The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-05-15
If Fire Should Destroy Your Home or
Place of Business Tonight, Would
Your Valuables Burn?

You have, no doubt, priceless heir.
looms or costly jewelry carefully laid
away in bureau drawers, chests OF
hidden recesses in your home. What
would happen to them in case of a
destructive fire.
This place has burglaries now and
then-will continue to have them
Your home is not burglar proof; what
assurance have you that a visitation
| of this kind in one of its countless
phases is not already planned?
You have a will, fire and life insur-
ance policies and receipts for insur-
ance premiums; you have notes, deeds,
mortgages, leases, contracts, bonds or
stocks; or possibly you have bank GER
tificates of deposit, private CORES
pondence, savings bank pass books,
marriage certificate, abstracts of title,
trust investments, securities held in
trust as administrator, executor, guar
dian or trustee; what protection have
you for them from fire, loss, burglary
or prying eyes?
Of course you have somewhere an
inventory of your household goods, in
order that you may prove your claim
for insurance in case of fire. But
where is it? In the house that con-
tains the property YOU have insured
Thousands of business men in Balti-
more and San Francisco placed abso-
lutte reliance in portable "fire proof"
safes, but it is said that after the
great conf1agration which wrought
havoc in these two cities, sixty per
cent of these safes were melted, bent,
broken or warped open, and that their
contents were totally lost, while not a
single Safety Deposit Vault was seri-
ously injured. In the Baltimore fire
only a small number of these safes
came through with contents intact,
while many, which appeared unharm-
ed, had their contents burned to ashes.
If your place of business were Wis
tied tonight by a disastrous fire, how
soon could you get access to your
policies?
Have you not, like most business
men, certain papers of a very private
nature which ought to be kept where
no one but yourself or authorized
agent could have access to them?
When departing for vacation trip
freedom from care will be greatly en-
HANGED if it is known that valuable
wearing apparel, furs, silverware, rugs I
family relics and other valuable, bulky |
articles are safely placed in Safety /
Deposit Vaults worthy of the name.
Unoccupied homes are a favorite
mark for yeggmen and many travel
,r has returned to be filled with dis
nay at depredations committed.
There are millions of dollars in
securities outside of safe deposit box
IS, in iron office safes, in tin boxes,
he very portability of which is a
in desks, drawers
md trunks.
Simply inviting destruction.
And think of the diamonds and jew
Try and heirlooms actually beckoning,
n their insecurity, to thieves, prowl-
RS and dishonest people who have
asy access to houses.
The need of safe deposit box
ONES home acutely after these pre-
ious things have disappeared.
And don't you smile when you think
f the astute business man, sitting
at his desk, his iron safe
r terra Gotta vault crowded with pa
ers he can't afford to lose, and poll
les, inventories and records he will
eed quick after the fire-little know
ng whether safe or vault can with
tand what may be coming to it.
When you think it over you can't
elp asking yourself, Really, why
houldn't have q safe deposit box at
he First National Bank without any
orther delay!" y