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...defeated his Democratic opponent in the last Congressional election by nine votes. Died. Frederick Benjamin Haviland, 63, music publisher; of pneumonia developed from influenza; in Manhattan. Learning the business from the late Oliver Ditson, he founded a firm with the late Songwriter Paul Dresser ("On the Banks of the Wabash," which they published), brother of Novelist Theodore Herman Dreiser. During his life Publisher Haviland sold over ten million copies of songs in the U. S.; at the peak of his business he sold them at the rate of $45,000 a month. A best seller was "The Sidewalks...
Conspicuously first-in-line for a Federal loan was Wabash Railway, ineligible for help from the railroad credit pool as it went into receivership before the pool was established. Wabash had $5,000,000 worth of securities. On this collateral it wished to borrow $18,500,000. Though R. F. C. ruled that no application or loan shall be made public, the Wabash plea became known through the Federal court handling its receivership...
...roads, including Wabash, Ann Arbor, Seaboard Air Line will be ineligible for help from the pool...
...inducement to time payment purchasers of second hand automobiles at 25% to 50% discount, Studebaker Sales Co. in Chicago, offered to give away from 10 to 100 shares of common stocks including Allegheny Corp., Grigsby-Grunow Co., Wabash Railway Co., Remington Rand Inc., Curtiss Wright, Armour "A", R. K. 0. Corp., Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paid & Pacific Railroad...
...James Edward Taussig, Wabash president since March 1921, resigned suddenly last September, "to attend to personal affairs." His office was then filled by William Henry Williams, chairman since 1915. A month later Mr. Williams died suddenly of heart disease in St. Louis...