Courted His Daughters
An oldorly and wealthy widowor of I3alo, Switzerland, who recontly advertisod for a wifo in the local paper, nceived in reply a bundlo of lcttors and photographs. To his groat aatoniahtuont, his three daughters and a niece were among the numbor who offered to become his wife, Ho curried on a typewritten correspondonce with all Our, " just to see," he said, " what thoy thought of themselves," Then ho rnndo appointments with t'icm all in the samo place and gave them a sound scolding. A curious part of the story is that although tho threo daughtors lived under the sumo roof, oaeh was unaware of tho others' part in tho affair,
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1136, 3 November 1904, Page 2
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113Courted His Daughters Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1136, 3 November 1904, Page 2
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