10,000 FARTHINGS
INNKEEPER’S UNIQUE GIFT. Wehn does ten pounds equal fifty pounds? Ask the Salvation Army at Bromley, Kent, who received the solution to this problem when Mr Withycombc, a local innkeeper, handed over to them a canister containing 10,000 farthings, the life-long collection of his wife, who died recently. The weight of the canister was 501 b and its value about £lO. “This is the most remarkable gift in the whole of England during the self-denial week,” said Commandant Beevis, of th© local Salvation Army, who received the farthings.
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Evening Star, Issue 19551, 9 May 1927, Page 8
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9010,000 FARTHINGS Evening Star, Issue 19551, 9 May 1927, Page 8
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