Vanderbilt Funds Save Metropolitan Bank Depositors
George Vanderbilt and Erick Vanderbilt deposited 550000 in a New York bank to pay off all Metropolitan bank depositors after its suspension. Charles McNamee acts as adviser. The move aims to preserve the Vanderbilt name and public confidence amid the bank’s liquidity crisis and prior related matters. A Chilean warship purchase and Santa Fe travel rates appear in later items.
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Tacoma
Wast
George Vanbit
Willa K. Vanderbilt
Erick Vanderbilt
New York
Charles McNamee
Metropolitan Bank
Vanderbilte
Vanderbilt
Metropoliten Bank Ure
Vanderba
Deposhaerta Canteen
Sea Veces Bienet
BbUts
Metro
Philip V. Caesar
Mr. McNamee
Tapote
Liquida
Knowlege
Tantruction
Cannigerin
Cipital
Moetis
Nana Pati
Boxanien
Batra
Vetanesyart
Todd
Earl of Rosslyn claims Monte Carlo system to break bank
London report states the Earl of Rosslyn announced a system to break the bank at Monte Carlo and elsewhere. He invites subscriptions to a syndicate for three years or more, promising a share of profits after expenses. He recently broke the bank at a gambling house and has about $1,000 net, then plans to advance to Monte Carlo.
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Zari of
Rosslyn
London
Earl of Rosslyn
Monte Carlo
Hiplorship
Trenda
Itapi
Kur
Saul
Leiden
Ana Ie
Terrible night for boys attacked by highwayman
Two boys Seyberth aged 13 and Bonell aged 15 returning from cutting Christmas trees on Lowes creek were restrained by a highwayman who strapped them and gagged them with rags before robbing them, setting their cottage on fire. They freed themselves and escaped badly injured from the burning building.
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Aan
Port woman saves train and marries brakeman
Miss Edna Keener of Port Indiana will wed John Driver, a brakeman, after her act of heroism last summer that saved a Panhandle train from wrecking. She spotted a burning beetle near her home, waved her red sunbonnet, and signaled the lit train to stop, averting disaster. Driver, a crew member, became her fiancé through that encounter.
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Port
Ind
Gresess
Edna Keener
John Driver
Miss Keener
Panhandle
They Get the House for Elks Gift at Kansas City Fair
Kansas City dispatch reports HP Bowen and Arthur M Falconer won a $7500 house and lot donated by Elks as a special prize. Bowen and Falconer hold ticket No 486, employed by Van Doren Son at Baby Fish and Oyster on Grand Ave. Bowen married with a child. Falconer formerly commissary sergeant of Company M Twentieth Kansas.
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Je Fe
Arthur Falconer
Elks
Kansas City
H. P. Bowen
Arthur M. Falconer
van Doren & Son
Babr Fish and Oyster Company
Grand Avenue
Bowen
New City
Joan
Pean Street
Falconer
Packer
Twentieth Kansas
London
Une
Cutlan Securities
Prinen
Bardenyd
Miss Maude Bates Hosts Holiday Card Party in Topeka
Miss Maude Bates will entertain at cards this evening at her Western avenue home, complimentary to her sister Miss Bessie Bates who is home for the holidays. Progressive sixty three will be the game, with refreshments on the card tables. A long list of non guests invited includes many names, with a receiving party noted for Miss Edith Crawford on Clay street. Other social notes report Mrs John T. Chaney hosting a luncheon, decorations with Christmas greens and scarlet carnations, and several local residents traveling for Christmas visits and family gatherings.
