LACONIA, N. H., November 19.-The Belknap Savings Bank in this place has suspended paying depositors for the present, and is calling in its notes. The bank bad $18,000 OD Spragues paper.
2.November 25, 1873The Spirit of DemocracyWoodsfield, OH
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LACONIA, N. H., November 19 - The Belknap Savings Bank in this place has suspended paying depositors for the present, and is calling in its notes. The bank had $18,000 on Spragues paper.
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.