The bank held the town government responsible for paying the debt and it took them literal decades to pay it off from tax revenue They put the marker up in like the 1930s after they made the last payment (in the middle of the fucking Depression)
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It’s made even funnier by the fact that the form of address below would be “[first] lieutenant”… which is the naval rank equivalent of an army or USMC captain!
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Cue that old joke about a junior officer who keeps accidentally referring to a USMC O-6 as "Captain" rather than "Colonel" (an insulting demotion to O-3 for a Marine) and finally says in exasperation "I'm sorry, sir, but if you were in the Navy you'd be a Captain"
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"No, son, if I were in the Navy I'd be an Admiral"
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