Final Dividend
To Be Paid to the Creditors of the Defunct Fidelity Bank.
The closing chapter of the Fidelity National Bank collapse, whose president's wheat speculation and subsequent imprisonment had gripped Cincinnati years earlier.
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The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · Page 1
1 min readCincinnati, June 22.
Cincinnati, June 22. It is announced that on June 26 to 29, J. Frank Aldrich, receiver of the Fidelity National bank, will pay a final dividend of 14 per cent to the creditors of that ill-fated institution. Its failure, precipitated by the wheat speculation in Chicago of its president, E. L. Harper, followed by his conviction in the United States courts, his incarceration in the Ohio penitentiary for a number of years, made the matter one of wide interest. Mr. Harper since his release has courageously entered the battle of life and is said to be gradually prospering in the east.
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