Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1915 — Savannah Man Has a Beard That Is Some Beard [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Savannah Man Has a Beard That Is Some Beard

SAVANNAH, GA.—-When any young man stands flat footedly on thd threshold of life and makes up hie medium-sized mind to accomplish something definite in the world, he is deserving of something. And this applies to Dr.

Sam Durham, the discus thrower, who lives here and who resolved 25 years ago to grow a long beard. He. too, deserves something, a shave, for instance. At the time that Doctor Durham was graduated as a physician he floundered around in a boy’s size office for three weeks without having anyone even ring his bell by mistake. “Here," he said, “this will never, and I speak with determination, do,’*

Then he cast about for some nifty business move. He searched through hi* pockets to find what moneys he had available, and having counted it, said: “I will grow a beard.” Today as Doctor Durham approaches you you falter between two deci B l<ms— to shoot or to run. From an upper window he resembles a blonde Niagara, from a cellar doorway he looks like the forests of Yellowstone, at an angle of 34 5-8 degrees he looks like a sight Of late Doctor Durham has taken to braiding the beard and wearing it wrapped about his waistcoat. Only twice in his life his he allowed it to fall to its full length in public; once at the Atlanta exposition in 1895 and again in 1904 at the World's Fair at St Louis. The spectators are kicking about it yet