$17,2OO
In Glenarm, County Antrim, Ireland, Alexander McGarvock, informed that his brother had left him $17,200, dropped dead from excitement.
$3,500,000
In Memphis, Mrs. Blanche Hamilton Karsch, onetime inmate of a Manhattan orphanage, was informed, while shopping for fresh vegetables, that she had inherited $3,500,000 from her foster mother. "Really!" observed Mrs. Karsch. "That's nice." Mrs. Karsch continued to shop, critically selected a 10¢bunch of beets, a 5¢ head of lettuce.
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