First National Bank of Newport
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- Jan 2, 1908Newport’s Bank Comes Through the Panic Still Paying DividendsDirectors of the First National Bank of Newport report a clean balance sheet, a 5 percent dividend and a 17 percent year despite the financial stringency.Newport, WA
- Mar 19, 1908The Fake Postal Inspector Who Robbed the Great Northern — and Got Away With Less Than $5A bogus federal inspector bound two mail clerks, rifled registered pouches, and slipped off the Oriental Limited at Spokane, leaving Newport authorities to piece together a brazen, almost profitless heist.Newport, WA
- Oct 1, 1908The Railroad That Was Promised Finally Gets Its Money$2.5 million in bonds are sold for the Idaho & Washington Northern extension to Metaline, and right-of-way agents find landowners ready to welcome a line expected to reach Ione by late 1909.Newport, WA
- Nov 19, 1908A 150-Man Spur for the New Fidelity MillCaughren & Woldson took the contract for three miles of Great Northern spur track to Fidelity Lumber’s new mill, with heavy rock cuts and a payroll paid through a Newport bank.Newport, WA
- May 12, 1910A Spokane Banking Combine Swallows Newport's First National BankThe Union Securities Co., which already controls 25 Inland Empire banks, buys into Newport's First National — and installs its own man as president.Newport, WA