SUSPENDED - B. F. Allen, Esq. 1875

ALLEN

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 4/6/2017 at 20:50:44

The Clinton Age, Clinton, Iowa, January 15, 1875

SUSPENDED
There are two kinds of suspensions in this naughty world-one by the presence of the rope and other by the absence of greenbacks. It must be next to hanging to go to bed at night thinking you are worth a cool million, and wake up suspended.

B. F. Allen, Esq., was considered the wealthiest man in Iowa. He was a generous, whole-souled banker, who thought he made money fast. But not content with a million, he sought to double it, and in the attempt he tripped and failed.

We hear words only spoken in praise of Mr. Allen. His misfortune brings to him thousands of sympathizing friends, who hope out of the wreck he will save something to start anew with.

His suspension will cause hardly a ripple in the monetary circles of the west.