Show MAN WEARS NO 17 SHOES they are fifteen inches long and have to be bu it to order A pair of shoes was shipped from rockland mass recently which are said to be the largest shoes ever man for actual wear they are no 17 size and FF width thug thus they are about fifteen inches long four common shoe boxes were required for I 1 aching them two for each shoe the average man wears a no 8 or 9 they were made for a 4 colored man af harvey murray who works in a saw f mill in tirrell ark cje went to mem mern r aphis tenn looking for a pair of shoes a to fit him and after making a round of all the stores in nat city was un able to find ana an one of the clarka N in the last store that he sug that he have a pair made the f customer consented and his feet were ir measured A special pair of lasts had to be made it took nearly an entire skin 0 patent kid hid for the amp ltd about all that was good in a side of sola sole leather tor for the sole soles the customer insisted that they haye rubber heels and it was with difficulty that a pair large enough m was as sec see tred the shoes were so large larke haiat they would not go into the lasting machine and had to be lasted by hand it took about three weeks to get them through the factory |