Black text on gold background. 

Located in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, the Stone Harbor Yacht Club was built  in 1911. The Club failed during the Depression but was reorganized as The Yacht Club of Stone Harbor and funded by selling proprietary memberships. The 1911 building is used to this day by members and their guests.  

Image of sawed-off tree trunk with four large sawed-off roots in brown on white background with white text.

Woodmen of the World was an insurance company that began during the 1880s.  They would pay the widow of the deceased $100 and provide a memorial stone free of charge if the widow would agree to put the logo of the company on the memorial stone.  Typically the memorial marker was either in the shape of a tree stump or had a carving of a tree stump and included the images of the maul and wedge, the ax, and the Dove of Peace, along with the latin inscription dum tacet clamat (though silent, he speaks). The headstone program was discontinued by the 1920s as it became to expensive to maintain.

The organization began calling itself WoodmenLife in 2015 and there are now more than 900 chapters throughout the United States. They conduct volunteer and charitable activities that benefit individuals and communities. 

Black and white drawing of Wolf Man character appears over a yellow background with overlaid yellow text.

Wolf Man was a classic Universal Studios monster movie from 1941 starring Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolf Man, AKA Lawrence Stewart Talbot. Claude Rains as Sir John Talbot, father of Wolf Man. 

Side one: Illustration of square-edged ruler in gray, overlapping with gold protractor. Capital letter G appears in red in the space between. Off-white background. 

Side two: Interlocking American flags on poles. Off-white background. 

The square and compass are symbols of Freemasonry. The letter "G" is presumed to stand for God, though it may also refer to the "Great Architect of the Universe," [God] or "Geometry." 

An illustration of a World War I legionnaire appears over a white background. Blue text circes the top edge. Red outer rim. 

The American Legion began in 1919 as a patriotic veterans organization. This button likely would have originally had a red, white and blue ribbon attached to it and would have been given to veterans returning from WWI.

Button divided into quadrants of alternating light blue and white (official United Nations colors). United Nations logo appears in center in alternating light blue and white. Text on outside rim in alternating light blue and white. 

The study of stamps is called "philately," from the French philatélie. This word comes from the Greek roots of  phil-/philo- [lover of] + ateles [untaxed or free]. Previously, the recipient of mail had been responsible for paying the postage, whereas stamps now placed the burden of  payment on the sender. 

Five-pointed gold star on dark blue background. Text in gold at each point of star. Decorative embellishments in gold. 

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Illustration of flames in red and white on inverted black triangle. Solid red background. Text in white on each side of triangle. 

Dark blue text on yellow background. 

S.O.B. stands for "son of a bitch," an insult dating back to Shakespeare's time. 

"A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a
base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited,
hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a
lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson,
glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue;
one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a
bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but
the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar,
and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I
will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest
the least syllable of thy addition."

--King Lear, Act II Scene ii. 

Blue and white line drawing of a propeller plane on white background. Blue text on red upper rim. Plezol Bread logo in white and blue on bottom half. 

Alfred William Baker of Zanesville, Ohio founded a bread company which did business in southeastern Ohio under the trade names of Plezol, Butternut, and Miami Made Foods.