Banks report giant deposits and rising resources in 1909 data
The comptroller of the currency compiles National Monetary Commission figures showing 25 million depositors for 22,493 banks with aggregate deposits of 14.106 billion and total resources over 21 billion. New York tops per capita resources, while the bank count has doubled since 1900 and deposits outpace voters by about 10 million.
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Washington, D. C
United States
National Monetary Commission
Mutual and Savings
State of
New York
Massachusetts
Nevada
California
Rhode Island
Samoan volcano visit cited as world wonder by professor
Prof Henry F Crampton of the University of Columbia, guest on the Alameda, calls the Savaii volcano a world wonder after travelers saw lava meet the sea to form a five mile shore wall and a crater rim lake 400 feet below. He spent a night at the crater rim and described the glare as magnificent.
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San Francisco
Cal
Savaii
Henry F. Crampton
University of Columbia
Alameda
Crampton
South Seas
Savali
Prof
George P Sheldon Indicted for Grand Larceny
George P Sheldon former president of Phenix Insurance of Brooklyn was indicted by a New York grand jury for grand larceny tied to alleged looting of the firm's treasury. He is critically ill at his Greenwich Connecticut home and no arrest has been made. Indictment specifies a misappropriation of fifteen thousand dollars in one instance with total losses estimated at a million or more.
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New York
N. Y
George P. Sheldon
Phenix Insurance Company
Brooklyn
Greenwich
Conn
Audacious Mayor Gaynor’s policy critique at Southern Society banquet
New York Mayor Gaynor, flanked by J Pierpont Morgan and Thomas F Ryan, used a Southern Society banquet at the Waldorf Astoria to condemn unfair financial interests and denounce the looting of Metropolitan Street Railway lines. Two car lords of steers sold at $10.50 per hundred pounds at Kansas City stock yards set a record, surpassing Chicago prices.
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New York
N. Y
William J. Gaynor
New York City
Southern Society
Waldrof Astoria
J. Pierpont Morgan
Thomas F. Ryan
Kansas City
Missouri
Chicago
Kansas Tax Meeting Set for January 18 in Topeka
The state tax commission fixes January 18 as the date for the biennial meeting of all county assessors with the commission to discuss tax matters for 1910 in Topeka Kansas.
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Kansas
Topeka
State Tax Commission
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Crater
Mayor Gaynor
R. V. Pierce
DR. Pierce
Burns
Herpes
Resinol Chemical Company
Baltimore
J. H. Kidall
Mt. Washington
Ohio
DR. Davis
Keeling
Defiance
W. L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
W.L. Douglas
W .L. Douglas
W. L
Douglas
Raison
Ee Parker
W. Towns
Fond du Lag
Wis
Gyps
A. S. Alexander
Farm Journal
Richard
Race Street
Philadelphia
P. O
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