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Actress Who Saved Nome Bank By Pawning Jewels Dies in Juneau at 80 Years JUNEAU, (AP)-A former New York actress who once pawned her jewels to stop a run on a bank died at her home in Haines Wednesday afternoon. She was Frances Muncaster, 80-year-old territorial pioneer who came here from New York 54 years ago. She was most famous in Alaska for saving the Nome bank in 1908. Hearing that the bank was threatened with a run in the economic panic of that year, she pawned her jewelry and mushed in a dog sled across Seward Peninsula with $10,000 to deposit. She died of a heart attack.