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$1.50 Per YearJANUARY, 190715 Cents Per Copy
Watson’s
Jeffersonian
Magazine
THOS. E. WATSON
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THE
Meridian Life & Trust Co.
OF INDIANAPOLIS
ARTHUR JORDAN, President,
is a mutual old line legal reserve company organized and doing businessunder The Legal Reserve Compulsory Deposit Law of Indiana,which is acknowledged by the best Insurance Authorities to be the mostcomplete law for the protection of the Insured ever enacted in this orany other country.
Each year the Auditor of the State is required to ascertain the netcash value of all outstanding policies with three and one-half per cent.interest thereon, and the company MUST deposit in his office Governmentand State Bonds, and first mortgages on real estate of double thevalue of the mortgage, to secure the cash value.
Economical management as shown by the following figures hasplaced this conservative company at the head of companies in Indiana,its home state.
Comparative statement showing amount of Insurance gained in theState of Indiana, the home of THE MERIDIAN, in 1905:
| Meridian Life | $3,005,008 |
| State Life, Ind. | 738,358 |
| Reserve Loan, Ind. | 1,223,408 |
| American Central, Ind. | 2,285,556 |
| Inter-State, Ind. | 1,392,408 |
| Penn Mutual, Pa. | 276,249 |
| Aetna Life, Conn. | 438,706 |
A POLICY IN OUR COMPANY
Will “PROTECT” your home and family.
Will “CREATE” wealth.
Will “SAVE” your estate.
Will “GIVE” you a standing of credit.
Will “PAY” off your mortgage at death.
Will “FURNISH” happiness and peace of mind in life.
Will “SUPPORT” you in old age.
Will “SOFTEN” the pangs of death.
Will “GUARANTEE” a dividend not obtained in any other company.
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