GIRL'S SWEEP FORTUNE
WINNINGS IN THE DERBY.
HOLDEE OF £125,000 TICKET.
The unexpected placing of the first, three horses in the Derby race this year resulted in fortunes coming to holders of sweepstake tickets who had anticipated nothing more than the relatively small sums which go to those who have had the luck to draw a runner. The ticket for Felstead in the Stock Exchange Fund draw went to Miss Nita Helm, of Barrow, who is private secretary to the managing director of a firm of wine and spirits merchants in that town. The ticket is worth £125,----000. Miss Helm sold a quarter share of it. The ticket was given to her by her employer. "I have no idea what I shall do with all the money,'' Miss Helm said. "It will be suitably invested, and I shall carry on as I am. I am perfectly happy in my present employment. I I
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3258, 28 September 1928, Page 6
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153GIRL'S SWEEP FORTUNE Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3258, 28 September 1928, Page 6
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