Currency Law Changes and Bank Sector Shifts
The Currency Measure is praised as a major constructive law aimed at elastic currency and government control through national banks. It seeks to prevent reserve concentration in New York, ease stringency in hard times, and require banks to join the federal system, with penalties for noncompliance. Smaller-town banks may benefit from lower reserve needs and stronger liquidity, while state banks may convert to national status. many applications have been filed as the system is tested and implemented.
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Cur
Teney Williams
Banke 3
New York City
Wall Street
Arthur Reynolds
American Bankers’ Association
Teast
Beneft
Rom Arthur Reynolds
Des Moines National Bank
First National Bank
P Nt
Reserve
Federal Reserve System
Chicago
State Bank
McAdon
State Banka
Iowa
Reserve Bank
Reserve Bank Organization Committee
G. E. Stebbins
la Porte City
Grape-Nuts as Safe Food for Weaned Babies
Mothers seek safe nourishing food after weaning and Grape-Nuts is proposed as a practical remedy. The method involves dissolving one or two teaspoons of Grape-Nuts in hot water, stirring, then feeding the liquid with sugar, followed by softened Grape-Nuts with milk or cream as the child grows. Grocers sell Grape-Nuts.
Fortune Found Hidden in Asbury Park Fireplace
A young man near Asbury Park New Jersey, owner through his mother, uncovered a hidden treasure behind a brick fireplace. Silver and gold coins, likely buried over a century ago, spilled from a recess into a bag totaling about 15000 dollars. Speculation links the hoard to a shipbuilder from the colonial era to shield savings amid Revolutionary War forces.
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Asbury Park
N. J
Dear Old Soul Teetotal Convicts Contemplate Change
A near Dartmoor lodger asks a prison warder about the physical and spiritual health of inmates. She pleads to offer delicacies and tracts, but regulations bar it. She asks if they are all converted, and the warder cautions he cannot say, noting only that they are teetotal and non-smokers.
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Dartmoor
London
Accidents Due to Electricity and Prophylactic Burns
A historical note explains how electricity injuries show a prophylactic role of burns. Moderate voltages 100 to 600 volts can cause fatal cardiac fibrillation, while higher voltages 2,000 volts and up mainly cause loss of consciousness. Survival hinges on respiratory arrest and the need for time for the heart to stop.
Bank Clearings at Waterloo Week Ending Feb 26 1914
Waterloo bank clearings for the week ending February 26 1914 totaled 1 201 669 53 with daily figures 207 807 85 Friday 212 042 41 Saturday 260 227 79 Tuesday 264 748 37 Wednesday 266 843 61 Thursday Real estate transfers show deeds mortgages and chattel mortgages with weekly totals and year over year comparisons. Total instruments filed to date reach 873, down from 914 last year by 41.
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Black Hawk County Abstract Co
Waterloo Bank Clearings
Ugta Wienee Eens
Eeeeens
New Trade Letter Scatters Gloom Across Sectors
The March trade letter from Leavitt & Johnson National Bank notes improved conditions in most lines, with railroads lagging until fall crop movement. January bank clearings fell sixteen billion year over year but money is easier as operations shrink. January building up about 10 percent from last year, metals improving and expected to rise, crops loom as key for later months, unemployment falling for thirty days, anthracite collieries resuming and miners nearly fully employed.
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Leavitt & Johnson National Bank
Chauffeur unmoved as Paderewski rescue stalled
Indianapolis February 26. Pianist Paderewski and wife were saved from a snowdrift by a reluctant millionaire's chauffeur after realty dealer J D Scott identified the couple. Charles Wolliver refused to rescue at first, saying he would not go farther even after Scott urged him to aid the world famous musician.
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Indianapolis
Jans Ignace Paderewski
Paderewski
Speedway
J. D. Scott
Charles Wolliver
Thirteenth Street
Avenuee
Wolliver
Who fired first shot in Ludlow labor war dispute
Trinidad Colorado February 26 reports detail the Ludlow clash on October 7 between guards and striking coal miners. Operators' witnesses claim the first shot came from the strikers while miners' counsel pressed the guards fired first. The auto party included detectives Bell Belcher Larson Holt Chapin and Watson.
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Trinidad
Colo
Colorado
Congressional Investigation Committee
Ludlow
Walter Bell
G. W. Belcher
Larson
R. G. Holt
Deiagua
N. J. Chapin
Victor-American Fuel Company
W. A W. Watson
Candidates to Address Just Government League Meeting
Two or three candidates for city and state offices will address the Just Government league at its bi monthly meeting next Wednesday evening. Mayor Thompson will speak on city finances, H. W. Grout seeks the state senate and will discuss the good roads law. Attorney Lovejoy may address the gathering as a district judgeship hopeful. The meeting is set for the city council chambers at o'clock.
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Just Government League
Thompson
H. W. Grout
State Senate
League
Lovejoy
American Grand Opera Singer Dies in New York
New York Feb 26 Putnam Griswold American basso and Metropolitan Opera member died today in a private sanitarium after an appendectomy on Feb 10 complications. Born Minneapolis 1876 he first appeared as an operatic star in London in 1901 and was a favorite in Berlin where he was twice decorated by the Kaiser before whom he sang at the palace. His death comes as he was considered at the height of his operatic career.
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New York
Putnam Griswold
Metropolitan Opera Company
Mr. Griswold
Minneapolis
London
Berlin
Palace
Weather notes and visit by Miss Hazel Hall in city
Temperature readings for February 26 show a high of 30 and a low of 6 below. Historical normals list 1911 to 1913 with varying maximas and minimums. Miss Hazel Hall of South Bend, Indiana, is visiting at the home of Mr and Mrs EH H. Headford at 1015 Fourth Street West.
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C. F. Green
Walnut Street
Mr. Green
Hazel Hall
South Bend
Ind
City
Mrs
EH. H. Headford
Fourth Street West
Heal Fistate-For Sale Near Logan Ave Hast Park
Real estate ad notices a modern six room home with oak downstairs pine upstairs basement good lot owner leaving city price 3000 call Jas Gardiner Co 266 Also 110 acre Iowa farm near county seat on national auto road great white way 156 per acre compared with 175 elsewhere write Frank Dean West Branch Iowa Wanted experienced man on farm steady work Robt Nesbit Dunkerton Ia R 1 Box 52
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Heal Fistate
Hast Park Place
Logan Ave
Jas. Gardiner Co
Iowa
Robt. Nesbit
Dunkerton, Ja
R. 1
For Sale Catalog of Farm Equipment and Suppies
For Sale two 1 000 gallon cistern tanks ten five barrel round tanks with gate faucet one stock tank 3 x 2 ft 6 in x 10 one 1 000 pound platform scale one double work harness size 11 4 several other small tanks one light spring wagon two office heating stoves Waterloo Varnish Mfg Co Phones 298.
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Waterloo Varnish Mfg. Co
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