Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1915 — RECORD-LENGTH BEARD. [ARTICLE]

RECORD-LENGTH BEARD.

Old Chap That Thinks Hie Chin Crop le Longest In the World—Trail# the Ground. York, Pa. —Joel Hunter of Buffalo Valley, near here, claims to possess the longest beard of any living man. Hunter’s beard, from Its source to Its end, measures 8 feet 10 Inches and trails on the ground when he walks. “Old Man” Hunter, as he is usually called by the people of Buffalo Valley, is a hermit and a very eceentric character. He lives ia a small hut a few miles from any neighbor and Is seldom seen by anybody. When asked how he sleeps at night with his long beard .he replied: "Oh, I jest tuck It under the covers, Tong with its owner.”