HOUSE BOUGHT WITH PENNIES
For many years Mrs Newman, wife of ai Norfolk railway signalman saved all the pennies she received in change and when she had 12 changed them into silver and later the silver into notes .
W*hen one day her husband admred a house that was for. sale, %he turned to him and said', ' { We '11 buy it.''
He thought she was joking, but she pro duced the necessary money—the result of pennies accumulated for 17 years!
This amazing story of a wife's thrift has just been revealed by the sale of the house following Mrs Newman's death.
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Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 49, 15 May 1930, Page 11
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100HOUSE BOUGHT WITH PENNIES Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 49, 15 May 1930, Page 11
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