New Haven Railroad Lines Reach Debt Settlement with Banks
The New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad Board approves negotiations to take care of 20 million dollars of notes due May 1 with J P Morgan Co First National Bank National City Bank and others. Three million will be paid in cash reducing floating debt and 27 thousand new notes will be issued. The group has bought 27 million in one year notes at 5 percent for 99 1 4.
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New York
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
New Haven Company
Harlem River & Port Chester Railroad Company
Howard Elliott
J. P. Morgan & Co
First National Bank
National City Bank of New York
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Lee, Higginson & Co
Boston
Elliott
New Haven
Canada to Send Airmen to Front
Ottawa announces the British admiralty asked Canada for recruits for the royal naval air service. The Dominion government urges men aged 19 to 30 with military aerial ambition to apply to the Canadian naval service department in Ottawa. Arrangements plan flying instruction in Canada.
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Ottawa
Ont
British Admiralty
Canada
Royal Naval Air Service
Dominion
Canadian Naval Service Department
Moonshine in "Lucky" Stone Case
Government testimony at Captain Walter I Rand trial alleges a mail fraud scheme by the original lucky stone man. Rand defends with sworn statements claiming the oriental stone can recover lost jewelry, reveal true friends, heal the sick, provide work, and reveal secrets.
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Walter I. Rand
Aldrich
United States District Court
Captain Rand stone scam put under government scrutiny
Government witnesses described the Lucky Stone scheme as fiction aimed at superstition. They showed a testimonial letter was a joke, and detailed the captain's import costs and claimed profits, including a large luxury clientele. Inspection testimony also touched on related political and fiscal notes.
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India
Tremont Street
Postoffice
William E. Hurley
Victory for Anti-Saloon League in Senate
The Senate quickly concurred with the House to pass a bill banning liquor deliveries in no license cities and towns. The dry bill marked the major triumph on Beacon Hill this year and moves toward enactment with the governor to act within days.
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Pony Express
Castle Street
Senate
Superior Court
Suffolk County
Boston
Curtis Guild
State House
House
Beacon Hill
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Rand
J. A. Hofminster
Farina
Ill
Mass
J. L. Hofminster
Farina, Ill
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Captain Rand
Hofminster
B. L
Tmm
Daggarce
Wolpf’s
X ‘Gkin
Jarest
Hanover
Portland
Roxbury
Dorchester
New Y
New England
Houghton & Dutton’s
Madras
Greater
Axminster
Ea Nery
Beek
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