West St Louis Savings Bank

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: savings bank
Start Date: January 14, 1876
Location: St Louis, Missouri (38.627, -90.198)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: 10f19d9c

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Description

Article (Portland Daily Press, 1876-01-15) reports the West St. Louis savings bank closed its doors yesterday. No run is mentioned, and the piece says depositors will lose nothing. Date of closing inferred as 1876-01-14 (article says yesterday). Cause for suspension not given in the text.

Events (1)

1. January 14, 1876 Suspension

Cause Details: Article gives no reason for the closure; only states the bank closed its doors and depositors likely safe.
Newspaper Excerpt: The West St. Louis savings banks closed its doors yesterday. It is said the depositors will lose nothing.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. January 15, 1876 The Portland Daily Press Portland, ME

Article from The Portland Daily Press, January 15, 1876

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Article Text

MINOR TELEGRAMS. The National Republican committee called uppon the President yesterday. The Utah legislature has voted to admit E. S. Foote, a Gentile member from Tool, who had been excluded on account of a contested election. The West St. Louis savings banks closed its doors yesterday. It is said the depositors will lose nothing. A prospect is on foot to establish an extensive zoological garden in St. Louis. The legislature of Virginia has killed the bill appropriating $10,000 for the Centennial. Seventeen illicit stills have been captured iu Greeneville, S.C., with 15,000 gallons of mash and a large quantity of corn and whiskey. Five persons were arrested. Dickinson & Co. of New York, bankers, have made an assignment. Assets exceed liabilities Jos. Choate was elected President and Wm. Cullen Bryant Vice President of the Union League Club in New York, Thursday night. At meeting of jobbers and receivers of grain in New York it was stated that instead of the grain trade being diverted from that citv to Boston and Boltimore, it was steadily increasing. Thos. Boggs & Co., hardware merchants in Halifax, Joh Thompson, and Alfred Robinson of Chester, have assigned. Aggregate of jnagments with interest of the Alabama Claims Court so far is $6,444,592. It is thought the aggregate of all the awards made and likely to be made will reach $10,000,000.