Pensions list shows cuts due to veteran deaths
The pension bureau report for the year ended June 30 1914 shows annual pension expenditures fell from 174 171 860 30 in 1913 to 172 417 046 26 in 1914. Deaths of Civil War veterans and widows reduced the rolls, with savings from administration totaling 171 14244 and ending the year with 7 658 35 left of the Congressional appropriation.
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Gaylord M. Saltzgaber
Saltzgaber
Pension Bureau
Congress
RAILWAY OFFICERS PAY CUT AT SOUTHERN RAILWAY
President Fairfax Harrison of the Southern Railway reduces his salary by XXX percent and asks officers earning over 2500 a year to take temporary cuts on a descending scale. Those earning up to 2700 will face a 2 percent reduction as part of a shared sacrifice amid retrenchment.
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Southern
Down
Fairfax Harrison
Southern Railway Company
Flo
Londer
New Cotton Measure Aims to Bank $250 Million Relief Plan
A House banking and currency panel plans a compromise bill to deposit 250 million dollars in national and state banks serving cotton and tobacco states. The measure allows loans to producers at up to 4 percent interest, backed by bonds or notes, with a 1915 sunset and aligned with Panama bond adjustments. It follows a October meeting where southern representatives formed a relief committee and crafted the bill.
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Committee On Banking and Currency
House
Bers
Federal Reserve Board
Festus J. Wade
Thas
Robert D. Henry
Texas
Lears
Panama
McAdoos
Aldrich- Vreeland
Bett
Senate
House of Representatives
United States
Congress
Armistry
Secretary of the Treasury
Department of Agriculture
Secretary of the “Treasury
Ita
Glass
Henry
Carter Glass
Houge
R. L. Henry
BW. Poll
North Carolina
K. T D. McKellar
Tennessee
JL J. Stephens
Missssisippi
0. Finley
South Carolina
J. J. Russell
Uruguayan Wool Offer Amid War Demand In America
In Pittsburgh and Philadelphia reports the steel market cools as output dips and railways struggle while Uru guayan consul Jose Richling offers American wool mills a chance to buy ten million dollars of Uruguayan wool this year. He notes the war economy opens export windows and Uruguay may ship more wool and related goods to the United States.
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Ifttsburgh
America
Philadelphia
England
Jose Richling
Europe
Uruguay
United States
Richling
Germany
Bankers Gather for 40th American Bankers Assn Session in Richmond
More than 1,000 delegates arrive for the fortieth annual convention in Richmond with expectations of 2,000 by tomorrow evening. Bankers from Chicago, St Louis, Denver and Seattle join routines that start with committee meetings and an agricultural commission conference, followed by an informal council club gathering featuring A J Montague Frank Trumbull Martin W Littleton and Sol Wexler. Local committees host automobile tours and an elaborate program for visiting bankers and their families.
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Richmond
American Bankers’ Association
Bankers
Chicago
St. Louis
Denver
Seattle
Agricultural Commission
Council Club
A. J. Montague
Virginia
Frank Trumbull
New York
Martin W. Littleton
Sol Wexler
New Orleans
Dividend Retrenchment Cuts Preferred Stock Dividend
The board of directors reduced the preferred stock dividend from 5 to 4 percent per annum. It had been fully earned before the current downturn, but the payment was declared not in cash but as deferred scrip to let all interests in the property share in the retrenchment.
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Way Company
Board of Dicreetors
War Brings Illinois Great Era of Prosperity
Chicago reports a wartime boom across Illinois with bumper crops and high grain values boosting farmers and mills. As war spurs demand, factories return to full time, shoes for European armies are ordered, and central Illinois supplies are sent overseas. Farmers rush stock to sales centers while first class animals move quickly.
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Illinois
Chicago
United States
Sindy
Europe
Ilinois
Pact for Neutrality Rights of Warships Signed in Panama
The United States and Panama signed a protocol to bar belligerent ships from using the Panama Canal Zone for three months during wartime. Acting Secretary Robert Tansing and Panama Minister Don Eusebio Morales announced the accord, aiming to maintain neutral obligations and protect canal interests on the isthmus.
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Lansing
Morales
Canal Zone
Republic of Panama
United States
State Department
Robert Tansing
Don Eusebio A. Morales
Panama
United States of America
Panama Canal Zone
Lisbon Gas Works Blast Kills and Injures 100
A Lisbon dispatch reports a violent explosion at the Lisbon Gas Works Saturday night causing a fire. About a hundred people, including staff, tramcar passengers and pedestrians, were killed or wounded. The blaze trapped workers inside the plant.
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London
Lisbon
Portugal
Reuter Telegram Company
Keystone Hardware Men See a Business Revival
Reading Pa Oct 11 At the Pennsylvania Wholesale Hardware and Supply Association convention held here delegates at an executive session discussed trade conditions. The visitors expressed the unanimous opinion that the country is on the eve of a remarkable revival of business and that the trade outlook is considerably brighter than it was a few months ago.
