Major” Gante, who has travelled all round the world as “the smallest man in the universe,” is retiring from the show business. He has acquired a comfortable fortune, bought a farm at Fairfield, lowa, and is advertising for a wife. Gantz, who is thirty-eight years of age, 18in in height, and weighs only 351b, stipulates that the lady must be “ tali, young, and comely.” . A little cough will take you off When you the least expert it; If you don’t try to make it fly, . But happen to neglect it. For coughs increase, and never cease, . When once their footing’s sure, Tfct at the start they all depart With Woods’, Great Peppermint flaa ■ —TAdvU
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Evening Star, Issue 11889, 18 May 1903, Page 1
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114Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 Evening Star, Issue 11889, 18 May 1903, Page 1
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