1902-1903 BESSARABIA: TIDBITS OF
INFORMATION
Bessarabian Provincial Gazette
(Collected by Natalia
Sinyavskaya)
1902 (11/6)—4 p.m. Found on
the sidewalk, a Jewish 16 year old girl, Manya Geyzer, was found unconscious,
apparently poisoned by carbolic acid. An empty carbolic acid bottle labeled Perelmuter
was found near her. She was sent to the hospital in Chisinau, where she died 15
minutes later. The deceased had gone to the Perelmuter drugstore &
requested carbolic acid that she stated was needed by her mother’s midwife. She
was warned to give it directly to the midwife. It was unknown why she committed
suicide.
1903 (1/24) The
Chisinau-based assistance to poor Jews fulfilled a long-held dream of providing
local orphans with their own orphanage. The property was acquired for 1500 R.
It had 4 tithes of land & two houses.
1903 (5/30) Shabsa Livshits, owner
of a small grocery store in the suburbs of the town of Boyukanakh (Boyukany),
won a ticket for the 3rd noble loan for 75,000 R. under unusual
circumstances. Mr. Livshits had two tickets, which were in the
Belotserkovsky bank office.
Livshits went to the bank office, demanding his tickets. But the office, which
transferred all the securities to the state bank for safekeeping, was able to
only give him one ticket---#14870-31 (which was accidentally left in the
office), because the other was being kept in the state bank. The office issued
Livshits another ticket, #12341-36. After receiving these tickets, Mr. Livshits
went to London, leaving his family in Chisinau. His wife went to the bank
office and found out that the ticket #1231-36, issued to Mr. Livshits in exchange
for his own, won 75,000 R. Mr. Belotserkovsky expressed his readiness to issue
the money immediately upon presentation of the ticket. Mrs. Livshits
immediately sent a telegram to her husband with a request to send her the
ticket in order to receive the winning amount.
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