AFTER TWENTY YEARS
A LONDON JAM'S GRATITUDE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 27. An extraordinary story of the selfsacrifice of a city caretaker aged eisrhty is behind a gift of £IOO to St. Mark’s Hospital for cancer. The caretaker asked permission to he present at the board meeting, and walked in holding a. Bank of England note. He refused to give his name, and. handing the note to the secretary, he said : “It has taken me twenty years to save this. The ,hospital saved my life. I've been putting pennies away ever since. I kept a special little box which 1 did .not touch for a year. I would then count the money and bank it. Yon cannot imagine my joy when f found that there was a whole £IOO. It is the biggest event of my life. My wife did not know until last night.”—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19186, 1 March 1926, Page 1
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149AFTER TWENTY YEARS Evening Star, Issue 19186, 1 March 1926, Page 1
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