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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 30 November 1912, Page 5

Superstitious people in Prance are*. worried by the new method of counting the hours. Trains which, start at Ip.m. (now 13 o'clock), are much less crowded than others, especially on Fridays. It i» curious how the superstition of 13 persists. Massenet never dated his "letters on the fatal day. Even his manuscriptshe numbered thus: 12, 12 bis, 14. J3;r a strange coincidence or fatality, the*, great composer died on the 13th "of the*, month in a year whose figures addeit up amount to 13.