Show STRENGTH OF A BOY CAN LIFT A DEAD WEIGHT or 2700 POUNDS joah Don doucherty cherty tit I 1 arab ii rib in anit it ailen aho ha I 1 billj I 1 bt reneth by an sit 1 l auto tu to go into utu the I 1 alln HE portrait which appears below was made from a c cabinet photograph ot of joslin dougherty cf c faribault Farl bault ditico county minn 11 who Is without doubt J the strongest 17 V ear old boy in america ahn far labault democrat recently published the tho following facts about him As strong boy has attracted trac tel attention ot of late and his alleged performances have given ghen riso rise to doubt as a to their genuineness the democrat his 1 looked up the oung man for tho benefit of its readers dougherty the bouth in question Is a machinist employed at the foundry ot of r W winter co he Is not quite 17 years of age Is S 5 feet 4 inches in hecht and weighs highs pounds 1 13 well ell proportioned has curly brown bron hilr and P r peasant pl amant and intelligent face he ile waa born in indiana and says he thinks he Is 1 a native american barring tho the tact fact that his fathers great grandfather was born in ireland ills 1 strength 1 Is i t natural growth groth ind lina he ile never realized realised reali sed that he waa ass stronger than most bos of his age until about two kara ears ago when hen a piece of machinery he was helping to adjust slipped onto his shoulders and he found that he could hold and carry it although it weighed bed 1200 pounds since that time he has practiced all kinds of lifting and thinks big 1 harden every day wednesday in presence of a dozen n atness s he stepped ou a pair of platform scales and b means of a chain passed over oer his shoulders an 1 under the scales ho he raised a dead weight eight of 2100 2 pounds dy by forming a bridge of his bod and adjusting i I 1 pa aided platform so as to rest on his chest and leg log muscles ho he Is able to easily hold up a plank supporting live ih e weight to the amount of 2600 pounds he ile la Is very cry well ell proportioned and his muscles arc are exceeding ll hard trozo of at tak ALI R JOSIAH DOUGHERTY his legs being like ilke steel springs young doughert Doug herti writes that he puts up a pound dumbbell with one arm holds out 70 pounds of iron at arms length raises 2400 pounds on his bick holds 2700 pounds on a bridge placed I 1 across his chest hands and feet on the I 1 floor he ile save his strength lies more in his body than in his arms he is 11 bilang to meet any living man at pounds weight to which figure ho he can call soon get down by training the contest to bo be for the championship of the world |