Savings More Than Double In A Decade
New York reports show United States bank and trust company savings deposits more than doubled in a decade. Accounts rose about 141 percent, with 1922 deposits at 8.43 billion and 1922 accounts at 12.58 million, compared to 1912 figures. The rise is attributed to better saver services and aggressive canvassing by banks and the American Bankers Association division.
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New York
United States
Savings Bank Division
American Bankers Association
Safety Fleet advertisement knots marriage hints to a job
Mrs Khagg says many would have married her if not for him. Husband notes they only hinted after marriage. Wanted a man or woman for full time job selling guaranteed hosiery to weaver. Salary 75 dollars weekly full time, 1.50 an hour spare time. Goods include cottons, heathers and silks. GUARANTEED MILLS Norristown Pa.
Rogers Rangers Race on Ice at Lake George described
A 1757 expedition led by Maj. Robert Rogers saw Rangers on skates chase a sledge train across Lake George near Ticonderoga. Rogers fired, captured drivers, and after an all day fight, retreated to Fort William Henry with many Rangers dead or wounded in a brutal clash with French and Indian forces.
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Lake George
New York
Rogers
Maj
Robert Rogers
Ticonderoga
Grown Point
John Stark
Stark
Bennington
Fort William
Tales of the Old Frontier and the Voyageurs
In old frontier days fur trade dominated the Middle West with French Canadian traders and voyageurs at center stage. The voyageur life meant hard toil and meager pay, yet loyalty to the bourgeois stayed strong as illustrated by a midwinter boat incident where a voyageur was ordered to steer and complied after hours of frostbitten effort. Proteau's Barber Shop, Agency for Bessemer Steam Laundry.
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Middle Western
M. St. Jean
Upper
Mississippi
Monsieur
Jumel Mansion in New York a Historic Georgian Showpiece
The Jumel Mansion near Amsterdam Avenue and 160th Street in New York is a famed Georgian house with Revolutionary War significance. Built by Colonel Robert Morris and General Washington in the 1770s, it served as Hessian and British headquarters, hosted Washington’s cabinet in 1790, later passed to Stephen Jumel, then to Aaron Burr, and was acquired by the city in 1908 with the Daughters of the American Revolution using it as a museum.
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Robert Morris
Jumel
One
Sixtieth Street
Amsterdam Avenue
New York
Forty-seventh
George Washington
New York City
Albany
Washington
Stephen Jumel
Mme. Jumel
Aaron Burr
United States
Alexander Hamilton
Weehawken
New Jersey
Chasdlé
Burr
Mme. James
Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Union
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Joseph Kerkes
Prop
Wakefield, Mich
Stre and
American Bankers Association Agricultural Commission
Norristown, Pa
Elmo Scott Watson
Nia
America
T. T. Maxey
Acorn
Nels Waistrom
Wyandotte Cave
Ohio River
Indiana
Ohio
Tiis
Old Fellows Hall
Crawford County
Proteau’s Barber Shop
Bessemer Steam Laundry
Sacks
Wakefield
Dad
Lad
Michigan
Kiarvels
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