Salt Lake Herald | 1890-11-11 | Page 6 | Jay Gould's Little Superstition

Jay Gouldb Lirtlo Superstition That very hard headed financier Mr Jay Gould is said to believe if not in a lucky penny 2r at least in a luck pen wiper This pen wiper is a primitive construction con-struction of blue velvet made by his only daughter when she was 3 years old It lies upon his desk by day and is carefully looked look-ed up at night The legend runs that just before the great strike on the Missouri Pacific Pa-cific road the pen wiper disappeared mysteriously mys-teriously and just after the settlement it reappeared as mysteriously its owner however having parted with 1000000 in th l 1 = Thizr