Bank of Zwolle - Zwolle, LA

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Start Date: May 18, 1906
Location: Zwolle, Louisiana (31.632, -93.644)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: c77e6bd8

Response Measures

None

Description

Newspaper (The Southern Sentinel) on 1906-05-18 reports the Bank of Zwolle failed to open its doors and that Bank Examiner Thomas is conducting an investigation. No mention of depositor run or reopening; suspension appears to be government/examiner-triggered. Permanent closure is not explicitly stated but no reopening is reported in the articles provided, so classified as suspension_closure with some uncertainty.

Events (1)

1. May 18, 1906 Suspension

Cause: Government Action
Cause Details: Bank failed to open and state bank examiner (Bank Examiner Thomas) is conducting an investigation, prompting suspension of operations.
Newspaper Excerpt: The Bank of Zwolle failed to open its doors and Bank Exammer Thomas is conducting an investigation.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. May 18, 1906 The Southern Sentinel Winnfield, LA

Article from The Southern Sentinel, May 18, 1906

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Article Text

Mrs. F. M. Gates IS quite SICK this week. Editor Payne of the Dodson Times spent Tuesday night here. Henry Bernstein, Esqr., of Monroe spent Wednesday here. Born: To Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Wasson, Tuesday, May 15, 1906, a son. * A. B. Hundley, Esqr., in of Columbia spent Tuesday night this city. * The naked body of a negress wasfound in the woods in St. Bernard parish. A 15-year-old negro boy was at shot to death by a companion Baton Rouge. * * The new high school building at Rayville was dedicated, with an appropriate program. * * Minden has voted a five mills tax for school purposes, not a vote being cast against it. The Louisiana State Fair will open at Shreveport Nov. 17 and continue for eight days. Mrs. Bettie Smith of Tremont spent Sunday here with her sister, Mrs. L. R. Colwell. * A ship load of Italian immigrants arrived at New Orleans and proved to be a healthy lot. Mrs. G.A. Payne was called to Simmisboro Wednesday on account of the illness of her mother. The Bank of Zwolle failed to open its doors and Bank Exammer Thomas is conducting an investigation. Lavan Evans, 15-year-old boy, mounted on a biegele. was run down and killed by an electric car at Shreveport. * The Louisiana Railway & Navigation Company began laying track on the levee in New Orleans and the workmen were arrested. Wanted:-20 white laborers at once to work on Inmber yard and railroad. Good wages paid. Bradford-Kees Lumber Co., m18-2t. Ltd., Lofton, La. Gabriel Darby, a well to do farmer, lived within one mile of New Iberia for twenty years without visiting the town. and only visited it then because he was summoned to court. * The Shreveport Caucasian hopes that a day will come when there "will be a reasonable limit to governors' messages," so that people may have time to read them. * * Mike Welch was murdered on the streets of Hammond, and two young men are in jail in New Orwith believed to which leans charged IS be the the crime, outgrowth of blind tiger whiskey. There will be plenty of free water at the ball park today. The school closing exercises will open at 10 o'clock. Just what time the ball game will be played has not been decided and can not be till the Jena boys arrive. Deputy Clerk of Court S. M. Abel received a summons to apbear as a witness in United States Court in Chicago. He will leave Saturday for that city. He is to be used as a witness in the case