a US Navy man who had lived beyond his naval service, but would not contribute their own salary for a week to the cause.