Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1897 — Favored by Fortune. [ARTICLE]

Favored by Fortune.

The following weil-amtllentTea red anecdote furnishes an instance of a person attaining to wealth by what Is called a “lucky" accident: A poor old woman who had long earned her livelihood b.V knitting, one day coming to the end of her ball of worsted, found It wound on a piece of newspaper, which she had the curiosity to read. To her astonishment she discovered it to contain an advertisement respecting herself, as the heir of a large property which, had she been unable to read, she might never have known anything about.