Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-07 | Page 2 | Girl Bookkeeper Gets a Gold Brick

GIRL BOOKKEEPER GETS A GOLD BRICK Thought It Was Brass and Carried ItHome It ItHome ItHome Home but Joke Was on the Joker roker NEW YORK Feb 6 r Thi This Is time the gold guld brick was the re real l thing but was thought by Its recipient to be bog bogus s. s Miss Carrie King bookkeeper r at the Ho Hotel el Navarra received the brick at ather ather her office window E. E D. D Baker who presented presented it is a rich Montana M nt na miner a patron of the hotel Please keep this paperweight for forme forme forme me it i Is a gold brick said Mr Baker to Miss King King i too pretty to leave around said the young lady I guess Ill I'll take i it t home the miner jokingly All AU right right- said right said Mr Baker c called for his gold brick today Why I took tok it home said Miss King It was only brass wasn't ft I n r. r Real go gold d. d Soo said the miner no longer Joking Joking- My goodness may maybe be knocking knock knock- ing log around the house now gasped the bookkeeper She reached ed her home as soon as she could get there found the brick and took it back to its owner