King Albert Receives Thrift Stamp From San Francisco Boy
In 1919 San Francisco, King Albert of Belgium accepted a Thrift Stamp from eleven year old Richard Siprelle who approached his car after a City Hall event. Richard explains stamps help pay debts and save money for the future and asks for a letter or autograph in return. The boy details how stamps promise a five dollar payoff when redeemed by a banker.
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California labor body backs thrift in wage earner drive
Bakersfield delegates at the California State Federation of Labor twentieth annual convention adopt a resolution urged by President Daniel C Murphy endorsing the 1919 thrift and war savings efforts. It calls for a state thrift agent with a revolving fund to manage stamps and savings certificates and urges federal authorities to sustain the war savings program to aid wage earners.
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