Uncle Sam to Embark in Banking Business Monday
New Year heralds launch of the federal postal savings bank system. It will operate as a federal institution, offering accounts from age ten, with certificates of deposit and 2 percent interest. About 48 post offices will open as postal banks January 3, one in every state and territory.
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Washington, D. C
Sam
Carzon
United States
Rency
Congress
Postal Savings Bank
Posal Savings Bank
Postal Savings
Hitchcock Md
de Fr
Federal
Union
Lawton Fire Totals 75000. Post Office Bank Losss
A Friday morning blaze in Lawton Oklahoma caused 75000 in losses destroying the post office City Drug Store Citizens State Bank and the Feneries Abstract building A missing drunken porter feared dead incindiarism suspected origin in the drug store Fire Chief Sheppard clashed with proprietor FE Tucker amid rumors the blaze started in the office of A March. Oklahoma City.
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Lawton
Okla
City Drug
Citizen's State Bank
Feneries Abstract
FE. A. Tucker
Sheppard
Multiple Local Incidents Include Arrests and Fire Update
Patchwork of brief items notes a man arrested after refusing to leave a car, a woman fined thirteen dollars for a disturbance, and a judge-related matter in which a Justice of the Peace handled a case. The report also mentions plumbers replacing water pipes after a freeze, Otis Spalding’s death and burial plans, a box fire alarm incident, and a new broom factory opening on Second Street. It covers county and city official activity, a deputy response, and plans to enlarge a Frisco line eating house. Some notes reference a Kansas City trip and a depot stop, with local officers involved in transport and routine charges.
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Congregational Codever
W. E. Beard
Pryor
Jane
John Swain
Justice of the Peace
Meredith
Thompson
Kansas City
McAlester
Otis Spalding
Gram
Second Street
Kansas
Oklahoma
W. C. Nixon
Mar
Bank of Driftwood Robbed
A robbery at the Bank of Driftwood in Driftwood Oklahoma saw the safe blown open early today and about two thousand two hundred dollars in currency taken. A posse with bloodhounds is in pursuit.
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Associated Press
Enid
Okla
Bank of Driftwood
Driftwood
Here
Excessive Express Profits Flagged by Iowa Commission
Des Moines Jan 2 The Iowa railroad commission ordered a reduction of five to twenty cents per hundred pounds in the maximum express rates for intrastate shipments by Adams American Great Northern Pacific United States and Wells Fargo. The commission holds that these carriers are earning excessive and unreasonable profits in Iowa.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Railroad Commission Today
Adams, American
Great Northern
Pacific
United States
Wells Fargo
Iowa
Mine Car Runaway Kills Eight In West Virginia Mine
Eight men died and two injured at Lyck Fork mine of Red Backer Coal Co when a mine car ran away toppling supports and causing thousands of tons of coal to collapse. Local rescue teams fought to reach trapped workers as officials investigated the disaster.
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Associated Preps
Bluefielda
W. Va
Lyck Fork
Red Backer Coal Company
Pour Backer
Murder Declared in Oklahoma Home by Bacteriologist
Dr. Lowis Turley of Norman, state bacteriologist, says blood from Dr. Burns home is human and hair found with it is human. A mutilated dog was found near the Burns home, and authorities believe the animal was killed there after Burns’s departure to Fort Smith, Ark., where he was married.
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Hennepin
Okla
Lowis Turley
Norman
8. C. Burns
Doctor Turley
Doctor Burns
Burns
Fort Smith
Ark
Mennepin
Mistah Thompson Displays Dapper Travel Gear
A man named Mistah Thompson showed off an elaborate travel ensemble including a Napoleon III style fur collar coat, a new black leather bag, a suit case with a tennis racket case and a gun case attached.
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Mistah Thompson
Napoleon
Oklahoma City Building and Loan Falls Under State Banking Dept
Guthrie Oklahoma December thirty one In answer to an inquiry from William Malone building and loan auditor of the state banking department Attorney General West ruled that the Oklahoma City Building and Loan Association would come under state banking supervision if it transacts any business outside Oklahoma county Local entities purely local in nature are exempt from the law from state control.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Gor Crude Ornor C. N. Haskell
Guthrie
John Mahoney
Huston
Charles West
W. A. Ledbetter
Haskell
Extra
Roy Hoffman
Chandler
Tulsa
James Menefee
Mahoney
State Supreme Court
White Temple Church
Third and
Broadway
Muston
William Malone
State Banking Department
Oklahoma City Building and Loan Association
West
Oklahoma County
Congress man M Guire to wed Mrs Ruby Mitchell
Kansas City Oklahoma congressman Bird McGuire obtained a license to marry widow Ruby Mitchell, daughter of Joseph T Ridgeway of Kansas City. The couple planned a wedding that night and immediate departure for Washington.
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Congressman M'Guire
Ruby Mitchell
Associated Press
Kansas City
Congressman Bird
McGuire
Oklahoma
Ruby
Mitchell
Joseph T. Ridgeway
Washington
Chewing Gum Blamed in Lovers Deaths in Cumberland
In Cumberland Maryland Charles E Twigg and his fiancée Grace Flosser died after eating candy and chewing gum found in Miss Flosser's parlor. Poison suspected cyanide poisoning though other family members who shared the candy remained unharmed. Autopsies and tests on the gum and candy to determine poison.
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Associated Press
Cumberland
Charles E. Twigg
Grace Flosser
Miss Flosser
Twigg
San Diego Plans Groundbreaking For 1915 Exposition
San Diego announces a three day program for the Panama California exposition breaking ground in spring 1915. Count Jacques de Lesseps will preside with Balboa park ceremonies and Pacific ocean discovery events. John Olmsted leads park plans as construction begins on the art museum. Invitations go to Pacific coast governors and notable figures. excursions will bring visitors. about ten thousand attendees expected.
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San Diego
Cal
California
Jacques de Lesseps
John ©. Olmsted
Balboa Park
Great Art Museum
Pacific Coast
United States
Col
D. C. Collier
Supreme Court Reopens Key Anti Trust Cases
The Supreme Court will hear the Standard Oil and American Tobacco cases, challenging the Sherman anti trust act, along with the Payne Aldrich tariff corporate tax provision. Justices face questions on commerce restraint monopolization and the federal reach over holding companies, with about 26 million dollars in taxes at stake.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Standard Oil
Supreme Court of the United States
Wickersham
Circuit Court of the
United States
Eastern Judicial District
Missouri
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Circuit Court
Supreme Court
Circuit Court of the United States
New York
Unis
United Cigar Stores Company
Imperial Tobacco Company
Tobacco Organization
Knight
Roosevelt
Tobacco Corporations
Tobacco Organizations
Circuit
Five Children Die In Minersville House Fire
Associated Press report from Pottsville Pa says five children of John Markasavage aged two months to eight years perished when an oil lamp upset during a New Year celebration started a blaze destroying three homes in Minersville. Markasavage and wife escaped but could not speak English. Rescuers initially thought no children were inside.
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Nn Associated Press
Pottsville
John Markasavage
Minersville
Here
Marka Savage
Crude Oil Price Advances in Independence Kansas
Independence Kansas January 2 crude oil prices rose two cents a barrel as Prairie Oil and Gas Co moved all grades higher. The new level stands forty four cents above the three year high, signaling a notable market shift.
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Associated Press
Independence
Kans
Jan
Prairie Oi and Gas Company
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