Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1889 — Information Wanted. [ARTICLE]
Information Wanted.
Stranger—Beg pardon, sir, but you have it in your power to do me a great favor, and one that I will gladly repay. Bankrupt (sadly)—l? I am afraid you have made a mistake. lamof no use to anybody. I have just failed for half a million, and with no assets. “So I heard.” “You know it, and yet you say I can be of a service to you ?” “Yes, sir; I beg you will not refuse.” “But what can a miserable bankrupt like me do for any one ?” “I want you to tell me, sir. how you got so much credit. lam from Chicago.”—New York Weekly.
