TWO MILLIONAIRES.
STRIKING CONTRAST,
NEW YORK, Oct. 2. Two millionaires are thle .central figures iln the fnews stories to-day. •Edwair-d 'iWajshburn, tan aged multimillionaire, ice manufacturer, who had been missing for a. week, was found acting as clerk in grocers store at 20 dollars (£4) ,a week. He refused to return home, 'saying: "My children treated me like. a cog,; I will never ireturn to them. J, have given them my fortune.. They care more for it than for me.." Fifteen ago William McGuirk drove a milk wagon and earned 10 dollars (£2 10s) a week. He married Loretta Lannigan, one of his customers. At that time he said: "Some day we will (have money, and then we will take our honeymoon." He sold his milk wagon and bought an old taxi-cab. Now he owns UOO cabs, and his earning in the kst three years have heen 3,000,000 dollars (£600,000). , , To-day he and his wife occupied the finest suite on the steamship Mauretania sailing on the long-defer-red honeymoon.
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Shannon News, 7 November 1924, Page 3
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168TWO MILLIONAIRES. Shannon News, 7 November 1924, Page 3
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