TWENTIETH CENTURY TALES

PAUL SIEVEKING presents the last of his collections of strange newspaper stories from the first half of the 20th century. This time: a serial survivor of ship sinkings, a Somerset sea serpent, and a man who ticked like a clock.

PART THREE: 1935-1951 For 11 years, two girls lived within four blocks of each other In Butte, Montana. They went to the same school and became the best of friends. It was only in May 1935, when they were aged 18 and 16, that foster parents, checking adoption papers, discovered they were sisters, born Rose Montana Neal and Josephine Lee Neal. Their natural parents had separated 12 years earlier, and the mother put their four children in an orphanage, from which each was adopted by a different family. One was still untraced at the time of the report. [AP] NY Times, 6 May 1935. During a public performance in Izsak, Hungary, a hypnotist asked for a volunteer. Karoly Szani, a young farmer, accepted the invitation and was soon in a…

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