The Freedmen's Savings Bank

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Identifikator:: 175265076X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-129631

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Fleming, Walter Lynwood http://d-nb.info/gnd/120660560X

Title:: The Freedmen's Savings Bank

Place of publication:: Chapel Hill

Publisher:: Univ. of North Carolina Press

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: x, 170 S.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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144 THE FREEDMEN’S SAVINGS BANK 3. SPECIMENS OF THE ADVERTISING LITERATURE 1. (BANK BOOK, OUTSIDE COVER, EDITION OF 1867) NATIONAL SAVINGS BANK FREEDMEN’S SAVINGS AND TRUST COMPANY, Chartered by Congress PRINCIPAL OFFICE, CORNER 19th STREET AND PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, WASHINGTON,.D. C. WASHINGTON BRANCH OFFICE, AT THE SAME PLACE, Where deposits will be received every business day from 9 aM. to 3 P.M. Branches also in New York, Baltimore, and all the Principal Cities of the South and Southwest “Tall oaks from little acorns grow.” “DESPISE NOT THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS.” 2. (BookLET, 1869, p. 12) Temperance Man.—A printer once determined that every time his fellow-workmen went out to drink beer during the working hours he would put in the bank the exact amount which he would have spent if he had gone out to drink. He kept to this resolution for five years. He then examined his bank account, and found that he had on deposit $521.86. In the five years he had not lost a day from ill health. Three out of five of his fellow-workmen had in the meantime become drunkards, were worthless

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