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Reading
Tennsylvania Wholesale Hardware and Supply Association
PREDICTS EARLY PEACE WITH TRADE INCREASE
Chicago reports optimism from 8 W Straus president of 5 W Straus & Co as he returns from Europe. He expects peace negotiations to begin early next year directed by the President and says such a settlement would revive American business and ease monetary conditions. Straus, who spent six months studying Europe, visited England France and Germany before war was declared. He remains optimistic about the U.S. business outlook amid possible peace.
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Chicago
Europe
W. Straus
W. Straus & Co
England
France
Germany
United States
British wool embargo limited to United Kingdom only
Raw wool import circles in New York were reassured by London cables stating Britain s embargo on wool exports applies only to the United Kingdom. Earlier notices had caused fears it might cover possessions beyond the seas including Australia and India.
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New York
London
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Australia
India
Marchand Sings at Vast Alexandria Sunday School Rally
About 2 000 scholars and teachers marched through Alexandria to Christ Church for a sermon by Rev E N Harding of Washington. A Moose Bazaar opens tonight in Richmond Theater with state and local officials invited. A colored laborer was shot at a road camp two miles south of the city. Frank Scott was wounded in the abdomen and his assailant fled.
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E. N. Harding
Washington
Christ Church
Washington Post Bureau
Hing Street
Alexandria
Wal
Washington Street
Christ. Episcopal Church
FR. K. Harding
Mount Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal Church
Frank F. Slaymaker
Alexandria Light Infantry
Fairfax Street
Cameron Street
Cameron
Wythe
American Indian Guard
Alexandria Musical Association
C. R. Strausburg
Edgar Carpenter
Son of
John Lee Aliison
Jesus
E. K. Harding
America
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Christ Episcopal
Emmanuel Chapel
First Baptist
Second Presbyterian
Payne Street
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Chapel of the Good Shepherd
Orange
Grace Episcopal
Virginia Lodge
Loyal Order of Moose
Richmond
W. F. Broening
Baltimore
Charles J. Linthicum
Woqghby N. Carr
A. J. Barchfeld
Charles ©. Carlin
Michael J. Gil
A. I. Casady
Baltimore Lodge of Moose
Wilmington
Fairfax County
Frank Scott
Scott
Walter A. Warfield
War Booms Exports Point to U S Prosperity
New York reports a surge in exports to Europe as war drives demand, with last four days up about 15 percent from a year earlier. Increased shipments, including a $5,000,000 weekly outflow to a war nation, signal growing orders, reemployment hopes, and a shift from gold to foreign exchange to settle debts.
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Central West
Western Territory
Alabama
Valley Furnace
Bessemer Iron
Ohio
Chicago
Mahoning
Shenango
New York
United States
Europe
America
Convoy Proposed for German Liner Kronprinzessin Cecilie
The Kronprinzessin Cecilie may be escorted from Bar Harbor to Boston harbor with a U S Navy convoy acting as scouts to warn away British cruisers while outside the three mile limit. State Department urgency exists though it may be unnecessary if the British accept the plan. It is hoped no obstacle would come from the British foreign office.
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U. S
Boston
Bar Harbor
Boston Harbor
State Department
Foreign Office
Vaudeville Managers Skeptical Of Pay Cuts Amid War
Washington vaudeville bosses report good attendance through wartime months and doubt plans by united booking offices and the Orpheum circuit to cut performers salaries. Managers cite strong local patronage while other cities suffer. They expect changes to be decided in New York and see Washington as an example.
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Washington
United Booking Offices
Orpheum
Roland S. Robbins
Keith’s
New York
A. J. Brylawski
Carmen
Five Thousand To Cathedral From Lane Will
Under the will of Charlotte T. Lane who died April 23 in New York City a gift of 5000 is given to the Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul in Washington without condition. The will filed for probate in New York surrogate's court disposes of a net estate over 100000 in bonds mortgages stocks and securities. Six nephews and nieces are named beneficiaries with legacies to several churches and charitable and social organizations.
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Washington Post
New York
Charlotte T. Lane
SS. Peter and Paul
Washington
Holland Writes On System Factor In Progress
A New York focused column argues Benjamin Strong Jr. will stabilize the Federal Reserve Bank district, likening his role to early Bank of the United States branch governance. It praises Strong’s leadership, notes the central banking duties of the Federal Reserve Board, and discusses wartime shifts shaping America’s finance and credit mobilization.
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New York
Benjamin Strong, Jr
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve System
Strong
Branch Bank of the United States
United States Bank
Philadelphia
Nicholas Biddle
Bank of the United States
Federal Reserve
Congress
Federal Reserve Board
Washington
Europe
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Bank of the
United States
Federal Reserve Banks
Alexander Hamilton
Federal Reserve , Banks of
Strang
J. Pierpont Morgan
George F. Baker
Dumont Clarke
George 5. Uoe
James Stillman
New Generon
St. Henry I Daviaon
Thomas W. Tamont
Fred J. Kent
Max Hay
Gates MerGarrah
Pra A Vanderlip
Charles Illili
Notice of License Expiration for DC Trades and Professions
The Commissioners notice from the District of Columbia Assessor warns that licenses for numerous trades and businesses will expire. It lists banks, warehouses, dealers, restaurants, theaters, and various service providers, requiring prompt renewal to continue operations.
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Assessor of
District of Columbia
Washington
Igtilers
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