Ticket to a Fortune
FOUND IN OLD BOOK. Joseph Lacosta, student, was doing research work in the Vatican Library, at Rome, for a learned work he was writing on bygone Italian philosophers. While he was examining a volume by De Revisa, a forgotten philosopher of a couple of centuries ago, out fell a slip of paper bearing this : “Whoever finds this slip is requested to present it to the Court of Successions at Rome and to ask for the dossier 162 R.l Rome, February 5, 1784. (Signed) De Revisa.” The student complied with the re quest. After a long search, a dusty packet of papers was found. The seal was broken. Inside rested the will of the philosopher, who explained that, embittered by the neglect of his work by his contemporaries, he was leaving his fortune to some student who would one day study his book in the Vatican Library. His entire fortune was to go to whoever found the slip of paper hidden in the volume.
Arrangements are now being made by the Authorities to carry out hie instructions. Lucky Joseph will come into several thousand pounds.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume LXVIII, Issue 3485, 6 September 1937, Page 7
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188Ticket to a Fortune Cromwell Argus, Volume LXVIII, Issue 3485, 6 September 1937, Page 7
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