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Funerals without fuss

The inventors of Winnipeg are an imaginative crowd and their annual exhibition last week seems to have produced some new ideas that cannot possibly have been thought of before.

One gentleman has devised a method of shrinking an adult human body to the size of a baby. He claims that this will be an excellent way to dispose of dead bodies because it will be possible for the shrunken corpses to be slid into underground tubes and buried without any of the fuss that goes with conventional burial and without taking up too much space.

His shrinking…

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