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Show FORTUNE II OLO RAGS Sorter Finds $1,800 in One Week at Paper Mill Newark. N. J., August 20. Herbert Stcuble finds the Job of rag-sorter at o paper mill at Whippany, N- J.. a rrott remunerative position. Ills wages are only $6 a week, but during the pat week he has cleared $1,800 fioni valuables which he found concealed con-cealed among the old rags and wacto v. hich daily passes under his rake. Five days ago he picked up an old .stocking which contained two diamonds dia-monds worth $500 each. Yesterday he came upon a large papphire and a ruby tit ' up in a handkerchief. As a tesult of the recent publics' t:ou of the finding of precious stones in waste rags and -paper the superintendent superin-tendent of the factory has received .-vernl letters from persons who say t'iey have lost precious stones. A woman, writing from New York, said that she lost diamonds valued at $2,-(umi, $2,-(umi, which were tied In a wrapping tissue paper. |