17672. Dollar Savings Bank (Painesville, OH)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Run Only
Bank Type
savings bank
Start Date
April 30, 1906
Location
Painesville, Ohio (41.724, -81.246)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
23cf08aa

Response Measures

Borrowed from banks or large institutions, Public signal of financial health, Capital injected

Description

Multiple contemporaneous newspaper accounts (Apr 30–May 1, 1906) report a run on the Dollar Savings Bank of Painesville that was stopped when the First National Bank of Cleveland sent $200,000 by automobile. The run was triggered by a lawsuit alleging accounting issues and loans in excess of legal limits (bank-specific adverse information). No suspension, reopening, or receivership is reported.

Events (1)

1. April 30, 1906 Run
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
A suit filed in U.S. court by William P. Engel alleging accounting issues and that the bank made loans in excess of legal limits (related to stocks held for the deceased Leland V. Prior).
Measures
First National Bank of Cleveland sent $200,000 in cash by automobile to the Dollar Savings Bank to stop the run.
Newspaper Excerpt
The sending of $200,000 to the Dollar Savings Bank of Painesville, by the First National Bank of this city, in an automobile, today, stopped a run on the former institution.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (10)

Article from Evening Times-Republican, April 30, 1906

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AUTO CARRIES RELIEF. Cleveland Bank Sends Money to Help Out the Painesville O., Institution. Cleveland, O., April 30.-The sending of $200,000 to the Dollar Savings Bank of Painesville, by the First National Bank of this city, in an automobile, today, stopped a run on the former institution. The Dollar Savings Bank was declared by the bankers to be perfectly solvent.


Article from New-York Tribune, May 1, 1906

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AUTO STOPS RUN ON A BANK. Cleveland, April 30.-The sending of $200,000 to the Dollar Savings Bank, of Painesville, by the First National Bank, of this city, in an alltomobile to-day stopped a run on the former institution. The run was caused by a suit in the United States Court of William P. Engel, of Deflance, Ohio, who asks an accounting with the Dollar Bank for stocks held for him by Lo. land V. Prior at the time of his suicide


Article from Evening Times-Republican, May 1, 1906

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AU o's SPEED SAVES A BANK. Carr $200,000 to Small City and Checks a Run. Cle reland, O. May 1.-The sending of $2 0,000 to the Dollar Savings bank of Painesville, by the First National bank of this city in an automobile yesterday, stopped a run on the former institution. The Dollar Savings bank is declared by bankers to be perfectly solvent. The occasion for the run was the beginning of a suit in the United States court last Saturday by William P. Engel of Defiande, Ohio, asking for an accounting with the Dollar bank and with a financial institution in this city of stocks held by the late Leland V. Prior at the time of his suicide. In his petition Engel made the charge that the two banks in question had made loans in excets of the limit set by law


Article from The Madison Daily Leader, May 1, 1906

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SENDS $200,000 IN AUTOMOBILE. Cleveland Bank Stops Run on Paines. ville (0.) Institution. Cleveland, May 1.--The sending of $200,000 to the Dollar Savings bank of Painesville by the First National bank of this city in an automobile stopped a run on the former Institution. The Dollar Savings bank is declared by bankers to be perfectly solvent. The occasion for the run was the beginning of a suit in the United States court last Saturday by William P. Engel of Defiance, O., asking for an accounting with the Dollar bank and with a financial Institution in this city of stocks held for Engel by the late Leland V. Prior at the time of his suicide. In his petition Engel made the charge that the two banks in question had made loans in excess of the limit set by law.


Article from The Bemidji Daily Pioneer, May 1, 1906

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SENDS $200,000 IN AUTOMOBILE. Cleveland Bank Stops Run on Paines ville (O.) Institution. Cleveland, May 1 The sending of $200,000 to the Dollar Savings bank of Painesville by the First National bank of this city in an automobile stopped a run on the former Institution. The Dollar Savings bank is declared by bankers to the perfectly solvent. The occasion for the run was the beginning of a suit in the United States court last Saturday by William P. En gel of Deflance, O., asking for an accounting with the Dollar bank and with a financial institution in this city of stocks held for Engel by the late Leland V. Prior at the time of his sui cide. In his petition Engel made the charge that the two banks in ques tion had made loans in excess of the limit set by law.


Article from The Topeka State Journal, May 1, 1906

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Auto Saves a Bank. Cleveland, O., May 1.-An automobile was the agency through which a run on the Dollar Savings bank of Painesville was stopped. The institution is said to be perfectly solvent but a run was started on the strength of a suit having been filed against the institution. The First National bank of this city piled $200,000 into an automobile, which, going at top speed. reached Painesville before the run had become serious.


Article from The Wageworker, May 4, 1906

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PREVENTS RUN ON A BANK. Money Piled in an Automobile Which Makes Quick Trip. An automobile was the agency through which a run on the Dollar Savings bank of Painesville, Ohio, was stopped. The institution is said to be perfectly solvent, but a run was started on the strength of a suit having been filed against the institution. The First National bank of Cleveland piled $200,000 into an automobile which, going at top speed, reached Painesville before the run had become serious.


Article from Wausau Pilot, May 8, 1906

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Save Bank by Automobile. The sending of $200,000 to the Dollar Savings bank of Painesville, Ohio, by the First National bank of Cleveland in an automobile stopped a run on the former institution.


Article from The Morris County Chronicle, May 8, 1906

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Cash in Auto Ends Bank Run. Using an auto to rusr $200,000 to the Dollar Savirgs Lank of Painsville, Ohio, the First National Bank of Cleveland stopped a run on the former institution.


Article from Wood County Reporter, May 24, 1906

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A run on the Dollar Savings bank of Painesville, Ohio, was stopped when an automobile arrived from Cleveland with $200,000 in cash.