gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest
91db144839457b02
Response Measures
None
Receivership Details
Date receivership started
1915-06-03
Date receivership terminated
1915-07-19
OCC cause of failure
Fraud
Description
Most articles in the set refer to a different local bank (Ben Hill National); only Article 1 names Third National and discusses its receiver and reorganization.
Events (6)
1.December 17, 1907Chartered
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historical_nic
2.June 3, 1915Receivership
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historical_nic
3.June 3, 1915Receivership
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newspapers
4.June 25, 1915Other
Newspaper Excerpt
REORGANIZATION PLANS APPROVED Mr. E. N. Davis, who accompanied Receiver Scudder of the Third National Bank to Washington to present the plans for reorganizing that institution to the Controller of the Currency, writes home that the Controller has approved the plans...
Source
newspapers
5.July 19, 1915Restored To Solvency
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historical_nic
6.March 6, 1916Receivership
Source
historical_nic
Newspaper Articles (10)
1.June 25, 1915The Leader-EnterpriseFitzgerald, GA
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REORGANIZATION PLANS APPROVED Mr. E. N. Davis, who accompanied Receiver Scudder of the Third National Bank to Washington to present the plans for reorganizing that institution to the Controller of the Currency, writes home that the Controller has approved the plans of the committee and that he will return to Fitzgerald about Sunday.
2.May 8, 1916The Leader Enterprise and PressFitzgerald, GA
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Washington ,D. C., March 6th, 1915. Notice is hereby given to all persons who may have claims again the "Ben Hill Nationl Bank, of Fitzgerald, Ga.," that the same must be presented to Christopher L. Williams, Receiver, with the legal proof thereof, within three months from this date, or they may be disallowed. JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS Comptroller of the Currency M-d-May 29.
3.December 13, 1916The Leader Enterprise and PressFitzgerald, GA
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BANK NOTICE Having sold the Ben Hill National. Bank Building and as the purchasers will take possession December 31st notice is hereby given to all parties having personal papers or documents here in the bank to remove same on or before December 27th, 1916. C. L. WILLIAMS, Receiver. 2t Ben Hill National Bank.
4.December 18, 1916The Leader Enterprise and PressFitzgerald, GA
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BANK NOTICE Having sold the Ben Hill National Bank Building and as the purchasers will take possession December 31st notice is hereby given to all parties having personal papers or documents here in the bank to remove same on or before December 27th, 1916. C. L. WILLIAMS, Receiver. 2t Ben Hill National Bank.
5.December 27, 1916The Leader Enterprise and PressFitzgerald, GA
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BEN HILL NATIONAL PAYS FIRST INSTALLMENT TO DEPOSITORS The receiver of the Ben Hill National Bank gladdened the hearts of the depositors of the defunct Ben Hill National by the announcement of a 30 per cent dividend Tuesday.
6.January 3, 1917The Leader Enterprise and PressFitzgerald, GA
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Receiver C.L. Williams, of the Ben Hill National, has given possession to the recent purchasers of the bank building and has removed the records and effects of the bank into the office building of Mr. J. M. McDonald. immediately south of the Ben Hill Bank building where the affairs of the defunct bank will be closed up.
7.March 9, 1917The Leader Enterprise and PressFitzgerald, GA
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'GENE KEEFER APPOINTED AS RECEIVER Atty. Eugene Keefer was appointed receiver for the property of Mrs. Mary L. Thompson, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, located in this city in the case of C.L. Williams. receiver for the Ben Hill National Bank, vs. Mary L. Thompson.
8.April 6, 1917The Leader Enterprise and PressFitzgerald, GA
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C. L. Williams. receiver for the Ben Hill National bank. has declared the second dividend for the former depositors of that bank. The amount of this dividend is 20 per cent. making the total paid out thus far 50 per cent. on deposits.
9.April 13, 1917The Leader Enterprise and PressFitzgerald, GA
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# 2ND DIVIDEND ANNOUNCED
Receiver C. L. Williams announces that the second dividend of 20 per cent will be ready for distribution to the former depositors of the Ben Hill National Bank by April 16th.
Mr. Mercer Addison, of Leary, is spending a few days in the city on business.
10.November 9, 1917The Leader Enterprise and PressFitzgerald, GA
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cash, between ten and four o'clock on November 15, 1917, at bank building of Ben Hill National Bank in city of Fitzgerald, Ga., following property: West thirty feet of lots one and two, square five, block eleven, upon which is located the bank building also personal property contained in said building and all fixtures located in the same. This Nov. 9, 1917. C.L. Williams, Receiver.
Bank runs are almost always and everywhere a deterioration of bank fundamentals.
But not for you.
You are the measure-zero exception: great fundamentals, solid bank, and yet the Diamond Dybvig fairy spread its rumor. Depositors woke up. Your collateral was not prepositioned. The Clearinghouse had it for you.
Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. Go directly to jail… or worse.