g;B , - - THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 29, 1919.
LIFE INSURANCE
INTEREST LARGE
IN MIDDLE WEST
.Modem Business Man Needs
; Life Insurance to Establish
Credit; Investments by
-. Insurance Firms.
- One of the significant signs of the
times is the rapid growth of the life
insurance interest of the middle
west.
The annual report of the insurance
commissioner of the state shows
that , the total assets of legal re
serve life companies chartered in
Nebraska has reached a total run
ning up to many millions. What is
more important is that the accumu
lated net legal reserve which is set
nuput under the law to protect the
interests of policy holders is fully
dequaU to meet all reasonable re
quirements. Moreover,vthe accumu
lated assets are so large as to more
than eorer the aggregate liabilities
of these companies, with millions to
spar.
The . success achieved br the
Bankers' Reserve Life Co. of Omaha
affords a brilliant chapter in the
chronicles of life insurance In the
middle west. This company is less
than 25 vears old. and vet it has
1 assets of about $9,000,000 and the
I total business in force is close to
$49,000,000. Another important item
showing the rapid growth of this
company is the amount of new bus-
I iness of the company now coming
in, which averages ?Z,000,()00 a
month. This showing is ground for
the prediction that the total busi
ness will soon be over $50,000,000.
Invested In Bonds.
The assets of the Bankers' Re-
serve Co. are largely invested in
i county, municipal and school bonds,
whose value is now about $5,700,000.
I Company holds first mortgages on
real estate of over ?I,000,000. The
securities pay a good interest rate
and in normal years the interest
income of the company exceeds vlhe
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(coma nui oe saia 01 me mortality
rate of last year because of the war
and the prevalence of the Spanish
influenza which caused more deaths
than the war. The Bankers'
Reserve is in common with all other
life insnrance companies, sustained
lextraorodinary death losses, all of
which were promptly paid without
H 'discommoding the company in any
.way. ronunaieiy ine. company
.: lias accumulated a large sur-
'4 fftlna which waa tntriAAA in tnAfr
any extraordinary drain upon the
company resources such as those
visited upon the people of this
nation within the last two years.
Therefore, the Bankers' Reserve
i company found itself in a state of
preparedness to meet any emergency
however great,
f There are other reasons for
the success of the Bankers' Reserve
company, one of which is the liberal
S terms of its policy contracts which
lhave met the requirements of the
! farmers as well as those of the
vj townspeople. This refers to the
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inese policies anora as weu as tne
liberal dividends paid to living
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i than- those paid by any other life
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1 total payments to policy holders
exceed SS.ZiU.UUU, These liberal
dividends have naturally made a
Strong appeal to the farmers as well
as ethers, and have oooularlzed the
I policies of this company as noth
ing else could have done.
3 - Another nnint which tiai -Mtlv
promoted the success of this com
pany is its policies held by busi
nessmen who used them for stabil
izing their credit at the bank. The
business men of the west have come
to understand that they cannot afford
! to be without life insurance. Credit-
1.01 are constantly requiring that
-'Vors Insure their lives iust as
insure their property. This is
1 men apply for loans. It is
generally known that the fov-
Jsnt, through its federal reserve
I, now require informtion as to
Mount of life insurance carried
3ose whose notes are offered
discount. Building and loan
Rations, also require borrow
3 state amount of life Insurance
itd.
lie constant growth of the
'Iters' Reserve company is due
fit measure to the high quaiin-
lons of its executive officers.
Fo have grows no with the com-
iay during the last 20 years.
In tha enndnct af thm com-
iny'a affairs under which the busi
ness is -expanding in Z5 states as
never before.
Teaches a Million to
Sing National Anthem
Boston Henry W. Rankin of the
naval training station, claims to have
taught more persons to sing "The
Star Spangled Banner" than any
other individual in the entire coun-
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i Up to a few months ago he was
ii the musical director at the station,
i 111 health caused him to take up
. ether work.
Mr. Rankin states that he does
I not feel that it is an overestimation
m saying that he has taught or di
rected the national anthem to more
than 1,000,000 persons.
His larsrest chorus was ia August,
1917. when he led nearly 14,000
voices in singing the national an
them accompanied by a band of 125
pieces. "
- Seaplane Race Next September.
London. The international sca-
clane race for the Jacques Schneid
er trophy, with a prise of $5,000, will
be held in September under auspices
of "the Royal Aero club, present
holders of the trophy.
The race, of 200 miles, will be
over a sea circuit of not less than
five miles.
