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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1898
Page
12
A circus memory recalls a 18-foot giraffe carrying a long torch above the crowd, guiding a calliope during performances. A special wagon elevated the platform for the musician while the giraffe marched beside the instrument, lighting the notes for spectators and creating a celebrated, wild response.
Mandy Ekerstrom, a Kentucky teen aged 17, reportedly weighs 475 pounds and measures seven feet three inches around the bust, with a height of five feet three inches. The Cincinnati museum plans to display her extraordinary proportions, noting she stands as a remarkable figure among peers in the Blue Grass region.
A Kentucky item notes Mandy earns 20 a week by exploiting her avoirdupois at 34 cents per inch, with boastful claims of a mighty arm for her devoted cavalier and questions if any other woman can match this earnings rate. The piece also recalls a misdated medical error, a wrong eye removal and a derelict vessel picked up by Londoners.
The Romany band known as the Cerenatis plans a coronation in Topeka Kansas on May 22 for Molly Stanley also called Molly Stackeritch the young queen elect. Her mother Sofia Fryer led the Hemany tribe in Austria and died recently. Gypsy bands from across the United States and abroad travel to witness the ceremony with about one thousand gypsies expected. The crown will be placed by Minnie Youngs of Chicago with Belph Mutrovitch performing the rite. The royal household camps in woodlands near Topeka for a week of festivities showcasing Romany music and colors. The queen elect Molly speaks several languages and travels with her husband Gunray Stanley, the family interpreter.
Col Elisha DeBoard, aged over eighty, built a stone octagon residence overlooking his beloved grave site near Richland in Gilmer County Georgia. The mansion, with heavy glass and a gate like a vault, stands beside his wife’s white monument. He tends flowers around the windows and spends nights close to the grave of his life partner, seeking quiet companionship in death as in life.
J Stein a Tottenham Road baker awoke to find shutters torn and a plate glass window smashed. An elephant from Lord George Sanger’s show was inside feeding on bread loaves, calmly returned to its stable after patience from a nearby policeman. The piece notes the elephant’s memory and previous bread gifts, and mentions a Washington doctor who explains dotted veil related eye diseases funded by fees.
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