A working man named Wenzel Hora. living at Pilsen, unexpectedly inherited £250 from a relative in America. He invited all his friends to a great drinking bout-, and ordered a barrel of the famous local beer, for which lie gave tho publican a thousand crown note, telling him to keep the change. He soon drank himself senseless, hut when he recovered, in a paroxysm of remorse he took out the remaining five thousand crown notes, cut them into confetti with a pair of scissors* and scattered them to the winds.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3555, 21 June 1912, Page 7
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90Untitled Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3555, 21 June 1912, Page 7
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