A MANLY OLD LADY.
PARIS. February 21. .Madame Mar.sant. aged 7-3, of Lille, has just received a Government medal for war services. Endowed with unusual strength, she worked from her earliest years at a variety of manual labour occupations, and has smoked a pine since girlhood, being known in T.ille district as “Madame La Pipe’’. All her life she _ has worn men Vt clothes, and began working with her father at Dunkirk as a dock labourer, she later worked as a mortar mixer, plasterer’s labourer, gardener, coal porter, and dustman. During the German occupation she was arrested for concealing French praoners, but escaped by a ruse.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1925, Page 2
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106A MANLY OLD LADY. Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1925, Page 2
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