Bank Filing Applications Under New Law
More than four hundred national banks and trust companies from nearly every state and large city have filed applications to join the Federal Reserve System. Treasury officials say the rush is so fast they cannot yet tally all entries, with major hubs like New York Chicago and Boston lagging but expected to submit soon.
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Washington
Federal Reserve System of Banks
Treasury Department
New York
Chicago
Boston
McAdoo
President Wilson Asked For Mine Horror Inquiry
The request from Charles Moyer, head of the Western Federation of Miners, for a federal probe into the Calumet Michigan mine disaster, was sent to President Wilson by Secretary Tumulty and forwarded from Pass Christian Mississippi.
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Associated Press
Wallington
Tee
Wilson
Charles Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Calumet
Michigan
Pass Christian
Mississippi
Tuunilty
Christmas Heist At Orpheum Theater Stuns NYC
In New York on Christmas morning four men drifted into the Orpheum Theater office after last night’s show and overpowered the night watchman. They knocked him down, bound and gagged him, then pried open the office safe and stole about two thousand dollars in receipts. The watchman was found tied as the theater opened.
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Orpheum ‘Theater
Todey
English barrister Hodges jailed for worthless checks
G C Clifford Hodges a self styled English barrister was sentenced to one to three years in prison for passing worthless checks at a beach front hotel in Atlantic City New Jersey. He had courted Miss Virginia Rouzee a New York girl whom he met on a boardwalk tango and was married after bail funds were posted. Police later filed further charges.
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Atlantic City
N. J
G. C. Clifford Hodges
Judge Cole
Hodges
Jashlon
Virginia Rouzee
New York
President Wilson Plans Burg Trial in Three Cities
President Wilson faced court after a guilty plea in a bribery case. He was held for further proceedings in Sewickley and Trenton, New Jersey, as investigators tallied the small bribe linked to the alleged scheme.
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Burg
Sewickley
Trenton
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Wilson plans nine hours rest and reserves board talks
President Wilson outlines recreation during Pass Christian stay in Mississippi. He will sleep nine hours nightly and focus on two topics: choosing Federal Reserve Board members and drafting a Congress address on government relations to big business and trusts. He will refine nominations after leaving Washington and explore a possible interstate freight information bureau to aid enforcement of Sherman law.
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Christian
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Federal Reserve Board
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Washington
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Commissioner of Corporations
Sealing of Cardinal Rampolo's Apartments Denounced
Rome December 26 The sealing of the late Cardinal Rampolo's apartments is denounced as illegal by some. The act lacked judicial authorization and officials' intervention, carried out by a notary at the request of Monsignor Norbisogno, St Peter's administrator, to protect potentially important church documents. No trace of the cardinal's will has been found.
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Rome
Italy
Cardinal Rampolo
Norbisogno
St. Pet
Pastor to use ads and film shows at Greenville church
Rev. J. Earle Edwards of the First Baptist church in Greenville plans a campaign of newspaper advertising and public shows to curb late-night street activity. He will present an engaging program in the church one or two evenings weekly and also introduce a moving picture show for parishioners.
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Greenville
J. Earle Edwards
First Baptist Church
Population rises at Moundsville Penitentiary to 1182 inmates
The West Virginia state prison at Moundsville held 1,182 prisoners on Saturday, the highest in two years. About 100 are federal inmates, a share previously higher when 1,299 total. After federal facilities expanded in Atlanta and Leavenworth, many prisoners were moved out, but crowded conditions again brought federal cases, now limited to around 100. Harry A. Hinesman of Detroit returned home briefly due to his father’s illness, visiting Gratton and leaving for Detroit.
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District of Columbia
United States
Atlanta
Leavenworth
Department of Justice
West Virginia
Harry A. Hinesman
Detroit
Mich
Ford Motor Company
Elkins
Gratton
Charles jQoudy
L. M. White
Long strike nears end at Phillips Sheet and Tin Plate
At a Christmas mass meeting in Steubenville citizens pressed efforts to end the two thousand worker strike at the Phillips Sheet and Tin Plate Company plants in Steubenville and Wierton West Virginia. The strike began last July over union recognition by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. Aged Mrs Harriett Van der Grift died Thursday near Mummond Marion County at 64, the area’s oldest resident, survived by several children. Miss Anna Kenny of Kentucky visits her father and relatives in the city.
