£2000 FOR A BRIDE.
"£2OOO reward to the woman who succeeds in marrying old Fritz Hardicup," is the quaint announcement issued by the "supervisors," or Poor Law guardians of Grundy County, Ohio. For nearly forty years Fritz has been ar» inmate of the county workhouse, says the New York correspondent of a London journal. Thirty years ago a relative left him £600 to be put out at interest and held in trust "for Hardicup's wife." But Hardicup has an invincible aversion from marriage. Fbr years spinsters without number from the countryside have tried in vain to induce the old man to marry. Now the original £600 has increased to £2000. "I don't want the £2000," the old pauper remarked the other day to an interviewer, "if I have to take a woman along with it. If I had a wife she'd want to put mustard plasters on me or make me take a bath and do other things 1 don't want to " Apparently the guardians will have to provide for Fritz until he dies.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 77, 2 April 1910, Page 10
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174£2000 FOR A BRIDE. Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 77, 2 April 1910, Page 10
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