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Show WAR SAVINGS STAMPS TOR NEXT YEAR Popular Baby Bonds to Be on Sale During 1919. Important Announcement Made by Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary of the. Treasury has determined upon the issuance of a new series of War Savings Certificates Certifi-cates and Stamps to be placed on Sale early in 1919 and will be known as the Series of 1919. The new series will have a maturity date of January 1, 1924, and in practically all respects re-spects will be issued on the same terms an din the same manner as the present Series or j.918. A new $5 War Savings Stamp, blue in color, bearing the head of Benjamin Benja-min Franklin, the apostle of saving, and a former Postmaster General, is in preparation The new stamp will be placed on sale, early in 1919. The same Thrift Stamps and Thrift Cards now in use will; be continued in 1919,-. and will be exchangable into new Series of 1919 War Savings Stamps payable January 1, 1924, in the same way. as the exchange has been made this year into the Series of 1918 War Savings Stamps. This announcement does not release re-lease any who have given their pledges pled-ges for 1918. They should be kept' just as though there would be no W. S. S. sold next year. |