Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1915 — MAN OF 73 GOES BAREFOOT [ARTICLE]

MAN OF 73 GOES BAREFOOT

Is Unshod Eight Months of the Year for Benefit of Health — Unique Theory. Kansas City, Kan. —When grass roots and mother earth come in contact with bare feet there is a sort of soothing electrical current transmitted through the body that rebuilds and invigorates the entire system, is the theory and practice of J. M. Halger of Carlton, Okla. Eight months in each year he spurns the pressure of leather on his feet and, with trousers rolled up nearly knee-high, attends to his farm. He has been in Kansas „City with no shoe or boot accompaniment and did not feel half as strange as people who looked at him.