Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1901 — Got a Big Pearl With His Oysters. [ARTICLE]

Got a Big Pearl With His Oysters.

Morgan H. Morgan, file clerk in the office of the clerk of the circuit court, in company with several friends, lunched in a restaurant at Clark and Randolph streets, and, among other things, the entire party partook of fried oysters. Morgan picked out a large, juicy one and was beginning io eat it with a relish when his teeth grated on a hard substance. He removed the object from his mouth and was about to tell the waiter that he had not ordered the oysters to lie seasoned with gravel when his attention was attracted by the reflection of the light upon the object he had thrown on the table. Investigation showed that it was a pearl of good size. Morgan put the pearl in his pocket and after leaving the restaurant went to the office of a lapidary in the Champlain building, where he was offered sl4 for the gem. He took the money. Chicago Inter Ocean.