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Show One of tho most notable features of our financial fabric has been the remarkable re-markable growth of building and loan associations. It is only a few years since this co-operative plan of saving money and for providing funds for . home building was first tried in Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. To-day building and loan associations as-sociations are numbered by thousands in many states. . In the West particularly particu-larly they have about monopolized tho the field of the savings banks, and also for small real estate loans. |