There are people who buy and sell tattered Superman comics and old telephones, but the citizens of Grafton, Iowa (pop. 254), are learning that fortunes can be made out of empty beer cans. The town fathers celebrated Grafton's centennial last month by ordering up 48,000 cans of "Hundertjahriges Jubilaum Beer" (the town has a lot of German descendants) from a Minnesota brewer. They ordered another 12,000 empty cans as souvenirs. The beer has done a brisk business at $1 per can, but the empties, at the same price, have done even better, thanks to ads placed...
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