WORLD’S TALLEST MAN
DUTCH GIANT VISITS LONDON,
TEN EGGS FOR BREAKFAST
The London crowds were .startled when Jan van Albert, a Dutchman, and the tallest man in the world, stepped from the Continental boat train. Tie is nine feel three inches hit'll, and 23 years old.
He wore a silk hat, size DA, hoots of size, .13, and his frock coat and striped trousers required 8:f yards of cloth. His luggage included a bed ten feet long.
It was necessary to take the roof off the taxi-cab and -Van Albert sat in the car with his head towering' over the framework, which he used as an arm-rest.
Van Albert’s breakfast consists of two soup plates of porridge, 10 soft boiled eggs, live mutton chops eight cups of coffee, and 12 bread rolls. Van Albert will shortly appear at a music hall, accompanied by a dwarf, who reckoned the smallest man in the world.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2741, 5 June 1924, Page 1
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153WORLD’S TALLEST MAN Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2741, 5 June 1924, Page 1
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