NOVEL PRIZE.
FOR SWISS LOTTERY. BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT. 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 Bergamo decided *to arrange a lottery with the baby as prize. The winners proved to he an elderly, childless couple. The subscriptions to the lottery have been banked as the child’s dowry. Her Christian name henceforth will be Lotteria
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 February 1925, Page 5
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98NOVEL PRIZE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 February 1925, Page 5
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