Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — A Great Head. [ARTICLE]

A Great Head.

A man with a head two feet one and five-eighths inches in circumforonce, is a curiosity, and when Moses Hall, colored, of Owings Mills, walked into the stoie of C. B. Bates, recently, Mr. Ba es was not a little surprised. At first glance Hall’s head looked as if a 71 hut would fit it. That is an unusually large size, but when the hat was tried on It was too small. Then Mr. Bates bethought him olf of an old Derby which he had in his window off and on for over a year, with a placard stating that It would bo given to any one it would fit. Tne size was 71, which is tho laigost Mr. Bates Ufld sold In all his ten years’ experion o. After some search the hat was found and tried on, but to the disgust and astonishment of the storekeeper It was too small. It rested on tho back of Hall's head ns a 10 year-old boy s hat would rest on that t f an ordinary man. Mr. Hates then measured tho mans head and found that it would require a hat of 88 size. That Is twolve sizes larger than tho averago hat worn by man—Baltimore Amorhan.