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FIVE HUNDRED FOR ONE.; WHAT GEORGE NEWTON OFFERED TO DO FOR NEW-YORK POLICEMEN.

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" You put $10 in the slot and you pull out $5,000. A sure thing. Failure impossible."

September 12, 1891

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