HINDENDURG’S ELECTION
FATE OF HIS WOODEN STATUE CUT UP INTO FIREWOOD. (Received 9.40 a.m.) Electric Telegraph—Press Association BERLIN, May 1. The Nationalists desired to celebrate Von Hindenburg’s election to the Presidency by restoring liis wooden 120 feet effigy, erected in Berlin in the war time, wherein patriots paid the privilege of driving nails. A dligent investigation revealed that the statue had been sold to an architect after the war for a shilling’s worth of paper marks. A wood merchant subsequently purchased it, and cut it into firewood.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9922, 2 May 1925, Page 5
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87HINDENDURG’S ELECTION Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9922, 2 May 1925, Page 5
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