PEANUT MARATHON
TO TOP OF PIKE’S PEAK. “They can be told apart by the fact that a peanut has no nose,” says a waggish American journal of William Williams, of Hondo, Texas, was lately engaged in pushing a peanut to the top of the famous Pike’s Peak, in the Rockies, about six miles from Colorado Springs and over 14,000 ft., by means of his nose. No immediate reward is offered, but promising vaudeville engagements loom ahead as a valuable prize if Williams succeeds. He faces two difficulties —the peanut dr his nose may wear out before the accomplishment of his signal desire. Against these possibilities the peanut-pusher has established two conditions. Just as in baseball one ball need not be used throughout the whole of the game, so Williams has stipulated that the worn-out peanut may be replaced by another, without any stipulation as to the number he may require. His nose is a more serious problem. Here Williams has displayed an ingenuity worthy of his cause. He has invented a device which, placed upon his nose, preserves it from abrasions.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 August 1929, Page 10
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