“LITTLE LOTTERIA.”
FLOWER-SELLER \S FIND. ROTTERV FOR A BABY. (Australian and N.Z. Cable AssociVion. GENEVA, Feb. 24. A flower seller of Bergamo rvas surprised to find a baby girl a year old lying in a small box with a message pinned to her clothing, which read, “Good-bye, darling! We are too poor to keep you.” A number of people Avanted to adopt the baby, so the Mayor of Bergamo decided to’ arrange a lottery with the baby as the prize. The Avinners proA’ed to be an elderly childless couple. Subscriptions to the lottery have been banked as the child’s dot, and her Christian name henceforth AA’ill be “Lottcria.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16671, 26 February 1925, Page 5
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