Lottery Tales of Luck and Loss Across Europe
A London Tit-Bits excerpt recounts dramatic lottery misfortunes and foiled dreams. It cites Italian prize stories where winners perish or face ruin, a Brunswick woman's hat swap costing £18,000, and a German banker chasing three’s luck at vast cost. The piece warns that superstition and haste in buying tickets often backfire.
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Rouimes
Uniteddom
Brunswick
Thilliner
Austria
London
Nobody's Mother in a Trial Moment
A young barrister questions a witness about her identity saying she is the prisoner's mother. The witness retorts she is a single woman, declaring she is Nobody's mother, provoking a sharp courtroom exchange reported by St James Gazette.
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St. James Gazette
Farreaching quip from the Tacoma Ledger
A witty exchange about feet and teeth appears in the Tacoma Ledger with the punchline that deep roots reach to the toes. The excerpt plays on a dentist joke framing feet as connected to dental roots in a humorous, regional newspaper tone.
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Nelly
Tacoma Ledger
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Blacklick
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J. A. Johnston
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S. S. Gibson
J. C. DeLaney
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Bert C. Lewis
Montgomery
Gardner
Pine
S. B. Griffith
John Edswards
Evan Long
Saitsburg
Alex
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J. A. Jenkins
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West Pann
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