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Evening Star, Issue 19778, 31 January 1928, Page 9

The auctioneer, who had been whispering excitedly to a man in his audience, held up a hand for silence. “ t wish to announce,” he said, “that a gentleman here has had the misfortune to lose a wallet containing five hundred pounds. He tells me that a -award of twenty-five pounds will be given to anyone returning it.” After n silence a man in the crowd shouted: “I’ll give thirty pounds 1”