Banking Wealth and Reform Measures Reported
The comptroller of the currency reports a prosperous year for banks with total assets at 25 banks totaling 25 billion dollars, and eight bank failures. The piece covers thrift education in schools, and treasury plans to redesign U S notes to reduce size and plates from 12 000 to 200, with changes expected in about 18 months. The report highlights school savings banks, state laws on thrift teaching, and notes design and security improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Bradstreet Commercial Agency
School Savings Bank
J. H. Thiry
Long Island City
N. Y
Thiry
Massachusetts
New York
S. L. Oberholtzer
Philadelphia
Secretary of the Treasury
Laura Case Collins Dies at 86 in Maysville KY
Laura Case Collins author and philanthropist died in Maysville Kentucky at age 86. She was renowned in Kentucky for her writings and charitable work.
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Laura Case Collins
Maysville
Indemnity Requests From Across the Border Approved
A congressional report states 23 Americans wounded or bereaved by Mexican cross-border fire in 1911 will receive indemnities totaling 86 000 from Mexico. Claims of Mexicans injured in the United States were denied. Notable awards include Celia Griffiths 15000 for a husband killed and Joseph W Harrington 15000 for a brother killed at Douglas Arizona.
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Jospeh W. Harrington
Douglas
Ariz
Washington
Congress
Lawrence F. Converse
Edward M. Platt
Converse
Platt
el Paso
Tex
Adolfo Varela
Virginia Moorhead
Abunfio Seto
Edwin C. Heaton
Celia Griffiths
A. R. Chandler
Emma _ Larson
Elmer Crowe
Francis F. Williams
John W Weane
Joseph W. Harrington
William R. White
Combs Slated to Be Secretary of War
Washington reports the Democratic quartermaster says W. M. McCombs was offered the wartime cabinet post. Health concerns linger while Wilson shores up another batch of key appointments including Burleson at agriculture Daniels as postmaster general Morgenthau for treasury and Bryan for state.
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Washington
Wilson
W. M. McCombs
Agriculture
Josephus Daniels
Henry Morgenthau
New York
Treasury
McCombs
Bryan
Whitelaw Reid Improves in London Hospital
London bulletin reports Whitelaw Reid, the American ambassador to Great Britain, passed a better night and shows signs of improvement. Doctors say his condition remains serious despite the optimistic outlook.
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Whitelaw Reid
London
Great Britain
Government Sues The Butter Trust For Price Fixing
The Elgin Board of Trade and the American Association Creamery Butter Manufacturers are accused in a federal civil anti trust suit filed in Chicago. Attorney General Wickersham alleges a conspiracy to fix butter prices harming farmers small producers and consumers. The government seeks dissolution and injunctions against price fixing committees fictitious sales and improper use of market prices, asserting centralizers and cold storage firms dominate the committee.
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Chicago
Elgin Board of Trade
The
Butter Trust
American Association Creamery Butter Manufacturers
Wickersham
Hlisin Exchange
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OUR
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Wren Scott
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