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August 3, 1940

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Lady Olga

Joseph Mitchell

PROFILE of Jane Barnell, the Bearded Lady, billed in the sideshows as Lady Olga. Miss Barnell is 69 years old and was first put on exhibition shortly after…

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Postscript from Paris. Week by week account of happenings during the anxious days between the German invasion of the Low Countries and the fall of Paris.

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