“as the only heir to the singer sewing machine fortune, daisy singer alexander was an eccentric woman who enjoyed dropping bottles with messages inside into the river thames. in june of 1937, alexander wrote a note reading, “to avoid all confusion, i leave my entire estate to the lucky person who finds this bottle,” sealed it, and threw it into the river. singer died in 1940. in 1949, a San Francisco dishwasher named jack wrum was walking along the beach and happened across a sealed bottle. as a result of the note inside, he inherited eight million dollars.”
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/02/15/101113.php
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November 8, 2008 at 1:58 pm
That’s amazing! … and pretty!