State Bank - Kansas City, KS

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Start Date: February 11, 1896
Location: Kansas City, Kansas (39.114, -94.627)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: 766ce9e60ff0e3ca

Response Measures

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Description

Article (Topeka State Journal, 1896-02-11) refers to the 'defunct Kansas City, Kan., state bank' and says the State Bank Commissioner was looking after its affairs and expected to avoid appointing a receiver. No run is described; the bank is described as defunct/closed. OCR typo 'Kau.' corrected to 'Kan.'

Events (1)

1. February 11, 1896 Suspension

Cause Details: Described as 'defunct' in the article; commissioner handling affairs. No run or specific cause given.
Newspaper Excerpt: State Bank Commissioner Breidenthal, who was in Kansas City yesterday, looking after the defunct Kansas City, Kan., state bank thinks he will be able to get the affairs of the bank straightened out without having a receiver appointed.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. February 11, 1896 The Topeka State Journal Topeka, KS

Article from The Topeka State Journal, February 11, 1896

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Article Text

LOCAL MENTION. Lawyer Sam Kimble of Manhattan wants to go to the national Democratic convention as a delegate from the Fifth district. T. E. Bowman will address mothers on the subject of kindergartens, at the Polk street kindergarten, Polk street, near Fourth, on Wednesday. February 12 at 3. Mothers and their friends are invited. State Bank Commissioner Breidenthal, who was in Kansas City yesterday, looking after the defunct Kansas City, Kau., state bank thinks he will be able to get the affairs of the bank straightened out without having a receiver appointed. Judge D. M. Valentine yesterday afternoon delivered the last of a series of ten lectures before the law class of the state university on the subject of "wills" and the law pertaining thereto. The appellate court of the northern department is in session today in Representative hall. Editor W. H. Nelson of the Smith Ceuter Pioneer, is in Topeka today. Mr. Nelson has been traveling through the northwestern states for a big life insurance company during the last year, but he says he has now come back to Kansas to stay and will hereafter give all his time to his paper.