Topeka Bank - Topeka, KS

Episode Information

Episode UID: 897526091267
Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: trust
Bank ID: 89752609 hash
Start Date: July 22, 1905
Location: Topeka, Kansas (39.048, -95.678)

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Model: gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest: 0644ac256330e348

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Description

Article refers to a local Topeka bank failure and losses at the First National but does not name the specific charter affected.

Events (1)

1. July 22, 1905 Suspension

Cause Details: Article mentions a local Topeka bank failure and losses at First National; no cause given.
Newspaper Excerpt: She was one of the losers in the Topeka bank failure. The Commercial club loss in the First National bank is about $850.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. July 22, 1905 The Topeka State Journal Topeka, KS

Article from The Topeka State Journal, July 22, 1905

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Article Text

Misder Innes iss a dinger Innes style, Un he holds a "vorld uf moosic" Innes hand; Und ve hope dere's choy und bleasure Innes smile, Fer dere's bleasant, choyful moosic Innes band. -Hans Zupp. Weatherman Jennings calls this cooler weather. The last Innes band concert at Vinewood will be tonight. The fellow who has the biggest feet is sure to wear white shoes. A baby girl was born Thursday to Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Schneider, 206 Quincy street. Wichita and Oklahoma City are tied for first honors in the Western association race. Miss Grace Miller, assistant city clerk, has returned from her vacation trip to Oklahoma. Albert T. Reid has been commissioned to design a large poster to be used in advertising the state fair. The joint at 110 West Sixth avenue was closed last night. It looked dark and forbidding. This is official. The new Independent telephone directory was circulated today. It contains the names of 4,200 subscribers. John T. Chaney, who has been seriously sick for five weeks at his home on Clay street, is very much improved. No, the people haven't any use for light music. They crowded Vinewood on the Innes' rag time night-well, just e 'cause. Colonel J. W. F. Hughes went to Kansas City this morning to arrange for rates to the launching of the battleship Kansas. Henrietta DeMoss, colored, filed suit in the district court yesterday for divorce from James DeMoss. She charges desertion. Mrs. Kennedy is very low with a complication of diseases at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Carrie Davis, 1215 West First street. Clarence Keller, clerk in the United States marshal's office, left on Friday for his vacation which he will spend visiting relatives in Missouri. Soot falling on the roof of a house owned by M. Grant at 1813 West Sixth avenue caused a small fire yesterday afternoon. The loss was small. The board of county commissioners held one of the busiest sessions of the summer yesterday. The commissioners are some time really very busy. The Highland Parkers will feel lonesome next week after the 6,000, count them, 6,000 people stop traveling through the Highlands to Vinewood. Innes' band receives $2,500 for the week's engagement at Vinewood. Even at this price it is the best amusement investment the city railway has made. A card sent out from Lebanon, Kan., reads: "Who the 'Devlin Tom Kelly' would miss the Big Doings August 31, Sept. 1, 2. Lebanon Anniversary." The Ottawa Herald says: Mrs. Alex Strodder, of Topeka, is in town looking after some of her property here. She was one of the losers in the Topeka bank failure. The Topeka Elks offer to donate the bottle of champagne for the launching ceremonies of the battleship Kansas, provided the governor wants to use that beverage. Major Anderson has figured up that the Commercial club loss in the First National bank is about $850. L. M. Penwell was treasurer, but he won't have to stand for it. Arthur Kane was in Lawrence yesterday on business. Barnum's circus was in Lawrence yesterday. Barnum and Kane in Lawrence on the same day was simply a coincidence. "Dad" Rust, the veteran Santa Fe engineer, remarked that 44 years ago yesterday he was under arms running toward Bull Run. He heard the connonading in the distance. Nettie Goshorn and James Morse were released from the detention hospital yesterday. This leaves two patients still in the hospital. All four have been suffering from smallpox. Major J. T. Anderson has written a letter of condolence to Grand Duke Alexis over the Russian losses in the Japanese war. The grand duke back in 1871 visited Topeka on a hunting trip, and the major met him then. W. A. Clark of the Topeka Milling company is the pioneer touch typewriter of Topeka. He learned it at the Standard Shorthand school fourteen years ago. This school was the first in Topeka to take up this method of teaching. The New York Evening Telegram, of Monday, had a cartoon labeled "Scotty Jerome" with Jerome scattering cigarette "butts" and advice and criticism broadcast with Governor Hoch looking on and saying "he's a cigarette philosopher." Gus Alberts has returned to the baseball arena. He will play third base tomorrow for the Clippers in the double header between the Clippers and the Flambeaus of the City league at Association park. The first game will be called at 2:30. J. H. Wendell of 142 Evelyn street will erect a new residence to cost $2,000 at that location. Another residence costing $2,000 will be erected by D. H. Forbes at Washburn Place. The