Bridgeport Evening Farmer in Bridgeport, Connecticut

Four Men Who Handled a Hearse in South Africa

A Canadian ex-soldier recalls a Boer War tale from Middleburg in the Transvaal. Four hearse handlers vanished after a shed incident, with all four returning to Canada died or missing, later said to have chosen new lives in Cape Town and Boer farms. Also included are brief anecdotes from New York papers on oddities, a stuck knot tale at a post office, iron floating in molten metal, a political quip, and a humor vignette from Bow.