LADY GODIVA REDIVIVA.
A Great Pageant
Press Association—Copyright. London, August 8.
One hundred and fifty thousand visitors witnessed the Lady Godiva procession at Coventry. La Milo, who took tho part of Lady Godiva, was greeted with enthusiasm over the six milo route.
[Tho story of Lady Godiva was that .''he pleaded with her husband to bo less harsh iu his treatment of ihu people of ■ .V.veutry, over whom lie was lord, and lie promised to grant her request if she would show her devotion to liu.se whoso cause she urged by riding naked through the streets. She did so and all remained indoors to spare her modesty. One man alone, “Peeping Tom,” looked out and was stricken with blindness as a consequence. i
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8890, 9 August 1907, Page 2
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123LADY GODIVA REDIVIVA. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8890, 9 August 1907, Page 2
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