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The Willow Bunch Giant. Joseph Edouard Beaupré, born January 9, 1881, in Willow Bunch , Saskatchewan. Around 21 years old, when he choose the life of the circus, he measured 7’ 11" and weighed 365 pounds. His neck measured 21 inches in circumference, and his hands 12 and a half inches from the wrist to finger tips. His thorax (chest) measured 56 inches and his shoes, a size 22, always had to be made special order.
He was a very gentle man who wanted to be a rancher. Edouard Beaupré died of tuberculosis on July 3, 1904, around 1:15 a.m. at the Emergency Hospital on the World’s Fair Ground in St. Louis. https://www.etsy.com/listing/191347388
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“Frieda Pushnik the “Half-Woman” - posed on a bar stool. The back was signed “Good Luck” by Frieda herself in 1943.
Frieda was born without arms or legs in Conemaugh, Pennsylvania. Her condition was said to be the result of a botched appendectomy on her pregnant mother. In 1933, at he age of nine she appeared at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Odditorium at the Chicago World’s fair as the “Armless Legless Girl Wonder”. She performed in 1939 at the New York World’s fair and also with Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey’s sideshow from 1943 to 1955. She died from bladder cancer at the age of seventy-seven in Costa Mesa, California.
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