Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1893 — The Fatal Thirteen. [ARTICLE]

The Fatal Thirteen.

New York Sun. At No. 13 of a certain street in this city several accidents have happened that tenants promptly attributed to the unluckiness of the number. They have moved away in consequence of this belief, and the property has really depreciated in value. So serious is this relation of superstition to business that, a certain lawyer says, he would discriminate against any place numbered 13, not that he has any faith; in the omen, but that other people have and would give it a bad name. He would not advance as much, for instance, on a mortgage on No. 13 as he would on Nos. 11 or 15, though all three of the houses should be precisely alike.