BANKRUPTED BY DRINK.
The following sad confession is given in a recent issue of the “Pittsburgh Dispatch”:— “A gripp ng sentence of eight words, telling apparently the story of a wrecked life and the squandering of a fortune, was detected yesterday on a dollar bill, by Paul Wentz, a jeweller, of this place. It read: ‘The last of loo.ooodol. Booze done it all !’ Mr Went/ does not recall who gave him the bill. He has placed it on exhibition.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 263, 18 May 1917, Page 15
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79BANKRUPTED BY DRINK. White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 263, 18 May 1917, Page 15
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