Show f i r 4 r. r 1 v J l c f J 1 I tY 1 I r r 1 I r r Y 1 j. j B I oy fJ Bible t. t t Barber ti 7 9 l j vr I y i r ra 9 Buster 4 ry Bronco BroncoBuster t. t r t rL s Y Lf S J r t rr J. r r 1 1 x ny r. r l r Y r r p rh 16 4 r. r r r 1 r fJ 7 t M r r ll 1 Wit r f and ci an I 4 of Cord Ball fy nt r J L 4 With Some Y 4 e Q f Y Account Account Also so of the r t L YN i Biggest Baby eG t yr LY f. f r J r. r 1 I J I r rS C S I V. V t 1 P w h 1 r r J y 4 n 1 4 t Y b p. t A y o L p it D J rr MJ q l' l I r r r r j. j fi f car DoY L l Copyright Un Underwood erwood S Underwood This Is R. R E. E Madson 1 of Texas Biggest Bronco Buster Bronco Buster on Earth Shaking ng g 7 i Hands with Senator Morris 1 She Sheppard and of the Lone Star State Vr w r i Cowboy l Hei Height t Is Seven Feet Six Inches r ji t By Bv Clive Cliv I Ive Marshall f 1 D IG IG T bigger r biggest U 11 There is always something interesting about anything that is big and the bigger it is the more interesting it becomes until in the biggest we wech reach ch the wide-eyed wide awful compelI compelling compel compel- I f v 4 ling curiosity which fathered and mothered the t t. t museum and sideshow business long long before P. P T. T Barnum was ever dreamed of One Orie can scarcely glance over this page without without with with- w out recalling the time old-time sideshow and nd museum sometimes barker usual usually I believe referred to as the announcer and often as the lecturer It Itis Itis is easy to hear him bim begin And ClAnd now ladies and gentlemen if 11 you will win give your attention to the upper left hand corner comer of the page we have R R. E. E Madson the biggest buster bronco in the world Mr Madson Madsen is a son of the Lone Star state claiming Ranger Texas as Isis flis birthplace and home He stands stands' seven feet and six inches from the soles of his feet to the croWn crown of his head and though not a heavyweight heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- weight on his gigantic frame frame- has a well t body body- which is as sound as the mighty oak yet et supple and nd graceful as a whalebone whip A master horseman an expert with the rope a crack shot with both pistol and rifle and an allaround allaround allaround all- all around good fellow Mr Madson Masson has made a ho host st I of f friends in all o of the principal cities of America f The f. f Biggest Barber Passing now to the lower left hand corner of the page we h have ve Dir Mr Ir John Kelley the worlds world's biggest barber Mr Felley lives in Cincinnati Ohio and says that the only thing that he can buy ready-made ready to fit him bim is a a handkerchief Mr Kelley now stands seven feet four inches in his Bocks socks and got most of his growth before he was was out of his teens H He was once ind induced ced to join a circus as the tallest man on earth earl earth h but show life never appealed to him and after a brief three weeks before the public he went vent back to the razor and shaving brush a Mr Kelley had to stop wearing b ready-made ready clothes when he was 19 yews years cars old because he couldn't squeeze into the very largest large largest st sizes made B He wears a shirt which is is' larger than a size 1 17 7 and has to have all of his collars made to order It takes a sock three sizes 1 larger than any sold and a 12 shoe of extra wide last to cover his foot and his head is comfortable only in a 9 hat Kelley Keney is never troubled with Christmas presents of poorly selected neckties as the longet long long- est cst tics ties sold in the stores are far too short to knot after encircling his great neck C When Kelley Keney rides in a street car he has bas to j. stoop to get through the door and once inside he a i r L t. t is never a strap hanger no matter if the car ij i crowded a and d e every ery seat taken for his heig height t enI en- en I h. h r j Y i t l V t r ables him to hold on to the cross beams in inthe inthe the top car-top the straps are too low i Passing on toward the centre of the page ladies and gentlemen we have Lonny r vY t j jf bi ft f T L 71 1 1 1 1 aon 1 o UL J.- J. 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I s trw od Lonny Mason lason Is the Biggest and Fattest Boy Boyon I on Earth He Weighs Pounds Although Only 16 Years Old He Has a inch 64 Inch 64 Chest 1 i and lie He Is Still Stin Growing Growing- and fattest boy in the world Sixteen years old weighing weighing weigh- weigh in ing g poun pounds s he stands today without a peer in the realm of obesity This wonderful boy still in the growing growing growing grow grow- ing age has a chest measurement of or 64 Va 2 inches a thigh measuring 28 inches a calf 24 inches around and amI an an arm an nn arm ladies and gentlemen bi bigger ger than an that of Hn any prize-fighter prize that ever lived an arm actually measuring 23 3 inches in in circum erance It is needless need need- x less Jess to say that the hi high h cost of living means something to Lonny's father and mother for Lonny is f L I r f f fr 1 I y x The Thc Worlds World's X Bi Biggest est t k f y r i Barber R K John Kelley Lives in rF iy r Cincinnati O. O He Is 7 Feet 4 Inches Tall Once He lIe Was Wasa rr J L a Circus Sideshow Sideshow Side Side- 4 a show Giant Advertised as The Tallest c Man lan on onEarth Earth Photo Pr Pres III IlL Co Q d 1 e iv paper feature Barite Sel 1920 1429 i S r a 1 r. r l i j 1 i The Biggest Ball of Cord Could Unwind Pounds It Took Jay R R. Decatur of Peek Peeks Decatur and His Family Who Vho Helped a n hig big cater eater and all of his clothes have to be made to order But leaving our b barker announcer lecturer with his fat boy we might state that there is another another another an an- other boy right here in America who bids fair to eclipse the English lad Giantonio of Everett Mass is only 6 G years old and weighs pounds A normal