The Auction Laughed at the $65 He Paid for a Seized Cash Register — Then the Drawer Finally Gave

Iron Hook Stories

The auctioneer brought the gavel down at sixty-five dollars on a cold March morning, and the biggest salvage dealer in the county laughed out loud at the quiet man who bought a fire-seized antique cash register nobody else would touch. It came out of the Halvorsen mercantile after the fire — a heav