City Hall Sharks Driven From Salaries Crusade
City Comptroller Kerfoot declares war on money lenders in city offices and schools. The Municipal Pawners Association may take over loans on salaries, ending usurious 10 percent monthly rates. The Eagle newspaper pledges investigations while naming figures and offices involved in the racket.
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Kerfoot
Thas
Ftnols
Walker
Municipal Pawners’ Association
Engle
Richardson
Eagle
Padden-Richardson
Society
Ferhapa
Chicago
Grand Jury
United States Internal Revenue Office
Chicago Banking Era Celebrates Prosperity and Growth
The Chicago banking scene features leaders like John J. Mitchell Potter Eckels and John A. King with deposits and assets near 800 million. Clearances topped 5.5 billion last year, marking Chicago as a leading financial hub after successive panics and currency shifts.
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Chicago
New York City
Great Northwest
Middle States
CIA
Clearing House Association
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Boxton
State Bank of Hi Hols
John H. Kinzle
Gordon. Hubbard
Peter Prayne
Elijah K. Hubbard
Richard J. Hamilton
Walter Kimball
Henry B. Clarke
George W. Dole
Edmund Dickay
William H. Brown
LaSalle
Washington Streets
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Harrison
the Tribune
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Daily News
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Express
Express Company
Billy Onahan
The
Bullock
Mattlard
Heyman
McClun
Padden
Monroe
Murphy
Zuckerman
Webster
Brewer
Smith
Ohlson
Harper
Tolman
Card
Scutt
Montgomery
Kelly
McLean
Williams
Erd
Tomlinson
Valliston
Cessna
Cullen
Diedrich
Heckman
Blegel
Funk
Knowlton
American Mortgage Co
Chicago Mortgage Loan Co
West Side
Mills & Co
Wilkinson
Ilinois Credit Co
A. M. Smith
Reliance Loan Company
Merchants’ Credit Company
Hopkins
Wenham
R. KR. Employes’ Loan Company
N. W. Mortgage Loan Company
Model Loan Company
Fidelity Loan Company
Commercial Credit Co
William H. King
Carol Richardson
Eacott
Pleman
Card & Eacutt
McNally
Eagle's Expionage Corps
Chicago Bay
Chicago Police Department
Gov. Tanner
Col
Marcus Kavanagh
Fighting Irish
Ford
Chicago Zouaves
Ilnois National Guard
Police Department
Ripley Os
John A. King
Fort Dearborn National Bank
John J. Mitchell
Big Illinois Trust Company
American Trust and Savings Bank
James H. Eckels
Old
Commercial National
L. A. Goddard
Fort Dearborn
John VV. Clarke
Hibernian
Fred L. Wilk
W. T. Fenton
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