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...proposed merging of the First Federal Foreign Banking Association with the Bank of the Manhattan Co., will, if ratified by stockholders of the first-named, unite one of the oldest with one of the newest American banks. The First Federal Foreign Banking Association was created under the Edge Act to specialize in foreign banking, and opened June...
...good name of the "John Harvard" and the reliability of steam launches in general were reestablished yesterday afternoon on the waters of the Charles, when the oldest coaching boat on the river came gallantly to the rescue of the "Class...
probably the oldest personnel of any in the country. Union rules require that when a consolidation occurs the senior members of each are retained. The Herald has in its composing room the senior members from the old Herald, the Sun, the Press. The Tribune's compositors are not young. The compositors of the Herald-Tribune will perforce be venerable if not hoary with...
Died. Baroness Matthilda Rothschild, 92, widow of Baron Wilhelm Karl Rothschild and "oldest member of the Rothschild family"; in Grunberg, Germany...
Died. William Armhold, 94, "oldest rabbi in the U. S."; in Atlantic City. Born in Schuchtern-Baden, Germany, in 1829; he came to the U. S. in 1853; founded a synagogue in Pittsburgh; was cantor of the Keneseth Israel Temple, Philadelphia, for 52 years; retired from active work in 1913. Said the Public Ledger (Philadelphia): "He was a leader in every Jewish movement in this city...