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Maude Bates
Western Avenue
Bessie Bates
Jee" Aimes
Gritties Aten
Anna’ Herbat
Mine Sue Herbst
Louise Kellam
Katherine Fielshman
Marcia Spivey
Margaret Jones
Anne Player
Alice Lakin
Miss Meade
Bliss Addie Skinner
Anlabelle Troutman
Berenieler
Mary Daniela
Ies
Edi Snyder
Edith Guthor
Beatrice Foster
Lillian Kfoster
Jessie Myers
Anna Harrison
Lulu Ewaert
Harriet Stanley
George Fleishman
Els
Wallace Thom Stewart
George Snyder
Mi Hs Bute
Conries Watr
Ir ‘Walter Hayes
Freeman McCisiian Hapids
Jons
Boros Williaros
Henry God
Horace
Hugh McPariana
Celarence Poindexter
Gene Ware
Merrill Lindsay
Edith Crawford
Clay Street
Miss Ee
John T. Chaney
Tuncheon
Kansas
Alice Willard
Julia Larimer
Bisseet Sears
Maud Grimes
Mortoi
Charles S. Greed
Aguince
Ornoon
Annie Ewart
Chicago
Ewart
Strawbridge
Martha
McCoy
Pittsburg
Has
Iy McCoy
Clare Weab
Ike Lewis
Emporia
Topeka
Ulster
George Craw’ Biss
Anna Hagar
Hec
West Eighth Avenue
Charles Gofillan
Ned Osborn
Fifth Auines Street
Charles Wood
Louis No Judd
City of
Mexico
George W. ‘Veale
J.P. Pena M. L. Davis
Carbonate
New House
Eugene
Stotta
Stewart
Hasel Mulvane
Freeman A. McClellan
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Christman
Mra A. Fuller
West Sixth Avenue
A. A. Robinson
New York
George Knowles
Delaware
Ohio
Questa
Stanley
Ce Neste
Case R. Jones
Norton
Misa Clara Case
Abilene
A. B. Woolverton
Olathe Thessay
Oscar Woolverton
St Louis
Olathe
Mirs
George Stitt
John MacGuffin
Arrow Rock
J. Pe
F.C
Jay
Lawrence
John
Jol
Local social notes from Topeka and surrounding area
A flurry of holiday visits and greetings fills Topeka and nearby towns. Robbins plans a family gathering, Miss Tillson travels to Brookfield, and many residents including McNeill, Ryan, and Swearingen are noted visiting relatives in Kansas cities. Flowers are offered for Christmas and gatherings occur at homes on Topeka Avenue and nearby streets.
Father shoots son and daughter during family quarrel
Huntington, West Virginia December 22. During a family row at Central Hill William Lafferty shot his son and seriously wounded his daughter Rebecca after turning his pistol. he was overpowered by officers and jailed. Neighbors say the father visited to heal old differences, while the son reportedly began firing.
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Huntington
W. Va
William Lafferty
Rebecca Lafferty
Lafferty
Jall
Sterty
Hie Farsi
Ice house and pond work by Rock Island near Smith Center
Rock Island employs about 60 men two miles east of Smith Center to build a pond and gashed ice house spur from the main line. Sweeney of Belleville is inching along. Erection of a ton ice house is underway, with loading sheds for car shipment nearly ready. Low water may shorten crops but favorable weather could secure all desired. Full force worked Sunday to guard against warmth.
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Smith Center
Kan
Rock Island
Sweeney
Belleville
Seance Ends Abruptly After Ghost Steps On Tacks
In Austin Texas a series of spiritualist seances ends when a reputed ghost steps on tacks laid by doubters. Mediums and converts were present as John and Henry Jacobs sprinkled tacks, causing a split in the meeting and the seance to be interrupted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
John
Henry Jacobs
Flooded with old notes in Webster City
City swamped with notes from the old State Bank of New Brunswick. Issues dated 1844. Bills resemble Canadian notes. Denominations include $1 and $2. Bankers and businessmen caught by the counterfeit look.
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Webster City
Iowa
Dee. T
Old State Bank of
New Brunswick
N. J
Hinsey Let Out by Chicago Judge Dunne
Judge Dunne quashed two indictments against John A. Hinsey former secretary of the Knights of Pythian endowment rank. Perjury charges stemmed from alleged fake affidavits regarding fund management. Discrepancies in the affidavits and investigations led to the decision, clearing Hinsey of the accusations.
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Hinsey
Chicago
Judge Dunne
John A. Hinsey
Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythian
Dunnellea
Beermoney Donation to Beer Children Revealed
A brief item notes a $2,500 donation to Beer Children. In Utrecht on December 38, the Rev Mr Schaef announced the contribution and its intended use.
