IRISH SWEEPSTAKE
TWO CANADIAN WOMEN SUCCESSFUL WIN 150,000 DOLLARS EACH Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright VANCOUVER, October 26. (Received October 27, at 1.30 p.m.) Two Canadian women won 150,000 dollars each in the Irish Sweepstake. One of them, Mrs Don Sutton, wife of a British Columbia coal miner, was perplexed for a nom de plume, but when a black cat entered her home and refused to leave she signed “ Black Cat.” Dora Smith, an Ontario beautician, was the other. She bought a ticket against a reproof from her widowed mother on the grounds of extravagance. _________
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Evening Star, Issue 23099, 27 October 1938, Page 14
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93IRISH SWEEPSTAKE Evening Star, Issue 23099, 27 October 1938, Page 14
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