BAFFLING THE SAMSONS
GIRL WHOM THREE MEN ‘ CANNOT LIFT. 1 i S Several strong men have failed to { 1 [lit a slim 7-stone girl at Anderton's J Hotel, London. i herself “Resista,” this young | lady, who, has been puzzling Amen-1 can professors, has visited England to! \ tour the Moss Empires, and outdo 1 Johnny Coulon. She uas also a letter [ of iirfr(junction from professors of the Rockefeller Institute to Professor Not'd-1 man at Paris. ; t When she wills, a London Daily j ; Clu'ohTcle representative found it c quite simple to lift her off the ground, but. by her art and training she can resist all normal attempts to raise her j or. even hold her perpendicularly in the air. j ; She excels Johnny Coulon and Miss I Annie Abbott (who asionished people I . about 15 years ago) in that during ! all the weight-lifting trials she did 1 , not touch with her limbs the indivi--1 dual trying to lift her. j j Three men with their hands round 1 | her waist failed to lift her off the j ground. Another man, the strongest Jof the group, could not hold her off J j the ground when she increased her *■ { resistance power, and even two men, I one on each side, failed to lift her tip c when she started to “think weight.'
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Otaki Mail, 20 March 1922, Page 4
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