FATAL MIRTH
LONDON. Nov. 1.0. i Paralleling the fate of an aged resident named Barnes, who literally died of laughing while witnessing a Chaplin film at Hammersmith Cinema in 1923. James R.ickard, a retired Northampton dairyman, while uncontrollably laughing at one of Sir Harry Lauder's jokes on it loud speaker succumbed to a fatal seizure.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16808, 22 November 1928, Page 5
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55FATAL MIRTH Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16808, 22 November 1928, Page 5
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