Hans August Larson

Hans August Larson was a Danish-born eccentric resident in Manitoba and Minnesota during the early twentieth-century, self-described as a spiritualist, hypnotist, and mind-reader (Spirritualist & Hipnotist & Minwreeder), and who claimed to have devised a method of perpetual motion as well as a submarine torpedo that he claimed "would make the nation that purchased it master of the world."

1896-1910 (Balsam Bay, Manitoba)

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Perpetual Motion

 * "Warren, the 23 July 1911, Inventor of Perpetual Motion, Proffesser H. August Larson. I recivet a return from the Patent Office it sais we have recivet yours Plans thaken on Oath, the 8 July 1911 bot this Office can not belive it can work without a working model is send to this office. if it works as you describe it, Mr. Larson, it seatle and ends alle Arguments. I sent my drowing after a Deriction from a Boog sen to me from the U. S. Patent Office. it sais do not sen model first tim. you at first sen a drowing and if the Office ask you after to sen a model yo ucan do so also. I, Proff. Larson, will make a cuccesful working model in the first tim of August mont and show it in Warren for Poplick and on Oath as a crowning cuccess and thad is the last of it. &mdash; Spirritualist & Hipnotist & Minwreeder H. A Larson, of Danmark."
 * "Warren, the 23 July 1911, Inventor of Perpetual Motion, Proffesser H. August Larson. I recivet a return from the Patent Office it sais we have recivet yours Plans thaken on Oath, the 8 July 1911 bot this Office can not belive it can work without a working model is send to this office. if it works as you describe it, Mr. Larson, it seatle and ends alle Arguments. I sent my drowing after a Deriction from a Boog sen to me from the U. S. Patent Office. it sais do not sen model first tim. you at first sen a drowing and if the Office ask you after to sen a model yo ucan do so also. I, Proff. Larson, will make a cuccesful working model in the first tim of August mont and show it in Warren for Poplick and on Oath as a crowning cuccess and thad is the last of it. &mdash; Spirritualist & Hipnotist & Minwreeder H. A Larson, of Danmark."
 * "Warren, the 23 July 1911, Inventor of Perpetual Motion, Proffesser H. August Larson. I recivet a return from the Patent Office it sais we have recivet yours Plans thaken on Oath, the 8 July 1911 bot this Office can not belive it can work without a working model is send to this office. if it works as you describe it, Mr. Larson, it seatle and ends alle Arguments. I sent my drowing after a Deriction from a Boog sen to me from the U. S. Patent Office. it sais do not sen model first tim. you at first sen a drowing and if the Office ask you after to sen a model yo ucan do so also. I, Proff. Larson, will make a cuccesful working model in the first tim of August mont and show it in Warren for Poplick and on Oath as a crowning cuccess and thad is the last of it. &mdash; Spirritualist & Hipnotist & Minwreeder H. A Larson, of Danmark."
 * "Warren, the 23 July 1911, Inventor of Perpetual Motion, Proffesser H. August Larson. I recivet a return from the Patent Office it sais we have recivet yours Plans thaken on Oath, the 8 July 1911 bot this Office can not belive it can work without a working model is send to this office. if it works as you describe it, Mr. Larson, it seatle and ends alle Arguments. I sent my drowing after a Deriction from a Boog sen to me from the U. S. Patent Office. it sais do not sen model first tim. you at first sen a drowing and if the Office ask you after to sen a model yo ucan do so also. I, Proff. Larson, will make a cuccesful working model in the first tim of August mont and show it in Warren for Poplick and on Oath as a crowning cuccess and thad is the last of it. &mdash; Spirritualist & Hipnotist & Minwreeder H. A Larson, of Danmark."

Selected Compositions

 * GOD AND DEVIL COMES TO WAR 1914; quadrille, words and music by H. A. Larson, of U.S.; violin with text. [11114 c 1 c. June 3, 1916; E 388410; Hans August Larson, Aspelin, Minn. https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyrig112libr/page/732/mode/2up?q=%22Hans+August+Larson%22
 * KING OF OCEAN: WAR 1914, words and music by H. A. Larson, of U.S.; violin with text. [11490 c. 1 c. June 3, 1916; E 388411; Hans August Larson, Aspelin, Minn. https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyrig112libr/page/754/mode/2up?q=%22Hans+August+Larson%22
 * SPIRITUALIST KING; words and music by H. A. Larson, of U.S. [12285, c. 1 c. June 3, 1916; 388414; Hans August Larson, Aspelin, Minn. https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyrig112libr/page/800/mode/2up?q=%22Hans+August+Larson%22