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Believe it or not! [1929]

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The Upside-Down Man 3

An Ever-Standing Man 11

A Hindoo Urdhabahu 12

A Football Game; A Pumpkin; A Wounded Soldier; A Cat and a Rat 19

River of Vinegar; Boy With Owl Eyes; A Lemon; Jimmy Johnston 22

Jean Baptiste Mouron Was a Galley Slave for 100 Years and a Day 24

Pacific and Atlantic Oceans; Duke Farrell; Paul Hubert 27

Inca Atahuallpa; Fishermen of El Gran Chaco 36

Morimoto; The Murder at Midnight 43

Bootlegging Human Heads 58

Magdelaine—Charlotte—Jacquette—Renaud 62

An Indian Juggler 70

H. B. Applegate’s Boat; The Rubaiyat; Soveski of Stanford University, Sultan of Djocjockarte 77

Simon of the Pillar 82

Red Snow; Emmett French; A Letter Delivered 64 Years Late 91

The Fork-Tongued Fräulein; Sigmund Klein; H. Hanson; London’s Honking Pedestrian; The Glass Snake 97

The Beaked Chaetodon Fish; French Biplane; Largest Number; Mrs. Mathilde Kovacs; Miss Joyce Wethered 108

The Fig-Tree Tomb; Sidis, the Prodigy; The Peg-Legged Cow; W. C. Perry 122

A Kewawnqdu 125

Robert Jones; The Eyeless Infant; Phil Hanna; The Lyre Bird 133

Rameses; Mrs. Elliott Lynn; The Crawling Fish; Squire Osbaldeston 140

O. T. Wertz; W. J. Brassard; John Radcliffe; A Bull Frog 144

Oliver Cromwell; Tom McAuliffe; J. Johnson 147

Sankal-Walah 150

Finger Nails of a Chinese Priest; The Four-Footed Chick; A Caterpillar 154

Champion Hog-Caller; A 67-Year-Old Contortionist; The Word “Personality”; Gus Sundstrom 157

Herr Heinrich Laufer; John G. Anderson; Smallest Church in the World; California’s Lion Hunter; 24-Year-Old Cat 162

A Luzonese Dancer; Japanese Plum Tree 163

Hirohito; An American Palindrome; Beggars’ Newspaper; Walter Hagen 165

World’s Worst Thug; Hopping Toad; Lefty Groves 167

7¹⁄₂ Inch Nose; Empress Marie Louise; Terry McGovern; A Telegram; One Pair of Shoes 169

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