Christmas Gifts With Baby Bonds And War Savings Stamps
Do your Christmas planning early and buy government security gifts at low current prices. The $100 Treasury Savings certificate costs $84.60 in December, yielding $100 in five years. the $1,000 certificate costs $346, with $1,000 on maturity. War Savings stamps cost $4.23 in December and in five years yield $5. Government securities are nonfluctuating and registered in the owner's name, with purchase options at post offices, banks, or via the Seventh District War Savings organization in Chicago.
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Uncle San
Sam
Lfe
Treasury
Washington
Seventh District War Savings Organization
West Monroe Street
Chicago
Work Save Succeed Revised Versions
A compact verse fragment about a small man laying down his gun and bullets of lead and finding a little book. He looks inside and says many happy things, recorded in a revised version of the poem.
Humpty Dumpty and War Savings Stamp Song
A children’s verse adaptation links Humpty Dumpty to War Savings Stamps. It parodies the nursery rhyme while urging purchase of stamps as a patriotic act. The narrator praises thrift and saving through a government shop motif.
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Joan
Thrift Habit Parables From Elbert Hubbard Quotation
A quirky quotation argues thrift as a habit guiding daily spending. It compares early thrift to lion cubs and notes that over time these habits rule behavior, urging readers to choose a habit that ensures earning more than spending as a path to control.
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Elbert Hubbard
Liberty Bond Interest Reinvested In War Savings Stamps
The government announces November 15 as a payday for liberty bond interest amounting to RM8517218 to be reinvested in War Savings stamps and Treasury Savings certificates. Citizens are urged to reinvest coupons, promoting savings over spending, with December 15 another reinvestment date.
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United States
Liberty
Treasury
Wntl
Treasury Savings
Uncle Sam
Buy Only What You Need War Savings Campaign Posters
The Seventh district promotes government savings societies in industrial plants with posters urging workers to cut waste and buy only what they need. Slogans include Don’t buy what you don’t need and Work Save and Succeed. Workers are encouraged to save regularly and invest in safe securities like War Savings stamps and Treasury Savings certificates.
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W. SS
Treasury
Government official oversees savings society drive
A government representative, named for all his time to organizing Savings societies, is appointed from each department as secretary of a society. The timekeeper serves as a constant reminder to coworkers to invest in government securities.
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Planta A& Man
College Savings Clubs In All The High Schools
War Savings educational committee chairs Shailer Mathews outline plan to create college savings clubs in Seventh district high schools. Readiness for college depends on regular saving through War Savings stamps, with earnings from after school and vacation work. Mrs Alfred J Benson urges continued support from schools and churches division.
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War Savings Educational Committee
Shailer Mathews
Chicago
Alfred J. Benson
Division of Schools and Churches
Tnois
School child income sources and proposed accounts
The article outlines three income sources for school children: individual earnings, parental allowances, and gifts. It proposes developing individual accounts for students, to be refined by a committee later, while detailing the district’s school and teachers’ associations and listing committee members including Shaffer Mathews and others from Detroit Indianapolis and Milwaukee.
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Sre
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Humpty Dumpty
Humpty
Brother Sandy
U. S
Lillafore
Shaffer Mathews
A. Graft
Indianapolis
J. ¥. McNally
Detroit
Thomas Boyce
Miwaukee
Plc. Altman
Albert Boswell
Chas
Norby
William and Mary
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