Savings more than double in decade
New York reported savings deposits in banks and trust companies of the United States have more than doubled in amount during the past decade, with accounts rising about 141 percent. If distributed equally, 1912 would yield $89 per person, while 1922 would be less than $158. The rise is credited to better bank services for savers and aggressive canvassing for accounts.
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New York
United States
Savings Bank Division
American Bankers Association
Safety First
A fragment from a 19th or early 20th century comic exchange shows Mrs Knagg teasing about suitors and her husband retorts that hints of marriage were offered only after she wed him, implying irony in romantic expectations.
Man and woman sought for hosiery sales job
Spare time and full time positions available at Guaranteed Mills in Norristown Pennsylvania. Salary seven five dollars weekly for full time or one fifty dollars per hour for spare time. Sell guaranteed hosiery to wearers including cottons heathers and silks.
Rogers Rangers Skates Race on Lake George Frontiersmen Duel
Rogers Rangers led by Maj Robert Rogers push skates across frozen Lake George in a 1757 raid near Ticonderoga. Lieutenant John Stark pursues sledges, Rogers fires, captures a driver, and the Rangers retreat after a fierce all day fight. many Rangers fall and Rogers is wounded before reaching Fort William Henry. For sale Acorn Hard Coal Base Burner offered by Nels Walstrom.
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Lake George
New York
Rogers
Maj
Robert Rogers
Ticonderoga
Crown Point
John Stark
Stark
Bennington
Man
Fort William Geary
Wyandotte Cave a Natural Wonder in Crawford County
The article details Wyandotte Cave in Crawford County near the Blue River meeting the Ohio, a vast underground rock paradise. It notes its saltpeter origins during the War of 1812, natural epsom salt frosting, and deposits of niter and plaster. Spectacular features include the Pillar, Columbian Arch, the Senate Chamber, and a 72 foot round pillar. It hosts sightless animals and thousands of bats wintering in Fellows Hall, with dimensions: Fellows Hall 90 by 210 by 65 feet. Wyandotte Cave rivals Mammoth Cave in size and grandeur.
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Ohio River
Indiana
Ohio
Voyageurs and Bourgeois on the Middle Western Fur Route
A vivid reminiscence of the fur trade era describes the French Canadian voyageur and his bourgeois, the hardship and loyalty of the voyageurs, and a winter ordeal in which a stubborn worker is forced to steer a frozen boat to learn his duties. Proteau's Barber Shop, Agency for Bessemer Steam Laundry.
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Middle Western
M. St. Jean
Upper Mississippi
Monsieur
Jaimel Mansion once home to Washington and Burr history
The Robert Morris house near One hundred sixtieth street and Amsterdam avenue in New York, famed as a Georgian treasure, hosted George Washington in 1776 and served as British Hessian headquarters in 1778. It later became Calumet Tin and was linked to Burr and Mme Jumel before becoming a museum owned by the city and the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Robert Morris
Jaimel
Sixtieth Street
Amsterdam Avenue
New York
George Washington
Washinton
Fort Washington
Baron von Kuypausen
New York City
Albany
Washington
Stephen Jumel
Jumel
Mme, Jumel
Aaron Burr
United States
Alexander Hawilton
Weehawken
New Jersey
Attorney Chase
Burr
Mme. James
Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Western Newspaper Union
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the Palace
Joseph Kerkes
Wakefield
American Bankers Association Agricultural Commission
Norristown, Pa
Elmo Scott Watson
Acorn
Nels Walstrom
America
T. T. Maxey
Wyandotte Cave
Elmo Scott Watsc
Proteau's Barber Shop
Bessemer Steam Laundry
Dad
Lad
Michigan
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