Store Promise of Savings Account at Bank
If you deal at the store you will be enabled to open a savings account at the bank and make provision for a rainy day.
Cumberland Islander in Cumberland, British Columbia
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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jan 15, 1921
Page
2
Bank President Sees Cautious Banks Outlook
Sir Edmund Walker president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce urges thrift and prudence at the annual meeting. He notes strong profits but warns of lower world prices affecting farm goods and consumer spending while calling for reducing extravagance and debt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Edmund Walker
Canadian Bank of Commerce
Edmund
Britain Leads in Global Shipping Tonnage
Lloyds Register of Shipping reports Britain as of December 31, 1919 mid year had 8,759,000 gross tons at sea, the U S 1,310,000 tons, and total world 7,179,000 tons with 7,861,000 tons under construction. Britain holds 41.6 percent of world tonnage, up from 38.1 percent at start of 1920 while U S share fell to 18.2 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Great Britain
Lloyd’s Register of Shipping
United Kingdom
U. S
United States
Fined for Failing to Report Incomes in 1918
New Westminster police court Magistrate Edmonds fined Sangster McMurphy Mackenzie and Falch $100 and costs each for failure to file 1918 income returns after formal notification last fall. Five other cases were adjourned and more prosecutions are pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Weitminster
R. K. Sangster
J. P. McMurphy
Kenneth Mackenzie
Ed. Falch
Edmonds
Britain's 1920 Trade Shows Enormous Gains
London reports 1920 imports at £1,936,000,000, up £510,500,000 from 1919 while exports exceed £1,500,000,000, marking significant gains in postwar trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
London
Quebec Presbytery Debates Mixed Marriage Law
The Montreal Presbytery heard a report on Quebec marriage laws and mixed marriages. A formal protest was entered against annulments and ministers were urged to warn adherents about the perceived risks to marriage vows and family integrity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Quebec
General Assembly
Presbytery
My Cheque Keeps Time With My Labor
A lyrical lament on wages and the slow, uneven pace of earning money. The speaker counts earnings in small units, lamenting how hours stretch into years while pay arrives unevenly and struggles to make funds last.
Indian man dances all night in graveyard
Yakima Washington Tom Nye a Yakima Indian vanished from his home Thursday afternoon and reappeared Friday morning shoeless dancing in the Indian cemetery near Toppenish. Snow tracks show he danced across two acres. he said a spirit led him to the graves of his dead daughter and other departed Indians. He wore out two pairs of socks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yakima
Wash
Tom Nye
Toppenish
Nye
Balloonists May Pay Dearly For Their Trip
Ottawa reports three American naval balloonists who drifted into northern Canada after leaving Rockaway Beach on December 13 will be arrested by U S authorities on return home and paroled for court martial. The flight is described as a joy ride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Ottawa Journal
Canada
Rockaway Beach
N. Y
United States
Half of Eight Joke Turns on Shape
A schoolroom quip mocks arithmetic and teacher punishment. Tommy Smith jokes that half of the top of eight is zero while half of it sideways is three, highlighting a playful misunderstanding of digits and orientation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy Smith
Tommy
Thomas
Seek Landing at Prince Rupert
Prince Rupert reports the Board of Trade has been asked by the Seattle Aero Club to issue a report on facilities for an airplane landing field at the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince Rupert
Board of Trade
Seattle Aero Club
Also Mentioned on This Page
T. E. Bate
P. O. Box
Cumberland
W. Gordon
Bank President Advocates
Cumberland Public and High School
City of Cumberland
C. B. Wood
A. Mackinnon
Notte Ete
Wampole
Frost’s Pharmacy
Rexall Store
Hipress
Leckie
Paris
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