SPENT £20,000.
. TO HAVE HIS EGGS FRESH. NEW YORK, July 20. Alexander Peacock, one of Andrew Carnegie’s original young men partners, who has died at the age of 66,, is reported to have been worth £4,000,000. He started on a £3OO loan from Carnegie. ■, Ho was a man of violent whims, and spent £20,000 on a chicken farm so that he might have fresh eggs daily. When he learned that several of his office employees had squandered £60,000 in playing tli© stock market and the races, he called them individually into his privae office and soundly thrashed them.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 205, 28 July 1928, Page 10
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98SPENT £20,000. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 205, 28 July 1928, Page 10
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