Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1912 — BARONET SELLS NEWSPAPERS [ARTICLE]

BARONET SELLS NEWSPAPERS

Sir Henry Kellett of England, Re* duced to Poverty, Enters Business at Melbourne, Australia. London. —Behind the counter of a little cigar and newspaper store In the High street district of Kow, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, stands throughout the day a suave, polite, courtly little man, greeting with bland smile and a grateful “much obliged, call again,” all who choose to buy newspapers, cigars or tobacco of him. ‘ Scarcely any of those who know him under the name he has assumed for more than fifteen years are aware of the fact that he is listed in the pages of Debrett as« Sir Henry Kellett, baronet of the United Kingdom. To the reporter of a Melbourne newspaper, who dug out the story of his descent from a high social position to the status of a humble shopkeeper, Sir Henry thus explained hi* position: “I was left without a shilling and only the rudiments of an education; came out here to earn a living and have so far succeeded. I work from dawn to midnight. Don’t you think under these circumstances It was wise for me to forget my title? Rather Incongruous for ’Sir Henry and Lady Kellett’ to be selling newspapers from behind a shop counter.”