Word: stamps
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...latest method to raise money for war purposes interests those who have no bank account and those who have plenty of ready money. The stamp system depends on the collection of small savings from day to day. Instead of a bond for a comparatively large amount, maturing several years hence, the Government has printed war savings stamps, which can be redeemed with interest at ten day's notice. Sixteen thrift stamps may be obtained singly, which enable one to purchase a war savings stamp, valued at $4.12. These may be bought at any postoffice. By still collecting, until...
...after November 2, 1917, letters mailed in Cambridge for delivery through any post office outside the Boston Postal District must bear three cents in postage for each ounce or fraction thereof. United States postal cards must have one cent in postage affixed in addition to the stamp printed thereon. This rate applies to any address. Private post cards bearing written inscriptions must also have two cents in postage affixed. The Boston Postal District within which the rate on first class matter will remain unchanged, includes Boston and towns in the immediate vicinity...
Then comes the stamp tax on bank checks. This is tyranny indeed, and we can well understand what Patrick Henry was so huffy about back in colonial days. For this gruelling measure intends to charge us for every check we write. How many times have we sought to impress our creditors around Harvard Square with what affluence we were possessed! We thought nothing of presenting a check for an account of thirty-nine cents ten months overdue. Our signatures did look well on those pieces of evidence. But this mus all a thing of the good old past...
...each issue will be given to the Red Cross, and thereby distributed to the fighting forces at the front. Following the example of many of the leading American publications, the Lampoon is asking each subscriber to forward his copy to the soldiers and sailors. Moreover, a one-cent stamp is placed on each number before distribution, so that the reader has only to drop his copy in a mail-box to be sure that it will reach the military forces...
...final drawings are to be sent in a mailing tube and must bear the postmark or express stamp of Saturday, April 21. They should be addressed to Professor H. L. Warren, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. The drawings of the unsuccessful competitors will be returned. The drawings are to be signed by the competitor and are to be accompanied by a written statement signed by him to the effect that they have been made by him alone, without assistance of other persons and in entire accord with the provisions of the conditions...