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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1934
Page
8
President F M Law of the American Bankers Association argues that liquidity and cautious lending will guide banks back to normal credit. He cites improved bank conditions, lower failures, and a regained public confidence as catalysts for renewed plans by business leaders and borrowers.
The American Bankers Association has run Standard courses taught by experienced teachers under the American Institute of Banking. With over two hundred local banking schools nationwide, thousands of future bankers are graduated yearly, learning banking practices and business ethics. A central graduate school is proposed for selective standard course alumni.
Banks and trust companies have repaid the majority of Reconstruction Finance Corp loans since 1932. Loans to 7,080 banks totaled 31.995 billion, with 1.553 billion advances. repayments through April 30, 1934 reached 9.25 billion, about 60 percent, far above the 37 percent for all borrowers. Observers view this as a strong sign of returning normal financial conditions.
Since 1928 the Bankers Finance Scholarships Foundation for Education for Economics has awarded 354 college loan scholarships. Total loans repaid amount to $262,000 with $86,900 outstanding. The foundation’s tonal investments total $540,000.
The passage warns against exposing youth to excessive skepticism at college and notes that a reserved aloof man may be so. It advises limiting shared clippings to three lines to avoid overlong readings.
I day coach tickets priced at 315 with 30 day tickets good to sleeping cars on payment of usual Pullman fare 625 half fare for children. Includes Tex service hotel accommodations admission to the Fair Grounds and more. Tickets available at home station as Burlington promotes its world finest passenger train with comfortable seats and reading material for a pleasant stay.
A collection of wry thoughts on ambition time youth and daily habits. The narrator muses on writers stalling in careers boys misplacing stoves and the ironic comforts of sleep and light. The piece threads playful anecdotes from school days to shared urban quirks about rain umbrellas and electric wires.
A column presents curious claims: house flies vibrate about 330 times per second, spaghetti predates Italy’s modern era, a man could reach the moon in ten hops if scaled to a flea, boas nest in thatched huts to hunt rodents, ships must carry storm oil for rough seas, and 23 percent of major shipping disasters involve collisions, with related loss of life.
A dialogue recalls an explorer convincing a companion to bear Arctic hardships by claiming the North pole was a chicken roost. The remark highlights a humorous prevarication used to motivate endurance.
A Kentucky revivalist has back covered with favorite texts from the Bible while a Brooklyn baker uses a short wave radio beat to bake crustless bread. A Valencia court known as Tribunal of the Waters meets weekly for 072 years. The James River holds the only known specimens of a fish lacking an air bladder. Medieval romance influenced laws and deeds to be written in verse form.
A quoted exchange argues the subject did the construction work while alleging that plans and specifications were prepared by a monkey. The remark contrasts self praise with criticism of alleged design authorship.
Jones claims he never denies his wife a wish and that permitting her desires costs nothing. Smith counters that generosity must be weighed against affordability while Jones insists the wife’s wishes should be granted without regard to expense.
Ford Motor Company presents a grand transportation exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair opening May 26. The display chronicles transport from ancient times, features Henry Ford's farmer solution, and spans 84 miles of free exhibits. The fair touts comfort, low railroad and bus rates, and affordable lodging to attract visitors.
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