Bank Reopens Tomorrow After Brooklyn Home Bank Closure
The Home Bank of Fifth Avenue, South Brooklyn, closed February 1 and will resume business tomorrow under state supervision. The institution reports 42 days in charge cost $66 plus $405 in clerical work and $130 in misc expenses. no losses or deficit are cited. William E. Kay named president. J. W. Waller cashier. Rockefeller is a general creditor with a $160,000 claim from fall 1907.
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Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn
E State Banking Department
Dickey
Supreme Court
State Banking Department
Senate
Clark Williams
Bank
Jackson
Oriental Bank
Jenkins Trust Company
Hamilton Bank
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Home Bank
Wall Street
Banking Department
George S. Leonard
Home Bnk
William E. Kay
J. W. Waller
Rockefeller to Receive 25000 in Bank Failure Dividend
A check for 25000 payable to John D Rockefeller is among the distributions prepared by Receiver Hanna of the National Bank of North America as part of the second 25 percent dividend to claimants of the failed bank. The Controller of the...
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New York
Sub-Treasury
John D. Rockefeller
Financial District
Cortelyou
Savings Bank
John D. Rockefellen
National Bank of North America
Washington
Rockefeller
Hanna
Seycuates
Roccefeller
New Amsterdam Bank Pays First 25 Percent Dividend
Receiver Edwards of the New Amsterdam National Bank paid a 25 percent dividend to depositors amid a happy Broadway crowd. Many hotel and restaurant depositors, plus theatrical workers, benefited as assets return. Edwards expects another dividend before summer and eventual full repayment by year end. The bank’s main asset is the Bassmore Hotel property at Broadway and Forty‑first Street, bought by Charles W. Morse for the bank, with possible sale options in play.
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Edwards
New Amsterdam National Bank
Broadway
New Amsterdam
Ane
Bassmore
Forty-first Street
Charles W. Morse
Knickerbocker Sues for 132000 in U S Circuit Court
Knickerbocker Trust Company of New York files nine suits totaling 249000 in the U S Circuit Court in Boston against Albert S Bigelow Theophilus Parsons Russell Codman and other Boston and Lynn figures over guarantees tied to a 1500000 capitalized H W Bennett Silk Company loan. Attachments placed on real estate in Suffolk County with returnable date October 30.
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Boston
United States
Leany
Knickerbocker Trust Company of
New York
Albert S. Bigelow
Theophilus Parsons
Russell
Codman
Suffolk County
H. W. Bennett Silk Company
New Jersey
Trust Company
Robert D. Evans
Stephen M. Weld
Will Rejected in Probate Case Shows New York Ties
Surrogate Thomas refused to admit the 1898 will of Charles Griswold Spencer to probate, ruling the decedent resided in New York and that the 1882 will should be admitted as a personal property document. The decision traces Spencer’s life in New York and his intent to maintain American citizenship despite a France stay.
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Alexander Dumas
Thomas
Charles Griswold Spencer
Charles G. Spencer
Lorillard Spencer, Sr
Miss Griswold
Fifth Avenue
Elysée Palace
Paris
Newport
R. I
France
Leonard
Princess Vicovaro
Augustus
Lorillard Spencer, Jr
Spencer
Gournay
Mr. Spencer
New York
Europe
Greenwood
Seek lynched man's widow in Reno search
Friends of Joseph Simpson who was lynched at Skidoo for shooting a saloon man seek his widow. It is stated he left more than $25,000 and his wife would receive it if she applies for it.
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Reno, Nev
Joseph Simpson
Skidoo
Truelson Confession Details Stir Laporte Case Claims
Sheriff Smutzer notes a nineteen page typed confession by Julius G. Truelson, tied to the Mae O Reilly murder claim at the Gunness farm, with assertions about two buried bodies near a railroad. Rochester uncle John Peel provides elusive New York addresses and a letter purportedly from Truelson seeking Mae O Reilly’s fate.
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Laports
Ind
Smutzer
Julius G. Truelson
New York
Vernon
Texas
Gunness House
Laporte
Rochester
N._Y
John Peel
Mae O'Reilly
Conesus Centre
New York City
O'Reilly
Fifty-sixth Street
West Fifty-sixth Street
Thomas O'Reilly
Peel
Tex
Jonathan G. Thaw
Julius Truelson
Mae
O’reilly
Thought Poor Left $16000 In Death Inference Of Albany Case
Surrogate Van Der Zee handles a puzzling Albany matter. Catherine Grimes, dead in a squalid low town lodging, left bank deposits and cash totaling over $16000. An administrator was appointed, then relatives and creditors filed claims exceeding $6500 including funeral costs, doctor bills, nurses, meals, and undertaker fees.
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New York Times
Albany
van Derzee
Catherine Grimes
Fearful ex coachman arrested again amid Corwith threat
Parker Howard a former coachman to Henry N. Corwith was arrested at Christopher Street and sent to Bellevue Hospital for mental examination after threatening to kill Miss Louise Corwith, age 18. He previously served a year for carrying a concealed revolver, and a letter claim was denied by the Corwith family.