baby at birth rapidly added to his avoirdupois until today he Ile heis heis is is considered the champion fat boy at his age of the world The youngster is perfectly healthy and romps about with his pla playmates mates like nn an ordinary boy though he eats more in a day daythan than his father and mother do in three Taking them a little younger we have the case of Baby Thompson the biggest infant on r record ord On Jan 11 1920 Mrs John Thompson of Oil Cit City Pa presented her husband with a baby boy which weighed at birth 1726 pounds The average weight of babies babics at birth is 7 l d pounds and it is rare that one tips the scales at atmore more than 10 pounds The new Thompson baby is the fourth in the family amiI and two of the others are arc twins The first born was of normal weight and this baby weighs more than both of the twins together weighed at the time of their birth In the upper right-hand right corner of the page we have the biggest ball of cotton cord in the world Maybe you only collect postage stamps or boxes or sea shells Anyway y qu will b be interested in the newest sort SOTt of collector The Biggest Cord Ball Jay R. R Decatur a wealthy retired merchant of P Peekskill N. N Y is the proud owner of what is said to be the largest ball of cotton cord in rn the world It weighs 80 pounds and if stretched along a roadway would cover coyer a distance of 40 miles This gigantic ball of twine is composed of lengths varying from six sL inches to two or three yards which Mr 1 Decatur has been assiduously collecting since since 1911 Two other known persons persona in the world own o large balls baIls of cord but Mr Decatur Dec claims that his ball baIl is longer fonger by five miles and heavier hea b by i ten n pounds than those of either of his f for r this unique record It uIt was while I was WiS in active business explained explained explained ex ex- Mr Decatur that I started to tomake make this ball It has always b been en a habit o of mine to savo save cord that came into the store and into the house I used the cord over again in in those days but after I retired from the store the thc accumulation became very rapid until r T had quite a n respectable ball of it Tl Ten Tien en in January 1911 I decided d just dust for the fun a o n the thc thing to see how big a ball I could collect It is is really am amazing zing how inter- inter J t yr J r j I 1 It 0 jJ f t F- F FL L Copyright H Herbert Forty orty Miles liles of Twine T It Weighs Eighty i skill kill N. N Y Nine Years to Make lake I It Mr- Mr Him to Make l It Are Shown Above ested one becomes be mes in such a pursuit I never see a piece of cord but what I pick it up Even when I am walking along the street sheet I po pounced ponce nce upon a n two-foot two length as greedily as if it were j spun of pure gold i Once a week 1 Mr r. r Decatur knots together er his j j haul and rolls it into a small ball Then once a 11 month the tho big biJ ball ban is taken from its stand at girl Hr Decatur's country home at Lake Mohegan N N. Y 3 where here it is on exhibition and the smaller ball ban is is' is j made part of the big one jj J The Biggest Bible 4 Some time ago a crusade was started by Willlam Will wm- J i lam iam Henry Fry son of the great English Quaker philanthropist Mrs Irs Elizabeth h Fry to make the the the-j year 1920 Bible Year throughout Christendom an and he planned to build as the principal feature of the world-wide world publicity campaign for the popularization of the Holy Scriptures Script the biggest Bible the world has hag ever seen scene The Bible as it s stands today measures firs firs' feet two VO inches in length three feet et six inches in width seven feet ten inches across when opened and laid flat fiat and weighs three-quarters three of a ton Twelve large goat skins were required for the binding of the book which is in rich red levant morocco leather of the thc finest quality r r dar r y M Mt Mr r r t r I Iy ryr yr y i f f Lf t U Or b ba a 9 C D SJ y r s ih 4 v vt t 4 4 r f J t t 6 ti y s N 5 1 j r rc JL rt b I r lri r ray of 4 C 1 r 7 1 S r rp r Sd wr rk ILd lam Co cl s I 4 IThe The Biggest Bible Is Five Feet Two Inches Long Three Feet Six Six Inches Wide and Weighs Three-Quarters Three of a Ton Every Verse from Genesis t to f. f Revelation Is Being Written by Hand I 1 The book boot contains sheets of tough paperboards paper paperboards boards which are sewed ved together with twine in th the J i old-fashioned old way around six strong hempen j rope ropes ropes each each rope containing 70 strands much thicker than the ordinary clothesline Four of these ropes are arc laced into half tin an inch lath thick which form the foundation for the leather binding In order to hasten the handling of the book during daring the various processes of binding a staging staging was built from the cross-beam cross of which depend cd ed an iron iron chain and pulley bloc block Without this t pulley arrangement it required six mento manipulate manipulate J ol of of late tho the volume No fewer than copies copeS c pies i the smallest Oxford Bibles can be contained contain within the compass of this en enormous book The Bible will wiIl be remarkable however er it size for everyone one of the tM other respects than its every will 1 w a Revelations texts from Genesis to written hand and signed by individuals in every is taught The contributions contributions con con- coun country where Christ Christianity anity tr will be written on slips provided by w the J Bible Crusade committee and each slip will wm contain con con- name and the writers writer's tain tarn the allotted verses About 2000 0 slips have already been written and ana al f put in place The fhe King Fang a and d Queen of England arc included in the list of contributors r lt pt l 70 k r. 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