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Mummond
Marion County
Anna Kenny
Kentucky
City
Tragic Christmas Crash Kills New York Woman
Mrs. Gertrude Lee daughter of Colonel T Harvey is killed and her husband Richard Lee Jr is seriously injured when a limousine and a taxicab strike them while crossing a rain slick street after an Christmas dinner. The taxi driver was arrested then released while police search for the limousine driver.
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Associated Press
New York
Gertrude Lee
Harvey
United States Army
Richard Lee, Jr
Lees
Mountaineers Open Battle With Polsee
Pineville Kentucky Sec 26 A reports a pitched clash between deputy sheriffs and mountaineers led by Ino Hendrickson near Hendrickson’s farm four miles south of Pineville. Hendrickson allegedly shot Deputy Haynes and, with his men, killed neighbor James Miller. Deputies McCoy and Smith fled to a vacant building as the gunmen attacked. Deputies Bailey and Wilson, with a civic posse, learned in an engine ride that George Hawn, one Hendrickson man, was killed in the first exchange.
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Ino
Hendrickson
Haynes
James Miller
John McCoy
James Smith
C. C. Bailey
John Wilson
George Hawn
Storm sinks two barges off Jersey coast
New York, Dec. 26 reports said two barges sank about three quarters of a mile from Forked River life saving station off the New Jersey coast this morning. A mast remained for a time and a man appeared on top of one barge but was later swept away and not seen again.
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Associated Press
New York
Jersey
Berliand Remains Prisoner of Czar in London
Boris Berlian, staffer for the London Bureau of the International News Service, still held in custody at Klemm despite police promises of release. Authorities sought his surrender of Mendel Berlias memorial, which Berlian was translating for INS. Berlrand said release was impossible because F. Aslett Wray had just left Kiev with the memorial.
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Boris Berliand
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International News Service
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Berlian
Mendel Berlias
Berliand
Berlrand
F. Aslett Wray
London Star
Kieff
Panic Over Italian Hall Fire Story Debunked
Grace McGarron of Calumet says the Calumet Hall tragedy alarm was false and the fire alert did not originate from the stairway. She notes the blaze began at the Christmas tree and a hall cry of fire caused the deadly rush. McGarron, a former Michigan senate proofreader and current Grand Jury stenographer, heads to Lansing for district attorney inquiries.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Grace McGarron
Calumet
Mich
Mountaineer Faces Christmas Night Murder Charge
Charleston WV December 26 Deputy sheriffs moved Thomas Dills to jail after he allegedly killed his wife on Christmas night in a Winifred area cabin. A blasting powder device exploded under her bed collapsing the cabin, and Dills was later hidden in a coal mine to avert mob violence.
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Charleston
W. Va
Thomas Dills
Ellis
Winifred
Labor secretary orders Densmore to Calumet strike aid
Secretary of Labor Wilson orders John D. Densmore to Calumet Michigan to assist in settling the copper strike. He notes the Christmas Eve disaster that killed seventy two, mostly children, warrants state investigation and peace efforts aim to end months of labor strife in the Calumet copper district.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
John .D Densmore
Department of Labor
Calumet
Mich
Copher
Train wreck kills brakeman on Bond grade
A 66-car train ran out of control on the 17 mile grade near Bond, killing brakeman H P Kirkpatrick of Keyser as it toppled down a mountainside. About 30 cars were upset, wreckage blocked traffic, and the exact cause remained undetermined. The story also covers typhoid death of lumberman William Harvey Batley, a Taylor County Democrat leader, with funeral plans and community details.
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Daily Sentinel
Bond
H. P. Kirkpatrick
Keyser
William Harvey Batley
State Senate
Postal savings branch mission shown in limits
The text explains that no person may deposit more than 190 in a calendar month and not exceed 500 in total, with 2 percent annual interest, aiming to attract small hoards not used to pay for commercial banks, revealing the branch’s intended purpose.
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Jbyaw
Postal Savings Branch
Trust to Increase Prices in Missouri Lumber Case
A Missouri Supreme Court decision upheld a trust to raise lumber prices and impose fines totaling 426000 dollars on 20 Missouri and four interstate companies. Ouster orders were suspended upon payment of fines and compliance with anti trust laws. Licenses of three non Missouri firms were revoked with additional fines. The ruling followed a commissioner’s report of illegal price fixing and production omissions.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Herbert Hadley
Supreme Court
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