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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1919
Page
5
The piece urges home ownership as path to happiness and stability. It promotes War Savings stamps and Treasury Savings certificates as affordable steps, detailing costs and maturities for 1919 and 1924 goals, and notes the 4 percent interest with quarterly compounding and redeemability at any post office.
A wartime plea urges buying War Savings stamps as a safe investment for future needs. Two hundred stamps this year become 1000 dollars in 1924 for equipment, education, a car, or rainy-day funds, with smaller amounts maturing to 500 and 250 dollars.
A garbled passage shows characters named Sargent and Johnny in a tense classroom moment. One voice dismisses trouble as nothing while another laments repeated taunts and sorrowful looks from a likely teacher and peers.
War Department to pass 15,000,000 hand grenades into Government Savings Societies as savings banks for workers. About 20,000 organizations are lined up with 100,000 more to join. Each grenade bank holds coins, replacing explosives, and can be bought by purchasing three War Savings Stamps over three months.
New Savings Certificates in denominations of $100 and $1,000 are distributed across five states. They may be bought in September for $84 and $840, mature January 1, 1924, and are registered to guard against theft. They pay 4 percent interest compounded quarterly and can replace 1919 War Savings Stamps.
The USDA urges uniform, high quality, cleanly packed produce for parcel post. Producers should ship only fancy goods, maintain uniform size and color, and avoid fruit that has fallen to the ground. Establish buyer relations, clarify remittance duties, and prefer monthly payments for steady business.
A shy girl visits a farm and notes the farmers’ care for pigs with electric fans to keep them cool. The tale highlights kindness and animal welfare on rural grounds.
A 1917 University of West Virginia extension census shows better farms yield far more with fertilizer. An average farm hand on improved soil can triple output over ordinary land, producing 485 bushels of grain corn from 43 acres and showing soil quality greatly influences effort and morale.
The illustration highlights two life stages when the Hes sian fly is most destruc tive. Late seeding is essential to eradication and requires fertilizer or soil enrichment to strengthen young plants for winter.
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