SWEEPSTAKE FOR A WAIF.
(By Electric cable—Convright). 'Aust. aud N.Z. .Cable Association.) Geneva, Feb. 24. A flower seller at Bergamo was surprised to find a baby girl, a year old. lying in a small box. A message pinned to her clothing read: “Good-bye, darling, we are too poor to keep you.” A number of people wanted to adopt the baby so the Mayor of Bergami decided to hold a lottery with .the baby as the prize. The winners proved to be. an elderly, childless couple. The subscriptions to the lottery have been banked as the child’s dot. Henceforth her Christian name will he Lotteria. 7
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Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 471, 26 February 1925, Page 5
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