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Man Clings to Bricklaying After Death Won 54000
James Brown a hod carrier at Tome Mills Centreville New Jersey learns by letter of his $54000 inheritance from his father. He keeps working, saying a stock panic cost him $150000 earlier. Reporter details Brown as a robust 40 year old New Yorker who rose from Wall Street broker to bricklayer. a line of women seek him before he vanishes from the reporter’s sight.
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