On This Day in History, March 21: The Luck O’ The Irish
We’ve all received those scam emails that inform us we’ve hit the jackpot in the Irish lotto. If only. But back in 1934, that actually happened! (Not through email, of course). A Brooklyn Daily Eagle front page story of March 21, 1934, featured two young lassies who were Irish Sweepstakes winners. The story is reprinted below.
“Two Brooklyn women of 22, employed as typists in Manhattan, received word from Dublin today that they had jointly won one of the bigger prizes of the Irish Sweepstakes, in which drawings were resumed this morning.
“They are the Misses Ruth C. Marshall of 1358 E. 32d St., and Eleanor Cabaret of 334 Rugby Rd. They are to share, half-and-half, in a prize of 7,018 pounds, or about $35,000.