Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1918 — LARGE FEET GETS HIM OFF [ARTICLE]

LARGE FEET GETS HIM OFF

Negro Is Discharged From Army Because of Enormous Pedal Extremities. San Antonio, Tex.—Private Ivey Cleveland, negro. Twelfth company. Third battalion, One Hundred and Six-ty-fifth Depot brigade. Camp Travis, is going back to the Brazos “bottoms.” where shoes are not essentiaL He will take with him an honorable discharge, as Re has the biggest feet of any man who ever trod the pardde ground at Camp Travis. He arrived at the ramp wearing a pair of No. 14 brogans, which were too small. By and by Cleveland’s No. J4’s began to wear out, and army officers tried to find a shoe to ftt him. They tried a pair of No. 12, double E shoes, but Cleveland could not begin to get his feet in them. Rather than go to the expense of having shoes made at • cost of sls or S2O. Private Ivey wa» given his honorable, discharge.