Kansas City Safe Deposit & Savings Bank (Kansas City, MO)

Episode Information

Episode UID
2366084791260
Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
savings
Bank ID
236608479 hash
Start Date
December 17, 1904
Location
Kansas City, Missouri (39.100, -94.579)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest
d744c7439f116137

Response Measures

None

Description

Articles report a defunct bank with a receiver selling assets in Dec 1904; the actual failure occurred ~10 years earlier.

Events (1)
1. December 17, 1904 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
Assets of the defunct Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings bank of the face value of $1,000,000 were sold by the receiver for $400.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (3)
1. December 17, 1904 The Cairo Bulletin Cairo, IL
Article from The Cairo Bulletin, December 17, 1904

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Article Text

$1,000,000 IN ASSETS BROUGHT JUST $400. By the Associated Press. of Kansas City, Dec. 16.-Assets the defunct Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings bank of face value of one million dollars were sold by the receiver today for $400. -The failure of the bank ten years ago caused much distress among the poorer classes who lost all their savings when the institution collapsed. The officers of the bank were criminally prosecuted.

2. December 23, 1904 The Tupelo Journal Tupelo, MS
Article from The Tupelo Journal, December 23, 1904

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Article Text

Bank Assets Brought $400. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 17.-Assets of the defunct Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings bank of the face value of $1,000,000, were sold by the receiver, Friday, for $400. The failure of the bank more than ten years ago caused much distress among the poorer classes.

3. December 23, 1904 The Montgomery Tribune Montgomery City, MO
Article from The Montgomery Tribune, December 23, 1904

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Article Text

Bank Receiver's Sale. Assets of the defunct Kansas City Safe Deposit & Savings bank of the face value of $1,000,000 were sold by the receiver for $400. The failure of the bank more than ten years ago caused much distress among the poorer classes, who lost practically all of their savings when the institution collapsed. The officers of the bank were criminally prosecuted.