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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1919)
THE . OMAHA" BEE 1,594 DEATHS IN OMAHA DURING LAST THREE MONTHS OF 1918 Of this number it is estimated that less than 15 per cent carried life insurance, and less than 22 per cent carried health or accident ifiSUrance. 1918 1919 Time often takes one by surprise. Carelessly and indifferently we let the years slip alohg. Then suddenly Old Age or Accident calls a halt and throws us back upon our well-spent, but ill-saved resources, and we realize for the first time what had been our privilege had we but listened. The year of 1919 opens full of promise for all. Itih a yedr in which great things are to h accomplished. It is a year in which we should, strive to do our very best, and give, not tilone to ourselves, but our families as well, protection against things unknovm and unseen. As the sand in the hour glass gradually descends to the bottom, just so surely are we drawing together the strands of Life's curtain soon time will have laid its gentle, though none the less firm, hands over our eyqs and our loved ones aire left in sorrow, many in actual want, through a seeming carelessness in not affording them adequate and just protection which was their due in this the day of one's full health and capabilities. ; A spirit of depression cannot help but pervade the household when either sick ness or death enter when it is the wage-earner still greater becomes the cloud of . gloom, unless, perchance, he has obviated the uncertainties of Life and provided for the support of his family and the education of his children, who in a few short years must take their place in the business world, shaping their future destinies as best they can through the means you have provided. This should be the father's thought, the mother's thought. In all fairness let us ask, what thought have you given it? You will realize more than ever if you are insured the value of health and acci dent insurance if you have the support of an indemnity check each week. It isjhe ' sustaining arm of the household and gives to one that feeling of security rwt to be had otherwise. You would not intentionally leave your family to the mercy of kind f riends, nor wish them -thrown upon their own resources, when you can without any inconvenience and no hardship, protect them as is their due. What Will Your An iwer When A Representative of Any of the Following Companies Galls at Your Home? Travelers Insurance Co. 1331 City National Bank Building TOM S. KELLY, General Agent National Life Insurance Co. of Vermont 906 First National Bank Building NATHAN BERNSTEIN, General Agent New York Life Insurance Co. 337 Omaha National Bank Building 0. H. MENOLD, Supervisor E. E. ZIMMERMAN Special Agents WM. NELSON New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. 792 Brandeis Building T G. W. NOBLE, General Agent CHAS. L. HOPPER Special Agents N. M. GRAHAM Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. 415 City National Bank Building EDWARD J. PHELPS, General Agent C. T. PLATT Special Agents-C. L. SYKES State Mutual Life Assurance Co. 652 Bee Building . W.H. INDOE, General Agent C. L. SMITH Special Agents-S. A. ALKIRE ; Northwestern National Life Insurance Co; 700 First National Bank Building -:- Tyler 2828 H. 0. WILHELM & Co., State Agents Theo. Coleman Geo. H. Gillispie Geo. R. Wright A.A.Schatz Wm.G. Fuller 0. H. Parkening Victor Seymour Homer C. Wilhelm Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. 409 Keeline Building HAROLD D.FINLAYSON, General Agent y Preferred Accident Insurance Co , of New York H LYNNE D. UPHAk Co., Managers and Adjusters for Nebraska