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Parker Howard
Louise Corwith
Henry N. Corwith
Bellevue Hospital
Bellevue
Corwith
Howard
Bridgehampton
St Wsiken
Christopher Street
Essex Market Court
Frederick H. Brown
Third Street
Brooklyn
Brown
Wilfred Paley
West 108Th Street
Fay
Miss Cor
Riverside Drive
Interest Stirs as Steel and Jones & Laughlin Eye Wabash Terminal
Pittsburg June 2 The United States Steel Corporation and Jones and Laughlin interests enter the market for the Wabash Terminal Railroad now in receivership. It would connect to the West and lake ore regions as the bondholders’ committee outlines its make up with Central Trust Company as chair and depositaries in New York and Boston.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Penn
United States Steel Corporation
Jones & Laughlin
Wabash Terminal Railroad
Steel Corporation
Wabash-Pittsburg First Mortgage Bondholders’ Committee
J. N. Wallace
Central Trust Company
Paul Morton
Haley Fiske
Harry Bronner
Myron T. Herrick
Gordon Abbott
George P. Butler
Central Trust Company of
New York
Old Colony Cee Company
Boston
Great Identifier in A New Thriller at Harlem Playhouse
A veteran actress Mrs. Frank EB Hull stars as Juanita the Child Bride in Keep Em Guessing a three week romantic melodrama. The Granada style plot follows Juanita from Tennessee to Newark with a deceitful North man and a vanished husband leading to a murder mystery and a morgue twist.
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Frank EB. Hull
Harrison
N. J
Harlem
Juanita
Juanita Gaston
Tennessee
Reynolds
Nita
Littie
Frank Hull
Juanita Rover
Frank
Hull
Aimene Ao
Lena Whitmore
Lamp Black
Agnes Youn
Agnes Young
Minnie Jeannette Gaston
Mrs. Whitmore
Dresser Suit Postponed to October Term
Justice Carr in Mineola Supreme Court grants a postponement in the Dresser shipbuilding suit. The defense may go to trial at the opening of the October term if they stipulate within three days, with Mercantile Trust Co and others named as defendants. Dresser seeks about 1.5 million dollars amid prior delays from motions.
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Justice. Carr
Supreme Court
Mineola
Dresser
Mercantile Trust Company
James Hazen Hyde
C. B. Alexander
C. C. Deming
John J. McCook
Alexander & Green, A. W
United Fruit Plans New Central America Service
The United Fruit Company announced a new fortnightly service between this port and Central America to begin soon. It disclosed the Charleston to Jamaica service would end this week due to increased Baltimore to Jamaica traffic. The firm also plans more wireless land stations linked with the New Orleans station at Panama Costa Rica Swan Island and Cuba.
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Central America
United Fruit Company
Charleston
S. C
Jamaica
Baltimore
New Orleans
Panama
Costa Rica
Swan Island
Cuba
Fire on Brooklyn Tower of New Manhattan Bridge
A small fire on wooden scaffolding 150 feet up the Brooklyn tower of the new Manhattan Bridge drew crowds along the river last night. Fireboat Abram 8S Hewitt spotted the blaze and doused it with a stream, likely started by sparks from a forge or furnace used by riveters.
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Tower
Newest Bridge
Brooklyn Tower
New Manhattan Bridge
Abram 8S. Hewitt
Opening of Naval War College Summer Term at Newport
At the opening session of the Summer term of the Naval War College in Newport Rhode Island on June 2 Rear Admiral Stephen B. Luce U S N delivered the address. Army and navy naval stations officers from the several corps in the vicinity attended.
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New York Times
Newport
R. I
Naval War College
Stephen B. Luce
Army
Navy
Election at Catholic Club selects officers and directors
In the Catholic Club at 120 West Fifty-ninth Street an annual election filled executive posts without contest. The Board of Directors saw a split with an opposition slate. James J. McGuire was re elected as President joining Joseph T Ryan and Charles Murray. New officers include Second Vice President Joseph T Brady Treasurer James I Burke and Directors Michael Blake George W Loft J Hurley Edward Connell and John Heady amid a stiff four ticket contest. An additional year term vacancy went to Andrew J Shian.
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Catholic Club
West Fifty-ninth Street
Board of Managers
James J. McGuire
Wall Street
Joseph T. Ryan
Broadway
Charles Murray
Broad Street
John
D.connolly
Arthur
Michael Blake
George W. Loft
J Hurley
Edward
Connell
John F. Cross
Louis L. Salt
Thomas E Fitzgerald
John Heady
Andrew J. Shian
United Copper Preferred Shares Sell at Prague Auction
One thousand United Copper Company preferred shares pledged by Heinze sold at auction in Prague through Bische Escompte Bank. The lot brought $23 per share, with the buyer identified as Geer who denied acting as Otto Heinze & Co. agent. The sale price near 26 was noted.
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Aucti
United Copper Company
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