Thrift Plan for School Children a Great Success
The Educational Thrift Service in our city, run by the Mercantile National Bank savings department under W H Hodgin, boosts child savings. With Bank Day each Tuesday, 93 percent of attendees deposit, total deposits near $9000 last spring, and about 4000 accounts active. Elm Street School leads, Fairview and Leonard Street show strong results, and plans aim to instill thrift habits and reduce waste through school deposits and guardian oversight.
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Mercial National Bank
W. H. Hodgin
Elm Street
Fairview
Leonard Street
Hodgin
lgIm Gt
Oak Hill
Leonard St
Cloverdale
Ray St
U S Imports Set Record High in Nine Months of 1925
The Foreign Commerce Department of the Chamber of Commerce reports U S imports for 1925 likely to exceed four billion dollars. Nine months show a 15 percent rise over the prior year, with record values in raw silk, rubber, cane sugar, and fur skins, and overall gains across major import groups.
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Washington
Foreign Commerce Department
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Yanks to Meet Australian Stars in Australia Tour
Travitations will extend to American sporting bodies to send picked athletes to Australia to compete with Australian stars. Contests on a large scale are planned for Sydney Melbourne and other cities. A return visit by Australian crack athletes is part of the plan.
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Melbourne
Australia
Sydney
President O Leary forecasts a hopeful 1926 for U S business
John W. O Leary president of the United States Chamber of Commerce writes that business conditions are sound and prospects for 1926 look encouraging. He cites rising farm prices improved crops a growing cooperative marketing system building records credit stability and robust investment as signs of sustained prosperity with France open to debt talks and a new public attitude toward enterprise guiding policy and growth.
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John W. O’leary
United States Chamber of Commerce
John W. O'Leary
Washington, D. C
NEA
O'Leary
United States
Chamber of Commerce of the
America
Early ice in London beats 40 year pattern
London reports skating possible this year earlier than in four decades as pools show an ice layer of one and a half inches and forecasts promise continued cold weather. In a separate note, William Hardy, arrested on a warrant from 1900 for abandonment, received a three month sentence at hard labor.
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London
William Hardy
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