£3O, (MX) WINDFALL. M-:W YORK, Aug. 21. After searching for her ior JO veins to toll her that she is heiress to her grandfather's fortune ni £3O,(KK), Mr ilciii e Allison, a retired railway eon- : tractor of Philadelphia, yesterday ! learned the whereabouts of his daughI ter, whom lie last -saw when sho was six months old. She is now a married woman with live children. When the mother died, ■ in the child’s infancy, her lather put her into the care of his sister. Soon i after he went to Missouri and the sis- ■ ter moved to Texiia, then to Illinois i and finally to Birmingham, Alabama There his niece grew to womanhood i and married. ) In 188!), a year after she had left r her father, the girl’s grandfather died 1 ; leaving her his entire fortune. He e father, who was unaware ol his sis i- tin’s movements, advertised in the new ', papers, and has continued to do S' n every week since 1800. Last week h received a. letter from, a, former frien , telling him where his daughter was. a The friend saw the last advertise e meat of' all, as the father had come t it the. conclusion that his daughter nun i- ho dead and decided to abandon at tempts to And her.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1921, Page 3
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216Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1921, Page 3
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