Marie Dressler
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Leila Marie Koerber, known by her stage name Marie Dressler, was a Canadian stage and screen actress, comedian, and early silent film and Depression-era film star.
Dressler in 1930
Music for The Lady Slavey (1896) Dressler had her first starring role as household servant Flo Honeydew, a role she performed for four years.
With Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin in Tillie's Punctured Romance
The Scrublady (1917)
Liberty bond
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A liberty bond or liberty loan was a war bond that was sold in the United States to support the Allied cause in World War I. Subscribing to the bonds became a symbol of patriotic duty in the United States and introduced the idea of financial securities to many citizens for the first time.
1918 $50 4.25% First Liberty Loan
Joseph Pennell's poster That Liberty Shall Not Perish from the Earth (1918)
1917 poster using the Statue of Liberty to promote the purchase of bonds
Douglas Fairbanks, movie star, speaking to a large crowd in front of the Sub-Treasury building, New York City, to aid the third Liberty Loan, in April 1918