American AcornsSan Antonio Daily Light, 12 Aug 1904, p. 1: Petition Filed in Bankruptcy (Clarkson and Slayden on the page).
Image · dated 12 Aug 1904 · source: The Portal to Texas History, University of North Texas Libraries (digitized newspaper), https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1686747/m1/1/.
Transcription
Word-for-word transcription (spellings kept; uncertain letters in brackets).
PETITION FILED IN BANKRUPTCY
CLARKSON & CO., COTTON BUYERS ARE THE PETITIONERS.
Creditors Are Mostly Residents of Foreign Countries—Assets and Liabilities of the Firm—W. B. Clarkson Asks for Relief From Liabilities of Former Firm.
In the office of the clerk of the United States District court there was filed today a petition in voluntary bankruptcy by William Banton Clarkson, Edward Moritz Goldstein and Henry Clarkson, composing the firm of Clarkson & Co., and William Banton Clarkson, a former member of the partnership styled Slayden, Clarkson & Robards.
In the petition the liabilities of the firm are given as $174,599.56 with assets as follows: Bills, promissory notes and securities, $20,501.73; debts [article continues beyond the bottom edge of this crop — not captured further].
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- San Antonio Daily Light, 12 Aug 1904, p. 1, 'Petition Filed in Bankruptcy' · the original at The Portal to Texas History