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CONFECTIONER’S DEBT 48 YEARS AFTER Not long ago Thomas William Jarvis kept the voav that he made 48 years ago. Then lie Avas only 25, a confectioner in the city of Durham, England. The business in Avhich lie Avas a partner failed, and he was adjudged bankrupt—for £B9. “I’ll pay 20s in the pound plus 4 per cent, interest,” he vowed, “and make my wife happy and comfortable again.” Bub it Avas uot so easily done as said. He set out to find’a job, and then as the years Avent by he and his wife strove to save. All tho little pleasures that cost money they Avent Avithout. Now Thomas William Jarvis is 73, groundsman at Durham University playing fields. He has been groundsman for more than 40 years.
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Opotiki News, Volume III, Issue 317, 30 September 1940, Page 1
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