Nationwide thrift drive marks centennial savings bank year
The American Bankers Association reports a century of thrift progress led by savings banks in schools and communities. Highlights include New York City adopting a uniform system, Brooklyn reaching 116 school banks, and Texas and Minneapolis expanding student savings. The campaign aims to build enduring money skills and stronger ties between citizens and banks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savings Bank
Hershey
Savings Bank Section
American Bankers’ Association
Young Men's Christian Association
Young Women’s Christian Association
National Americanization Committee of Immigrants
Chamber of Commerce of
United States
Albany
N. Y
New Jersey
City of
New York
New York City
Brooklyn
Texas Women's Bankers Association
Texas
Minneapolis
American Bankers Association
W. W. Leisner
Savings Bank Centenial Committee
America
Angumia
Milllionaire
Temperance lecturer hires prizefighter to keep order
A reformer promoting temperance gave a lecture in a workmen's hall and, fearing disruption, engaged a former prize fighter to maintain decorum. He spoke of home life versus drink and urged restraint as a guard warned that any shout for beer would be expelled with a bang.
Elevator in the Stomach Joke at Village Apothecary
Cy Bushby visits a village druggist in a humorous scene about a mysterious stomach sensation. The chemist, pondering the symptoms, asks in mock concern if the man swallowed an elevator, turning the moment into a lighthearted town anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cy Bushby
Pa Was Wise Pap
A fragment shows a dialogue about a street car’s storage at night with a barn and feeding it currents, reflecting a rural humor exchange between characters Ike and others.
Jury Finds Temporary Insanity in Georgia Death Case
A western Georgia jury deliberated on a death by own action case and returned a verdict that the twelve jurors are of one mind, deeming the defendant temporarily insane at the time of the act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Hershey
Wornout farms being restored and fertilizer science
F B Carpenter of the American Chemical Society outlines how fertilizer chemistry transformed farming. The piece notes US production rising from 200,000 tons in 1900 to 7,631,203 tons in 1914, with two thirds in the South and farmer outlays over 150 million dollars. It credits Liebig and chemists, engineers, and miners for converting natural deposits and industrial refuse into plant food, advancing nitrogen production, nitrogen supply and modern agriculture across regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. B. Carpenter
American ‘Chemical Society
United States
West
Liebig
South America
Germany
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Bankers’ Meeting
South
Virginia
Florida
Connecticut
Walter T. Bradley
S. E. Corner
Ninth and Thompson Streets
Philadelphia
Hoffer
Engle
Hummelstown
George P. Hoffer
Palmyra
Landis
E.B. Cassady
Swratara
Swatara
E. M. Hoffer
Harrisburg
Hershey Improvement Company
Hershey Trust Company
Hershey Improvement . Company
Hershey, Pennsylvania
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