Hume Shipping Co. · Office Supplies & Sundries · Folder, May 1922
[A buff-paper filing folder labelled in the Standing-Order Clerk's hand: "MAY 1922 — OFFICE SUPPLIES — Z. Standard, Standing Orders, 5th floor." Folder retained in the firm's basement at 122 Lake Street and pulled by the receiver after the 1929 collapse; the office's clerical effects were sold to a paper-stock buyer in 1931 and this folder surfaced in a binder of clerical curios at a Buffalo bookshop in 1976. The receipt described below is the third item from the top, pinned to the folder by a single brass paper-fastener.]
##### Contents — left-side index, in H. Loomis's pencil, dated 6 May 1922.
- pencils, Faber HB, gross of one — $1.20
- india rubber, Beach No. 3, dozen — $0.45
- Hume House — receipt, 3 May 1922 — countered $1,100 cash, by F. Byrnes. [DESTROY M/E PER OFFICE INSTR.] — —
- carbon paper, Underwood, ream of 250 sheets — $3.75
- blotters, foolscap size, plain, dozen — $0.40
- typewriter ribbon, black-and-red, 5/8", boxed — $0.85
- pen nibs, Esterbrook Falcon 048, dozen card — $0.30
- ink, Carter's Permanent Black, two pints — $0.50
Subtotal, May 1922 supplies (less item 3): $7.45. Approved on the cover, Z.S. — 31 V 22.
##### The slip itself — Item 3, pinned at the upper left.
HUME HOUSE — VANDERLIN ROW
Recd. this third day of May, 1922, of the bearer Sgt. F. Byrnes, Police Patrolman, of and from the Standing Order of E. Hume, Esq., the sum of:
One Thousand One Hundred Dollars ($1,100.00)
in cash currency, viz. eleven (11) one-hundred dollar Federal Reserve Notes, Series of 1914, examined & counted at the kitchen door.
Signed at the kitchen door, eight of the clock in the evening: M. Costigan, housekeeper.
[Stamped across the foot, in faded violet ink:] RETURN TO ACCOUNTS — DESTROY AT MONTH-END.
##### On the reverse of the slip, pencil, in a smaller hand — H. Loomis's, but later.
Mis-filed at the counter, 5 May. Mr. Standard signed the May 1922 supplies folder off on the 31st without opening it; he never opens supplies. I have not returned this slip to its proper place. If it is found here it is not by my hand.
The accounts say the receipt was destroyed at month-end. The receipt was not destroyed at month-end. The accounts and the receipt cannot both be correct.
— H.L., 1 June 1922.