TWO MILLIONAIRES.
STRIKING CONTRAST. NEAY YORK, Oct. 2. Two millionaires are the central figures in the news stories to-day. Edward Washburn, an aged multimillionaire ice manufacturer, who had been missing for a week, was found acting as clerk in a grocer’s store at 20 dollars (£4) per week. He refused to return home, saying: “Aly children treat me like a dog. I. will never return to them. I have given them my fortune. They care more for it than for me.” Fifteen years ago William AlcGuirk drove a milk waggon and earned IO dollars (£2 10s) a week. He married Loretta Launigan, one of his customers. At that time lie said: “Sonic day we will have money, and then wo will take our honeymoon.” He sold his milk wagon and hough! an old taxi-cab. Now he owns 1860 cabs, and his earnings in the last three vears have been 3,000.000 dollars (£600,000). To-day he and his wife occupied the finest suite on the steamship Mauretania sailing on the long-deferred honeymoon.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 October 1924, Page 5
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