RECORD FAST?
GIRL LIES IN CABINET WITHOUT FOOD FOR 45 DAYS. MONEY FOR MOTHER'S OPERATION. A Leicester girl who carried out what is claimed to he a record fast in a local amusement hall revealed to the doctor who forhade her to continue that she had done it for her mother's sake. She was known as Miss X and was offered £200 if she fasted for 45 days. She fasted for 43 days, drinking only lemonade and smoking cigarettes, lying inside a glass cabinet where spectators could see her. Then a doctor said that she was so weak that she must give up. She begged to be allowed to continue, saying that she had undertaken the fast to get money for an operation on which her mother's life depended. The promoters will present her with the money which she would have earned had she fasted the full period.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 254, 18 June 1932, Page 8
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148RECORD FAST? Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 254, 18 June 1932, Page 8
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