Christmas gifts with government baby bonds and War Savings
Do your Christmas planning early and buy Uncle Sam secured gifts. The $100 Treasury Savings certificate costs $84.40 in November and pays $100 on January 1, 1924. The $1,000 certificate costs $844 and yields a thousand in five years. War Savings stamps cost $4.22 in November and $4.23 in December, with five dollars in five years. Thrift stamps are 25 cents. Certificates are registered with owner names and kept in Washington. Purchase through post offices, banks, or the Seventh District War Savings office in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Treasury
Treasury Savings
Washington
Seventh District War Savings Organization
West Monroe Street
Chicago
Ill
War Savings Stamp song parody for thrift drive
A verse about War Savings Stamps urging thrift and support for the war effort. It retells Humpty Dumpty learning to save, contrasting past waste with new discipline, and ends with a call to buy stamps for each family member including a sibling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan
Humpty Dumpty
Humpty
Thrift Habit Promotes Earning More Than Spending
The piece argues thrift as a controlling habit shaping behavior. It claims thrift means earning more than spending and urges choosing which habit rules your life. A playful metaphor likens young thrift to lion cubs growing into rulers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Libert Hubbard
Sullivan Times 1884 highlights and local notices
A look back at Sullivan County Indiana events from November 1884 including political coverage of Cleveland and Hendricks, local ads for merchants, licenses, marriages, court rulings, personal notes, and a market report. The item preserves names such as Grover Cleveland, Hendricks, Voorhees, Pollock & Brother, Wolfe and Bushell, and local residents and businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Bartlett
Sullivan Times
Masonic Building
Washington and
Main Streets
National Bank
Terre Haute
A. M. Knotts
D. J. Kendrick Tire
Sylvia
Guardian
Grover Cleveland
Thomas A. Hendricks
Cleveland
Hendricks
New York
New Jersey
Indiana
D. W. Voorhees
United States Senate
Washington Dispatch
Dope
Washington
Blaine
Board of Commissioners
Sullivan County
State of
Fred Jones
Crawford House
Cincinnati
D. B. DeVoe
Carpenter and
Sullivan City
Currysville
Julian
Messers
F. E. Basler
P. H. Blue
Murray Crawley
David Crawley
Jas
Patten
W. C. Jamison
Thos. J. Mann
J. C
Township Institute
Marlow
F. C. Boone
Nellie Ingersoll
McCullen
Nemo
Curry and
Curry
P. McKinney
Marble and Granite Works
New Orleans
Beasley and Williams
Pittsburg
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Brink Book
the National Bank
Sullivan
Idrick Sullivan
Ind
Sullivan Mfg. Co
E. A. Billman
Brother Sandy
Abram Trout
Susan Hackney
Wm. Frakes
Amanda J. Julian
Geo. W. Hunter
Mary McKinley
M. S. Heavenridge
M. E. Church of
J. S Bays
Master Lee
Worthington
Wolfe and Bushell
J. Aug Ritter
Troll
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winton-Salem, N.C
Amels
Martin’s
Crescent Theatre
7Th and
Wabash Avenue
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