Article Text
A BALTIMORE savings bank has deposits amounting to the sum of $5,000 and a run has been commenced upon it. One hundred and twenty thousand drawn was out in two dava.
7292. Baltimore Savings Bank (Baltimore, MD)
Bank Information
- Episode Type
- Run Only
- Bank Type
- savings bank
- Start Date
- December 11, 1878
- Location
- Baltimore, Maryland (39.290, -76.612)
Metadata
- Model
- gpt-5-mini
- Short Digest
8fb78fa6c0424506
Response Measures
None
Description
Single short dispatch (Dec 11, 1878) reports a run on the Baltimore Savings Bank with large withdrawals (one hundred and twenty thousand drawn ... in two days). No mention of suspension, receivership, reopening, or a cause for the run, nor any corrective measures. OCR errors in article corrected (dava -> days).
Events (1)
1.
December 11, 1878
Run
- Cause Details
- Article gives no cause or trigger—only reports heavy withdrawals (≈$120,000) in about two days.
- Newspaper Excerpt
- A BALTIMORE savings bank has deposits amounting to the sum of $5,000 and a run has been commenced upon it. One hundred and twenty thousand drawn was out in two days.
- Source
- newspapers
Newspaper Articles (1)
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