Citizens Stand For This In Our School House
A citizen urges residents to oppose youths using the school house for immoral acts such as dice shooting. He questions the superintendent and teachers about allowing such behavior and asks if the town will permit practices that conflict with the school's founding principles of love and righteousness.
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Device Reads Pulse with Galvanometer Invention
A French scientist unveils a galvanometer based device to measure vibrations in bones and tissues. The apparatus is claimed to read a person s pulse more accurately than hand methods, promising improved medical assessment.
Woman’s Backache Healed by Dean’s Kidney Pills
Georgetown woman Mrs. J. E. Branham testifies she suffered four years with back pain kidney trouble headaches and dizziness. After using Dean’s Kidney Pills as prescribed she recovered after five boxes and remains well. 60c at dealers FosterMilburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Buffalo, N. Y
Nation to Observe Big Week National Thrift Week plans announced
Treasury Department outlines a nationwide observance from January 17 to 24 1920 to promote saving and sound investment. The schedule includes Thrift Day Thrift Sunday Life Insurance Day Own Your Own Home Day Make Will Day Thrift in Industry Day Family Budget Day Pay Your Bills Day and aims to improve individual welfare and national prosperity through disciplined financial habits.
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United States Treasury
Washington
National Life Insurance
Many Lost Fortune Trying to Get Rich
The piece cites widespread losses from market slump as many speculators were caught by margin calls. It warns against get rich quick schemes and praises government securities Liberty Bonds Victory Notes and War Savings Stamps as safe hold to maturity with guaranteed value.
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New York
Etting
Wall Street
Treasury
Millions Saved by Small Deposits, Bankers Say
Figures from the American Bankers Association show 27,000,000 U S savers with small means who bought government securities. Thrift and War Savings stamps and Liberty Bonds boosted deposits, financed war, and now support reconstruction and production as a safe, convertible investment for all amounts.
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King Albert Receives Thrift Stamp During San Francisco Visit
In San Francisco a young boy named Richard liprelie aged eleven rushed to sell a United States Thrift Stamp to King Albert of Belgium after an official reception. The king accepted the stamp with a gracious smile and thanked the boy before departing for his car.
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Charge of the Stamp Brigade War Savings Stamp Ballad
A poem praising citizens saving with War Savings Stamps. It likens purchases to a charge against high costs and bills, urging continued saving until a hundred stamps are bought, and ends with a rallying call to fight the stamps with more stamps by the hundred.
Armistice Hint Warns Against Wildcat Stock Speculation
Editorial warns that while the armistice removed U boats the danger of risky investments remains. It urges focus on government securities War Savings Stamps and Liberty Bonds as safer financial choices.
Pays to Be Straight in Life and Finances
Grit urges men to meet their obligations and pay bills as a life creed. The piece argues that honest repayment builds integrity, steadies steps, and avoids shame, even if others do not, noting the burden of living up to ideals becomes satisfying when conscience approves.
Great Pile of Sweetredés Baked for Frederick William I
The largest loaf ever baked for Frederick William I of Prussia stretched eighteen yards long eight yards wide and one and one half feet thick. It stood as a legendary confectionary feat in royal food displays.
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Frederick William I
Prussia
Forty as a Narrative Motif in Fact and Fiction
The piece notes that forty is not a magic number like three or seven nor nine’s famed properties. It discusses its recurring use in fact and fiction, suggesting no mathematical basis and proposing origin in a striking incident that sparked curiosity.
Kind of Horse He Wanted
Billy admires Charlie's rocking horse and begs his mother to buy him one. He explains he wants a horse that keeps going and never gets anywhere.
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