Proxy for Bank of the United States Directors Election
A 1816 proxy document from a Bank of the United States stockholder appoints an attorney to vote at the first Directors election, with instructions to modify wording for corporate use and to have it acknowledged. Suspicion arises over piracy cases involving schooner Ramp of Baltimore, officers John S Mitchell and William Nines, seized at Williamsboro Va. for alleged piracy after sailing from Baltimore toward Buenos Ayres. Ramp carried six 1 1/2 pounders and 58 crew, examined for violence against Spaniard ships, not other nations.
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Bank of the United States
United States
John S Mitchell
William Nines
Baltimore
Williamsboro
Fisk
Buenos Ayres
Cadiz
Fifty Years Ago National Game Meeting and Local Notices
Fifty years ago in Boston at the Parker House the New England Association Of Bane Ball Clubs planned a June meeting. Also reported are local items: Philo Beach leaves a Norwich NY livery business, a work accident injures William Dorey, John Lawrence hosts a Steuben House surprise, factory chimney upgrades, and community notes on baseball games, licenses issued, graduation speakers, a will probate, Elmira votes, and Memorial Day flowers.
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New England
Philo Beach
Talking Machine Industry Growth Reported for 1914
Washington May 25 preliminary census figures show piano and organ output declined slightly from 1909 to 1914 while upright pianos with attachments and player pianos surged. Organ production fell in count but rose in value due to pipe organs. phonographs and records jumped sharply in both quantity and value. Major production hubs include New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Pennsylvania with notable gains in music rolls and disk records.
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Washington, D. C
Sam L. Rogers
Bureau of the Census
Department of Commerce
William M. Steuart
New York
Mlinois
Massachusetts
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Indiana
New Jersey
Wisconsin
Connecticut
Kentucky
Maryland
California
Iowa
Minnesota
Missouri
Maine
Vermont
Virginia
Arkansas
Delaware
District of Columbia
Nebraska
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Oregon
Illinois
Webster and McGirr Court Challenge Sparked in Norwalk
Twenty years prior Louis Webster of East Norwalk says he will meet Freddie McGirr for any reasonable purse at any time or place, after claims McGirr has backed out when chances arose. Norwalk News notes the rivalry and willingness to fight for a meeting. Cops on bikes aim to form a club for mutual protection as public belief doubts speed of police on bicycles.
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Webster
McGirr
Louis Webster
East Norwalk
Freddie McGirr
Norwalk News
Preparedness Is Coordination Says Cheney At Silk Dinner
Charles Cheney of Cheney Bros and Silk Association of America urged Silk Travelers at the Aldine Club dinner to prepare for postwar dangers. He warned prosperity may invite foreign competition and warned of a rush of goods after the war. Cheney called for safeguarding future prosperity and spoke as a missionary to spread the message nationwide.
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Charles Cheney
Cheney Bros
Silk Association of America
Silk Travelers’ Association
Aldine Club
Cheney
New York
Sues husband to gain possession of little son
New York May 25 Mrs Charline Daly Barnett wife of Charles F Daly of the New York Central seeks Supreme Court aid to recover her four year old son Charlies Days Barnett. Barnett admits he removed boy and nurse on April 24 and confines them in his Broadway apartment. He argues he has right to head his own house. Mrs Barnett says cruel and licentious conduct forced her to flee with child. She notes earlier separations and seeks custody.
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New York
Supreme Court
Charline Daly Barnett
Charles F. Daly
New York Central Railroad
Charlies Days Barnett
American Sugar Refining Company
Barnetts
Ormonde
Broadway
Barnett
New York Central
Aeene Larly
Ett
William Travers Jerome
Protesting Street Layout Clarkson Seeks Damages
John Clarkson testifies in common pleas court against Bridgeport city over street layout on Black Rock property on Gilman Street. He claims a 20 foot wide strip damaged value, appeals past appraisal awards of 1000 dollars, seeks 2000 dollars. Real estate dealers corroborate damage. attorneys Cullinan & Cullinan for Clarkson. city attorney Comley for the city. Judge Scott reserved decision.
