Fresno Savings Bank - Fresno, CA

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: savings bank
Start Date: September 29, 1908
Location: Fresno, California (36.748, -119.772)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: 22e3fcbaac2bb9f1

Response Measures

None

Description

A single 1908 newspaper item reports that the recently incorporated Fresno Savings Bank suspends. No mention of a run, reopening, or receiver in the provided text. Given the abrupt suspension of a newly incorporated savings bank and lack of further information, I classify this as a suspension that likely led to closure; however, this is tentative due to limited evidence in the single brief notice.

Events (1)

1. September 29, 1908 Suspension

Cause Details: Article simply states the bank suspended; no cause given.
Newspaper Excerpt: Fresno savings bank, recently incorporated, suspends.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. September 29, 1908 Los Angeles Herald Los Angeles, CA

Article from Los Angeles Herald, September 29, 1908

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Article Text

COAST 200 Stanford students poisoned. New high explosive proves effectual destroyer at Atascadero field practice with three-inch guns. Fresno savings bank, recently incorporated, suspends. Bellingham, Wash., man confesses to murdering and burying wife. Oregon hunter killed by buck deer. Judge Henry Melvin appointed to succeed late Associate Supreme Court Justice Thomas McFarland.