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NN es a ence ne Ld EE THE SEALVLLE STAR SKAGIT BODY TO(~ Genius Plus Personality JENLARGE PLANTIGIVE REBUTTALENDING RELIEF|M*ten frsigher Schooner Rensivce | 0 Ay rf ™ 3 S | f Rr WNBIASED a) Furniture Company Will Be IN RUM GASE Workers Leaving» Storm-| _ N) “ny © * . Oe I MEDITATION. OVER Double Present Siz Swept Territory ° a si Says Resolution Adopted Witnesses Called Ayain in " . | by Council Monday Quadra Seizure % MS WNCLUDE INS RUCTIONS Complete and Unprejudiced . 3 y Survey ts Demanded * High-Grade Furniture at Bt iat r \ 4 Practically Your Own Price The Home Furniture Co. AT 619 PINE ST. 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B.} inate aa sti - OPEN LETTER (Name on Request) Mr. Hatey Fiske, President Metrorotrran Lirg Insurance Co, New Yor Crry My Dear Mr, Fiske "t you publish a Hear th the regular Financial Sta > § f work you'r It isn’t entire doing it or why ~~. put out each year st how you" y company can publish you are doing it, grt hat, Call it a Hea ement, or an’ pressive f ial strength, . All I remember is that the Metropc licyholders and is the biggest has like, but—give us the facts. Perhaps other we w myself would be ir > => s iq following some of your magazine that kind. ery colo Hee va | E are indebted to Mr. S. for his suggestion. While the average life span in the United States is Y y) It is an excellent one. We publish an annual $14 years greater than it was 12 years ago, the life span | yi Susiness Statement of the Metropolitan, not ot the Industrial Policyholders of the Metropolitan in- because we think that the figures will be remembered, but creased nearly 814 years—a betterment of three years rn N because they offer conclusive evidence of unusual growth over the general average—in the same interval. and strength to its 22,000,000 policyholders, And it is this extraordinary financial strength that makes it possible for the Metropolitan to carry on a nation-wide campaign for better health and longer life. These increases in longer life are due in large part to the Metropolitan’s Health and Welfare Work among its policyholders, 5 os ae Swiss Brick Pimento American Old English (Sharp American) 1 1b, and 5 Ib. loaves IFS METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY—NEW YORK Biggest in the World—More Assets, More Policyholders, More Insurance in Force, More New Insurance Each Year A Mutual Company—Incorporated by the State of New York Also 5 Varieties in Tins é People now live longer : You are the gainer Records kept by the Metropolitan show an extraor- You and all the other chi ead Soak policyholders— dinary decrease in the death rate among its policy- ane ae nae ae ee the steer nea Canada ‘ ¥/ holders. Compared with 1911, for example, there were pay the benefit through better health and decreased “A EN you buy Kraft Cheese you pay Os nearly 62,000 fewer deaths in 1924 among its Industrial cost of insurance. \ W for nothing except what is edible and y Policyholders than there would have been if the 1911 The wealth of the Metropolitan belongs to you and good. You will like this feature about y death rate had prevailed. to no one else. ‘The Metropolitan has no stock and no \ Kraft Cheese, for there is not a particle of / a Nee aS ge CALS cae mocrnaaere It is owned waste, whether in tins or foil. From the first | t jj solely by its policyholders, \\ bite to the last morsel, it’s all equally delicious. } | Health and Welfare Statement Financial Statement You, as one of the policy- i| * Jus haar holders, share in the owner- ‘| , 3 . y, | DECEMBER 31, 1924 DECEMBER 31, 1924 | £ i Beions A) When you cut through the sanitary tinfoil ov || ship of all its investments; ‘ wrapper—you find Kraft Cheese as fresh, as ; Avett. $1,628,174,348.20 in its railroad bonds, its real- mellow and as palatable at the outer edge as H | ave 2 cases o1+.200,000 people } abilities || estate mortgages, its loans \ in the center. oy Reinsurance Fund $1,451,693,897.00 1 to farmers, loans to states, Ad . cities and towns for public q That is because all rinds are removed from y 32,694,131.49 improvements and similar | the country-made cheese before blending for /} 91,088,070.71 enterprises, the exquisite Kraft flavor. / 8,249.00 , You, as a part-owner of \ $1,628,174,348.20 over $1,600,000,000, /} i| an LYE el tyeavabaoves Aas 4% Increase in Assets during 19 196,774,929.93 should read the two state- \ 7 1: rains (ue vadatropstiige Ae Income in 1924. . 173,167.10 | ments on the left with a I Lipa erptad tt aera Re Se = et 803% Gain in Income, 1924... 60,861,502.85 | feeling of pride inwhat your { | Decline Metropottan Diph PMerieed ta ACs ree, merested 8d 515708 846.00 company has achieved. Y MA WilGrie PiVontsebedutecesivelece 53.1% Gain {n Insurance in Force in 1924...,.., 1,284,230,701,00 | The efforts as well as the ia eal GE eA Aad Oe "Gedied wpolerlden Wea 213,604,274.13 || assets of the Metropolitan J ; eple tou. ss srse eae «50,000,000 people || are dedicated to protection { )) {hoo 10 192hsserectsccrsess cvvascxvess-40,474,878° copies INSURANCE OUTSTANDING || against future want—to IW / P paleybaldeeia sone ine 2,565,295 visits eonmdacierate greater happiness, better Pecsipraeay cermin bee Industrial (Premiums payable weekly : health and longer life. \ Wii one kd bie 2,000,000 people Group. ssescesevcoscescoes . 802, 295.00 i } ‘Total expenditures for I ‘Total Insurance Outstanding/, ++ 10,522,484,769,00 Md f ® l / and Welfare Work Numbes y Polleyholders in 1924 eisai eeiitevan $027,001.25 ayy mpi ead 32,447,644 aly i Varieties ‘\ [ea La ancl eM) o vane ay ar) Presioene yi, i ss