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Silver Coins 1921

BRITAIN’S NEW SILVER CURRENCY
SOME ten months ago the price of silver rose to a phenomenal figure in Great Britain and the authorities felt considerable anxiety lest people should be tempted to melt down the silver coinage in order to obtain silver bullion from it. Whereas in prewar days the shilling had an intrinsic value of [...]

A New Name for Swiss Cheese 1927

WHEN IT’S REALLY SWISS CHEESE
SCANDALS in the Swiss Cheese Family, the reformers sadly admit, have made it almost as notorious as the Swiss Family Robinson. It is not merely that a ring of cheese around a hole bigger than a silver dollar, and filled in with mustard, as the New York Evening World complains, has [...]

Europe using more silver 1925

EUROPE USING MORE SILVER
One reason why the price of silver remained higher in 1924 than in 1923, was the large demand for silver for coinage in continental Europe. According to The Wall Street Journal, “European demand for coinage continues, and it is believed with the greater stabilization of exchange more silver will lie in demand [...]

Grape Growing During Prohibition

When prohibition was announced it had a marked effect on American grape growers. Doom and gloom pervaded the grape growing industry as growers reflected on the negative effect this would have on their incomes. Grape growers considered all their options and the general view was that the industry was finished and new sources of income [...]

Hyperinflation Conditions in Germany 1923

The effects of Hyperinflation on the People and Economy
The general impression received from three months in South Germany was of a people on short ration, mentally distressed, and living from hand to mouth; a people terribly shattered, terribly demoralized. They were industrious without hope; their moral nature was weakened, their courage undermined, or worn to [...]

8 Reasons to use Checks in 1925

BANKERS SUPPLY COMPANY CHECKSÂ
How a checking account helps you get ahead - in 8 ways!
You’ve thought of a check-book as a convenience. . . Now learn how it furthers financial success
THE way to handle money efficiently, say authorities and successful people, is to determine in advance just where each dollar is going. Thus you spend [...]

The Telephone Hour 1929

Bring Them “back Home” … by Telephone
HOLIDAYS over . . . children on their way back to school . . . friends scat-tered . . . grown sons and daughters off to the city again. . . .
But there is one sure way of bringing them “back home” all through the year. By telephone!
Talking to [...]

1929 Christmas Club Money

MORE CHRISTMAS-CLUB MONEY THAN EVER
“PEOPLE who depend on the Christmas â€” Club for their holiday spendings are not affected by the recent unpleasantness in Wall Street, for a recent press statement shows that this year’s payments are to be 10 per cent. greater than last year’s, and more than five times the amount in 1920. [...]

Overpaying Income Tax in 1925

DON’T OVERPAY YOUR INCOME TAX!
IT SEEMS strange that after all these years of income-tax paying, the Bureau of Internal Revenue should find it necessary to warn taxpayers making income returns not to pay more than they actually owe. But such is the case, observes Bradstreet’s, noting that the issuance of such a statement was found [...]

US Businessmen Need to Learn Chinese 1924

CHINESE AS A BUSINESS NECESSITY
THE NEED OF KNOWLEDGE of the Chinese language in order to do business in China is said to be overlooked by some American firms, and this fact is much regretted by an American weekly of Shanghai. Three or four years ago American business men in that city, we are told, showed [...]