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BESIEGED BY SPINSTERS.

IJiUZE-WL\NEIt'Sl J iUZE-WL\NEIt'S PROPOSALS FROM MANY WOMEN. LONDON, March 7. The most uncomfortable man in Switzerland is M. Lehman, an engineer living at Rumont, near Fribourg, who recently won £40,000 in tlie Milan lottery. j He is receiving tram 500 lu IUUH b;g- : Iging and matrimonial letters daily, am!, the postal authorities at Uomont have had to treble their stall'. M. Lehman is especially harassed by matrimonial agents, in coiisequcnee oi' the announcement published in the Swi** newspapers that lio was looking i'or si wife. "Jf 1 lmd won £1,000,000, 1 could not comply with all the demands made upon me," said M. Lehman yesterday. Among the many letters received is one from a woman, who writes: "f am going to marry a horrid oKI man soon, because I must. U' yon me £2,000 I could marry the man of my choice, who has no money/' A girl who describes herself as "twen-ty-two and pretty" writes a ten-paged letter oil tbe pleasures of dome>ticiiv. and adds: "I am willing; are you r" One correspondent frankly admils thai she is forty-sh, but add* that she is kin< ! and atleetionale, ruid would make a gOud wife. She asks Lehman to send her a telegram if he desires her io come lo Romont for a personal interview. r«ggsr^ty.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 22 April 1907, Page 4

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BESIEGED BY SPINSTERS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 22 April 1907, Page 4

BESIEGED BY SPINSTERS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 22 April 1907, Page 4

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