FORTUNE-TELLING AND WAR.
A daughter was blamed for her mother’s appearance at Tottenham on a charg© of drunkenness. The woman complained that, the girl persisted in going to a fortune teller, and the stories she was told the girl came home and told her mother. Misfortune for the family was predicted, and the defendant’s sons were to meet their deaths at the front “I have four sons gone to th e war,” said the woman, ‘“and th© fortune teller’s tales have undermined all our healths.” Magistrate: “Yen say yon have four sons at the front?” Woman: “Yes, on© has been killed, and another seriously wounded.”
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 241, 1 July 1915, Page 2
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105FORTUNE-TELLING AND WAR. Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 241, 1 July 1915, Page 2
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