Savings Grow Rapidly Across United States
New data from the Savings Bank Division of the American Bankers Association show savings deposits in U S banks and trust companies more than doubling over the past decade with accounts rising about 141 percent. If equally distributed, 1912 would yield $89 per person while 1922 would yield at least $158. The report attributes growth to improved saver services and aggressive canvassing for accounts.
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New York
United States
Savings Bank Division
American Bankers Association
Hosiery Sales Position at Guaranteed Mills
Job notice from Guaranteed Mills offering a full time salary of 75 dollars per week and 1.50 an hour spare time to sell cottons heathers and silks hosiery to weavers. Men and women urged to apply.
Rogers Rangers Race on Lake George in Bold Skating Raid
In January 1757 Maj. Robert Rogers led Rogers Rangers on a daring ice raid across Lake George near Ticonderoga. Lt. John Stark intercepted sledges, Rogers chased, fired, and captured one driver as his men pursued the rest. After a brutal all day fight many Rangers were killed or wounded, but they held off French and Indians and retreated to 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
Fort William Fenry
America's Marvels Natural and Otherwise
A historical feature recounts the discovery and wonders of Wyandotte Cave in Crawford County near the Blue River confluence with the Ohio. It details wartime saltpeter use, cavern formations such as the Pillar and Columbian Arch, vast chambers, a 72 foot circumference pillar, and cave fauna including bats and blind creatures in Fellows Hall.
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Ohio River
Indiana
Ohio
Nea
Senate
Old Fellows Hall
Wyandotte Cave
Crawford County
The Voyageurs Role in Fur Trade Frontier Life
A vivid scene of French Canadian voyageurs paddling home on the river under the bourgeois gaze. The piece recalls the fur trade era on the Middle Western frontier with hard work, scant pay, and stubborn loyalty. A winter ordeal tests a voyageur forced to steer a frozen sternboat for two hours, proving adaptability beyond contracted duties.
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Middle Western
M. St. Jean
Upper
Mississippi
Iis Voyageurs
Monsieur
Prateau's Barber Shop and Bessemer Laundry Agency
Prateau's Barber Shop operates alongside the Agency for Bessemer Steam Laundry. The listing notes local services and a joint commercial presence in the Bessemer area.
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Prateau
Bessemer Steam Laundry
Robert Morris House the Jumel Mansion in New York City
The Jumel Mansion near One hundred sixtieth Street and Amsterdam Avenue in New York is a famed Georgian relic linked to Colonel Robert Morris and General George Washington. Once British and Hessian headquarters, it later became Washington's dinner site in 1790 and a museum after 1907, with a long history including Burr, Hamilton, and Iroquois sachems visits.
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Robert Morris
Jumell
Sixtieth Street
Amsterdham Avenue
New York
George Washington
New York City
Albany
Washingtonn
Stephen Jumel
Fame
Washington
Jumel
Mme. Jumel
Aaron Burr
United States
Alexander Hamilton
Weehawken
New Jersey
Chasde
Lature
James
Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
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the Palace
Joseph Kerkes
Wakefield
American Bankers Association Agricultural Commission
Safety Fleet
Acorn
Nels Walstrom
America
T. T. Maxey
Elmo Scott Wats
al AA
Dad
Lad
Michigan
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