Farmers State Bank

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Start Date: September 20, 1912
Location: Turon, Kansas (37.807, -98.427)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: f95a6a57

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Description

Article (dated 1912-09-20) reports a fire at Turon, Kansas that destroyed the Farmers' State bank. No run is mentioned; the bank was physically destroyed by fire and appears permanently closed. Cause classified as 'other' (fire).

Events (1)

1. September 20, 1912 Suspension

Cause Details: Bank building destroyed by a fire in Turon, Kansas; physical destruction forced suspension/closure.
Newspaper Excerpt: Fire at Turon, Kan., destroyed the Farmers' State bank, Ely Mercantile Company, cafe-restaurant and the Turon garage.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. September 20, 1912 The Springfield Herald Springfield, CO

Article from The Springfield Herald, September 20, 1912

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Article Text

NEWS TO DATE IN PARAGRAPHS CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD. DURING THE PAST WEEK RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY PEOPLE. Western Newspaper Union News Service. WESTERN. A strike of 7,000 miners in the copper fields of Bingham, Utah, may be called. The famous ax murderer killed Martin Thompson, his wife and little child, six miles from Council Bluffs, Iowa. time in a For the the third high week when beeves broke price record a carload sold at $10.90 on the Chicago market. Duluth citizens walked to work, for the strike of street car employés had effectually tied up the system and not a car was run. The Progressive convention of Washington nominated a state ticket headed by Robert T. Hodge of Seattle for the governorship. Progressive party of Utah held convention at its The first Ogden and Nephi nominated a state ticket headed by L. Morris of Salt Lake for governor. Mrs. Francis W. Axtell of Ballinga in the election in of ham primary won Republican nomination the state Washington for member of the Legislature. Fire at Turon, Kan., destroyed the Farmers' State bank, Ely Mercantile Company, cale-restaurant and the Turon garage. Total loss $60,000; insurance, $30,000. The contest brought by the Taft presidential electors to get the Rooseoff the before the was velt electors started- Republican state contest ticket board at Topeka, Kansas. A Republican ticket. made up entirewomen candidates, will be in the field in placed ly of Idaho this and fall against the regular Republican Progressive tickets. The forty-sixth national encamp ment of the Grand Army of the Republic took place at Los Angeles with ideal weather. Over 10,000 veterans, twenty-six bands and drum corps of the Civil war participated. That Dan Cupid was aboard many of A. R. special and to visitors the G. delegates trains the bearing forty- indisixth annual encampment was cated by the 104 marriage licenses issued in one day in Los Angeles. A reward of $1,000 was offered by Governor W. R. Stubbs of Kansas to who shall a cure any days person present practical within for thirty the disease which, within a month, has killed more than 6,000 horses in Kansas. The infatuation of the Rev. W. T. Dunn, 46 years old and married, pastor of the Dewey Avenue Presbyterian church of Granite City, Ill., a suburb of St. Louis, for Miss Estelle Massey, 19 years old, his organist, cost him his pastorate. Miss Ximena McGlashan of Truckee, is a butterfly farmer and at California, is making money it. In the last and six weeks she has propagated sold 6,200 mounted butterflies, for which she received $310, or 5 cents apiece, earning more than $50 a week. If the Roosev elt-Johnson electors named by the Progressive state campaign committee are elected at the in Mrs. of Los polls lins Porter November, Angeles Florence will be Col- the first woman in the history of the nation to vote for a President of the United States.