State Bank - Shell Rock, IA

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Start Date: January 13, 1925
Location: Shell Rock, Iowa (42.710, -92.583)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: e06e0d8ee048f6df

Response Measures

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Description

OCR errors corrected. Article reports the State Bank of Shell Rock 'closed doors Monday' and that 'examiners' were in—indicating an official closure/suspension likely by banking examiners and no information about reopening is provided. Therefore classified as suspension leading to closure. Limited detail in the snippet prevented more precise dating or cause attribution beyond government action by examiners.

Events (2)

1. January 13, 1925 Suspension

Cause: Government Action
Cause Details: Bank closed its doors and banking examiners were in attendance (official/agency intervention).
Newspaper Excerpt: SHELL ROCK BANK Shell State hank Shell Rock canitalized at closed doors Monday depositors to withdraw examiners in
Source: newspapers

2. * Other

Newspaper Excerpt: The bank was organized in Narmon is president . (organizational/management note)
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. January 13, 1925 The Courier Waterloo, IA

Article from The Courier, January 13, 1925

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Article Text

REINDEER MORE THAN PAY FOR ALASKA BUY Domesticated reindeer herds in Alaska are now worth 000 than the United States haid to Russia in 1867 for the entire territory the bureau of education announced in Its Tenort to the Secretary of the Interior Natives 0wn the matority of the reindeer which supply them since 1892 when the human began to import the animals from Sheria Plans are under way now bureau to establish that products from the which seattered thruout may transported to market of only adequate transportation SHELL ROCK BANK Shell State hank Shell Rock canitalized at closed doors Monday depositors to withdraw examiners in The bank was organized in Narmon is president.