It is expected that entries will
be made by British, French, Amer
ican, Italian, Belgian and Spanish
fliers.
- The last race,, held at Monte Car-
lo in 1914, was won by C. H. How
ard Pixton, of England, in a Sop-
with seaplane.
The event will probobly be held
at some seacoast resort in the south
Strong Market (or
Onions Is Outlook
Of Texas Growers
Laredo, Tex., June 28. With one
of the smallest crops of Bermuda
onions grown in the Laredo section
in the 15 years that the onion-growing
industry has been one of the
principal agricultural pursuits here
abouts, the crop has been the most
profitable in years as a result of a
strong market demand and good
prices prevailing throughout the
onion season which is now about
ended.
The total onion shipments out of
the Laredo section this season ag
gregate approximately 1,100 car
loads, and it is estimated that the
returns for the crop will amount to
$1,600,000. While the growers all
made good profits from their crops,
the buyers likewise shared in the
profits by reason of the fact that
many of the distributing agencies
contracted for the crop early in the
year at a certain figure and sold
them at a price almost double that
which they paid the growers. At
no time during the shipping season
did the price go down to any ex
tent, while, on the other hand, the
fluctuation was generally to cause a
rise in prices.
During the season of 1918 more
than 2,000 carloads of onions were
shipped out of Laredo, but the mar
ket was in such a demoralized con
dition that many onion growers
were practically bankrupted and
many were compelled to retire from
the onion-growing game. This year
the growers were strongly or
ganized and, having decided after
last year's catastrophe to decrease
the onion acreage, they had a
comparatively small crop planfed
this year. While pests did not ap
pear to damage the crop as in most
past years, rains during the matur
ing season caused a loss of approxi
mately 200 carloads of onions, as
they became water-soaked.
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For instance
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ITEN BISCUIT, a plain or unsalted high grade soda cracker, packed only in
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Vanilla Wafers, Fig Bars, Creme Sandwich, Alpine Creams, High Tea, Society
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SERVICE, MOTTO
OF NEBRASKA
BUILDING GO,
Local Firm Erects AH Kinds
of Structures, Such as Ho
tels, Clubs and Pri
vate Homes.
Service has been the one big
principle on which the Nebraska
Building & Investment Co., has
built its business, and to this prin
ciple it credits its success.
To combine, as has been done
in its architectural and building
organization, every possible facility
for the handling of the many and
varied complexities of the business
of building, and placing before the
builder in a more convenient and
economical manner than he could
buy these many forms of service
elsewhere has been the ideal of the
company.
The many buildings which today
stand out as monuments of the
Nebraska Building & Investment
Co's energy, are only a small out
lay, compared with the company's
plans for the future.
This company does not confine
itself to dwelling places, but
designs, plans, constructs and
furnishes business buildings of all
types including banks, office
btiildings, hotels, lodge and club
buildings.
Goat Attends Funeral.
London. Draped in black, a goat,
the regimental mascot of the
Third batallion Welsh regiment, was
in the procession at the funeral of
Lieut. Col. E. A. Pope, commander
of the regiment, at Golder's Green.
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Picnic, Hike,
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rishing trip
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London Girls Fail to
Find Hubbies and Put
Blame On Widows
London, June 28. In these days
of expensive furniture, scarcity of
houses and coy young men who
have been trenching it so long they
shy at matrimony, widows are sure
ly wonderful.
"A girl who wants to marry"
writes to the Daily Sketch depicting
all the injustice of the situation as
it stands at present in the English
marriage market.
And she doesn't care for widows
at all.
She even thinks there ought to be
governmental protection against
'em.
The young man back from the
trenches, she says, claims he doesn't
want to settle down. He wants to
travel. He's afraid of the financial
uncertainty of the married state. He
has become sufficient unto himself.
Moreover, he isn't game for the
gamble with the young girl, "inex
perienced" in the financial and man
agerial tasks of home-making.
But let him meet a widow.
Then it develops that all his pro
fessed distaste for home life and
matrimonial ties is null and void,
and that he didn't really mean it in
the first place.
For the widows, likely as not, al
ready have the furniture in the
house, or in the flat. Or they may
own the house itself.
Truly, widows are wonderful and
"'the girl who wants to marry" sees
no solution of the difficulty.
From Chorus to Peeress.
London. Evie Carew, former
chorus girl, now the- wife of Capt.
Rowland Winn, of the Coldstream
guards, has become a peeress as the
result of the death of Lord St.
Oswald, her husband's father.
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