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Utrecht
Schaef
Polo for England American Team to Visit Old Country in June
An American polo team, likely largely from Lakewood, will tour England in June with polo association sanction. The squad includes Foxhall Keene as captain and players from Hamilton and Myopina, aiming to challenge for the Newport cup while competing at Hurlingham and other venues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Old Country
Hurtinghara
Polo Association
Woody Hf Herbert
Chairasan
Lakewood
Foxhall Keene
Messrs
Lawrence
Bury
John F. Cowdin
Cene Lekewood
Aguanis
Myopina
Hamilton
Econo Age
Urlana
France
Exeam
Hanelagh
Newport
George Wekah
Young Gould's Gift: Miniature Electric Car for Genie Gould Jr
In New Jersey at Georgia Court Lakewood the Gould family plans a lavish Christmas. Nine year old Genie Gould Jr will receive a fully detailed miniature electric automobile comparable to his father’s Panhard. The toy, built after his mother asked for a safer outlet for his auto enthusiasm, weighs 200 pounds and measures four feet long and two feet high.
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New York
Genie Gould, Jr
Georgiana Court
Lakewood
Santa Claus
Master Gould
America
Gould
Charles Plennet
George
Plennet
Jockey Ballard quits riding to train in New York
Jockey Ballard, back from England, says he is too heavy to ride next year and plans to train for J. DeLeon. He notes English tracks and horses outperform Americans, citing St Simon and the richer English training, while praising Danny Maher as popular among Americans in England.
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Ballard
New York
C. A. Ballard
England
J. DeLeon
St. Simon
Danny Maher
Amateur skaters eye national races on Vernon lake
New York reports the National amateur skating races to be held on Vernon lake New Jersey next month with Verona lake as staging site. Christmas day races at Verona lake will test ice and attract top skaters including Wray Mulligan Gibbs Swan and others. Weather conditions and ice quality could shape events.
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New York
Vernon Lake
New Jersey
David H. Slayback
Verona Lake
National Skating Association
Wray
Mulligan
Gibbs
Swan
Savoy
Langus
Jones
Linnbrud
Wood
Kearney
McDonald
Holiday Fare Rates to Santa Fe From Topeka
Christmas and New Year travel rates vie the Santa Fe fare. Tickets within 200 miles go on sale December 4, 25 and January 1, 1908, final return by January 2. Adhesive products listed and New Model City Ticket Office of Union Pacific RR at 25 Kansas Ave. Rigby’s offers Pixie orange slices and Christmas decorations.
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Santa Fe
Union Pacific RR
Kansas Ave
Pixie
Rigby's
Runaway Groom Averts Ill Fated Wedding in Quincy
William Doran a 34 year old bookkeeper from Gem City saw mills failed to marry Mian Nelle Parsons as planned at Parker Shields Mont Street Methodist church. A letter explained he would be out of town. The frightened bride learned of his actions and grieved. Meanwhile a separate note reports a distressed wife committed suicide by carbolic acid at Island parks after learning of divorce plans and threats to her character.
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Quincy
William Doran
Gem City Saw Mills
Mian Nelle Parsons
Parker Shield
Mont Street Methodist Church
Shields
Doran
Doras
Soran
Tomorow
Paris charity toys distribution and ostrich farming plans
Paris reports the prefect distributes 25 000 francs to buy toys for poor children in the city. The gym once bequeathed by M Vincenta of Victor Hugo continues annual gifts. In Nice, ostrich farming plans emerge with forty birds arriving from California, hinting at Riviera investment potential.
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Paris
Seine Des
France
Arondissementa
M. Vincenta
Victor Hugo
Riviera
California
Nice
Anal Nite Eee
Old Soldier Kills Son-in-Law in Bellevue
In Fitteburg Pennsylvania an elderly veteran, John We Moury, aged LF years, shot and killed his son-in-law Thomas Mawhinney at the Wehee home in Bellevue last evening. Mawhinney had reportedly abused Moury’s daughter, prompting the fatal confrontation. Moury went to the Ma station and surrendered, saying Mawhinney had driven a previous wife to death by her own hand and that he would not let a similar fate occur.
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Fitteburg
Dee
John We Moury
Inlaw
Thomas Mawhinney
Iwehee
Bellevue
Ariven
Towte
Fee
Bim
Missing German Woman Feared Murdered in Vancouver
Grace Powell a German living on Seventh Avenue Mount Pleasant Vancouver is missing for three days after a stranger beckoned her into a car on Thursday. Local searches intensify as police and residents fear foul play amid ongoing thefts and local disturbances.
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Vancouver
B.C
Mrn
Grace Powell
Seventh Avenue
Mount Piesaant
Bay Snd
Ordh
Thomas
Heale Burma
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Elizabeth Ryan
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