Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1916 — BARBER HAS SHAVED 243,960 [ARTICLE]

BARBER HAS SHAVED 243,960

Tonsorial Artist at Lorain, 0., Sayi He Has Had That Many In His Chair. Lorain, O. —Theodore Curtis, a Lorain barber, has just celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the begin* ning of his career. Curtis, who has kept account of every man he has shaved, says he has removed the whiskers of 243,960 men. “I have also cut enough hair to make 11 mattresses and to nkd 43,562 crutches,” said Curtis. / The barber has shaved s<jme of the country’s widely-known men, lnclud* Ing Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft, Senators Mark Hanna, Matt Qu&y, Albert Beveridge and Ben Tillman, “Doc” Cook, Buffalo Bill, Jesse Willard, Tod Sloan and Harry Thaw, “I would like to add Charles Evans Hughes to my list of notables,” observed Curtis.