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Show H e I The New' Cup Defender H Thomas W. Lawton, Iloslon's "cop- H per king" and turfman and owner of H tha (30,000 Mn. Lawson carnation, H baa declared hit Intuition of building fH a yacht, tha coat of which will b 6e- H twetn $150,000 and 1200 000, which la H to difsnd America's reputation la days ha waa back at tho bank, and thU time the banker pereuaded the tarenta to let the boy work. Three houra every day ho devoted to atudr to In tlmo became n well educated man While atlll In hta tcena h began be-gan to wrlto for tho newapapers, be B THOMAS W. l.AWBON. H JoaUng circle. Lawson la 41 ytara H aid and la a Cambrldgo man by birth, H with a remarkable record. When ha B waa 13 year old he left homo and want H to work for ft Iloaton banker at $3 n H areelc 11a worked Juat ono day when H 1 parcnta put him back to achool H Five. dy later he returned to the H bank, only to be recovered again at- H tor one day by bla parcnta. In ten came a financial writer and achieved a marked auccess In thla field, Mr. Iaw son before he was twenty years old was worth JC0.OOO but lost It. Ilefore he waa 30 ho had mado and lost several sev-eral fortunes, and It Is commonly reported re-ported on tho atrect that ten yeara ago he couldn't have railed $100, Today To-day bo can "buy and sell" most ot the I brokers In Iloaton. |