Superior Bank - Superior, WI

Episode Information

Episode UID: 1459869891164
Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Bank ID: 145986989 hash
Start Date: December 28, 1896
Location: Superior, Wisconsin (46.721, -92.104)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest: 4e10e3c86e4a3cc3

Response Measures

None

Description

Single brief notice stating the bank failed; date interpreted from '28th inst.' in the article.

Events (1)

1. December 28, 1896 Suspension

Cause: Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details: Article states the bank 'failed', indicating bank-specific insolvency or failure.
Newspaper Excerpt: Superior Bank, of Superior, Wis., failed.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. January 2, 1897 The Broad Ax Chicago, Salt Lake City, IL

Article from The Broad Ax, January 2, 1897

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Article Text

PRÓSPERITY ABROAD. THE way in which the business interests of the United States are recuperating, after learning of McKinley's election, is truly astonishing. The following took the situation to heart on the 28th inst., in the manner and form following, that is to say: Superior Bank, of Superior, Wis., failed. George F. Grassel & Co., of Cincinnati, dry goods merchants for twenty years, assigned. White & Howe, retail shoe dealer, of Sioux City, Ia., croaked. The Stetson & Post Sawmill Co., of Seattle, Wash., closed, throwing seventy men out of employment. And on the 29th inst., it came to pass, as follows, that is to say: The Columbia Bank, of Minneapolis, failed to open its doors. The Washington Bank, of the same place, flunked. Commercial Bank, of Roanoke, Va., followed suit. Farmers' Trust Co., of Sioux City, Ia., busted. Adolph Scheyer & Co., of Leadville, Colo., a wholesale liquor house, dried up. Atlas Bank, of Chicago, and the National Bank of Illinois, found themselves short of dough. And the end is not yet.