Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1918 — Her Prophecy Came True. [ARTICLE]

Her Prophecy Came True.

A story is tol'd to the effect tha£ Simon Bolivar, when he was a child of seven, had for a playmate in Spain a boy of about his own age named Ferdinand, the future Spanish king. One day/while engaged in a game of battledore and shuttlecock, a stroke by young Bolivar knocked the cap from Ferdinand’s head. Whereupon an old nurse, who witnessed the occurrence, and who was deemed a soothsayer, declared that some day Bolivar would knock the crown from the king’s head. Which feat he certainly did accomplish, so far as South America wal concerned. ...