The Archive · 1937

PASSES THROUGH

Young Girl an Infallible Authority

Miss Suiko Okutomi, 19, whose appearance belies her fame as one of Japan's most infallible guessers of the sex of chickens before they are hatched, passed through Shanghai on Wednesday on the s. Kashima Maru, en route home from a year of sex-guessing in England.

Also aboard the ship was Mr Yoshitomo Yagishita, of the Board of Ceremonies of the Imperial Household Ministry, returning to Tokyo from London in charge of a part) the luggage-of Prince and Princess Yasuhito Chichiu.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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