THE HAIRPIN HUNT.
MONEY KING'S NEW PASTIME. NEW. YORK, March 14, This city has discovered & new craze to take the place of "freak" dinners, which have becomo too common. On Sunday night a- hilarious croAvd followed two Avell-Hnpwn millionaires, one of whom is a notable character m United States Society, • and carried the first mails., to ' Klon'dyke. Overcome Avith ennui, one conceived ■ the noveL idea of prospecting the city sideAvalks for hairpins, and, starting from the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, he Avandered around the principal blocks accompanied by the other .millionaire. The searcher's eyes were glued to the sidewalk, but he was lucky enough to find a hairpin on each of nine blocks, and Avon £900, £100 for each. ,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12411, 22 March 1911, Page 5
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117THE HAIRPIN HUNT. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12411, 22 March 1911, Page 5
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