Bicentennial Story #7-Miniature Writer

Bicentennial Story #7-Miniature Writer

Jim Zaharee of Max is declared the world's champion miniature writer in 1935, after writing the Declaration of Independence on a grain of rice.

5/9/1975

12/29/1975

Father Louis Pfaller
Jack Hjort

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It 1935 Bob "Believe-it-or-Not" Ripley declared Jim Zaharee of
Max, North Dakota, the world's champion minature writer. He wrote the entire Declaration of Independence--plus the names of its 56 signers and the names of the 13 original colonies--all on one side of a grain of rice. This was a total of 7576 legible letters of such minute size that they could be read only with the aid of a microscope. The writing was not done in a day---Zaharee worked at this unique project for 8 months. (And in 1936 he wrote Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on a single strand of hair no longer than 2 1/4 inches)

This is Bicentennial Story No. 7, prepared by Father Louis Pfaller for the Stark County Historical Society.

Rolfsrud, Extraordinary North Dakotans, 172

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