THE FASTING MAN. A recent cable message told of the successful completion by Succi, the fasting man, of a thirty-three days' fast at Turin. This, it appears, was his seventy-first experiment of a similar character, and he undertook in this case, that, before eating, he would don a suit of armour and mounting a horse ride for three hours round the exhibition. The greater part of his earnings were to go to a society for providing the hungry poor with bread.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 10147, 21 September 1898, Page 5
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