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Black Rock
Gilman Street
John Clarkson
Scott
Common Pleas Court
Bridgeport
Clarkson
Board of
Wilson
Cullinan & Cullinan
William H. Comley, Jr
No Customs Duty on Smokes for Front
Postmaster Greene urges that parcels containing tobacco cigars or cigarettes from donors in this country to the armies in the field and military hospitals or ambulances in France are admitted free of customs duty if addressed directly and exclusively to the minister of war. The donor may include the fighting or sanitary unit address on the parcel, with final distribution at the military authorities discretion. Private senders from abroad to British expeditionary force personnel in France are also admitted free of duty.
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Greene
France
Five Acres Valued At Fifty Dollars In Bishop Estate
Probate appraisers Curtis and Edwards filed the inventory for John T. Bishop estate in Trumbull court. Five acres of land are said to be worth 50 dollars while the total estate is 1,568.55 with 518.55 in cash and a mortgage note for 31,000.
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John T. Bishop
Trumbull
George E. Curtis
George H. Edwards
Drill police recruits drill under Garry P Sanger review
Police recruits recently appointed and now drilled under the direction of Lieut. Garry P. Sanger were reviewed last night by Police Commissioner John C. Stanley at the High school where practice is held. Their uniforms are expected on Tuesday and there is likelihood they will march in the Memorial Day parade. The 1916 racing season opens at Belmont Park today. Turkey and Romania negotiate a commercial treaty. Air machinists molders pattern makers and boilermakers in Mobile Alabama will get an eight hour day with nine hours pay.
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Garry P. Sanger
John C. Stanley
Mobile
Ala
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Bank OF the U. Ss
Mgr
William Dorey
Eastridgeport
Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Manufactory
Hine
Dorey
Travellers’ Inoer Company
Providence
Steuben House
John Lawrence
East Main
Coleman Streets
East Bridge
Thomas Keyworth
John
Gil
Tomlinson Springs and Axle Company
Cannon Street
Patent Leather Company
Pete Hackett
Dennis Dailey
St. Joseph
T. B. & L. Association
New Haven
Daniel M. Rowland
Daniel
DeForest
Winsted Grounds
Winsteds
Fettle
O’rourke
Ivers
Foster
Billy Derveen
Waterbury
Mansfield
Bennedetti
Benedetti
Doherty
Osborn
Brooklyn H. S
Clarence Foster
Avon Park
Budall
Lockwood
Devitt
Bob Keane
Chris Stoehr
Christian Stoehr
Fairfield Avenue
Stoehr
East Bridgeport
Lessing Lodge
Michael
J. Lee
State Street
Joseph Michael
Reilly Street
T. W.reddy
Lexington Avenue
Henry Taylor
Wall Street
John Kaelin
Main Street
Edward L. Weldon
Atlantic Street
James A. MacGuinness
Walter Street
Gustave Bender
Belvedere Hotel
Annie McCarthy
East Main Street
H. A. Dupee
Peter BR. Fyndo
Deane
Weeks
Turner
Quinn
Kabel
Flanagan
Rose
O'Rourke
Burns
Messrs. Turner
Weeks and Wooster
Burns and O'Rourke
Harriett E. Judson
Papel Street
Henry W. Pettis
Henry Blodgett
Howard Hoyt Knapp
Enoch P. Hincks
B. F. Bronson
Edward S. Smith
Elmira, N
Pullman Co
John Reck & Son
Belmont Park
N. Y
Turkey
Romania
Hayes Fish CO
Water Street
M. J. Buechler
Middle Street
Alaska
Quality Poultry
Philadelphia
Bridgeport Public Market& Branch
State & Bank Sts
E. Main ST
Cart Wright’s
Losaruished
John Street
Fort Comfort
Russia
House OF Better Shoes
John F. Fay
Clark’s
George B. Clark & Co
Broad ST