EXCHANGE
SOME STRANGE JOLICiES
There seeing to be few, things which cannot be insured. Dancers insure their lege, pianists their fingers, singers their vocal chords, girls the,if dimples. An actress insured her hat, was studded with jewels, from being blown overboard on an Atlantic crossing. A fat woman in a circus, finding she ‘was Ming her precious weight insured against that catastrophe, while it is common for dancers and screen stars to insure 'against -growing stout.
A Hollywood film concern, taking pictures ‘among the mountains, insured against any other kind of weather than snow on a certain day. But perhaps the record (for freak insurance) was broke n when a- man who owned .a shop in the shadow of the Monument, •near London Bridge, insured against the risk of its falling on hie place ot business.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1933, Page 6
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136EXCHANGE Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1933, Page 6
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