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Tho victims. thnron^hlv frifrfrt.pnerl. tions.)THE “HUMAN HORSE”CREATESA SENSATION—A GREAT FREAKWears Heavy Horseshoes and Harness and Pulls Wagon Weighing 300 Pounds—Eats as Much as a Horse.George Asher, the “human horse,” is in Joplin, with horseshoes on hisfeet and harness around his body,pulling an empty 300-pound wagon around. Asher lives 7 Mi miles south of Joplin on his farm, and after husking his corn crop, he goes to walnut groves and gets his wagon full of nuts. With 60 bushels of nuts in the wagon, Asher has been known to go at a trot, up hill and down, owing to his wonderful physical strength. Heis a single man.Asher is 40 years of age and has pulled a wagon ever since he was 9 years old. He has no horses at his farm but does the plowing by getting into the harness and with a boy helper guiding the plow he turns furrows in the fields.“I don't need a horse,” said Asher, as he wandered into the Tribune office : last night. “I kin pull the wagon by myself, and if I want to go apv place, why I can walk. Yep, I am 40 years old]! weigh 180 pounds now—getting skinny ’cause I weighed 15 last year.I guess I’m working too blamed hard.I was plowin' last week and it was kind of rough work. Naw, I makeenough money working. I used to think about goin’ in the theayters, butI changed my mind. I couldn't standhavin' all the people lookin 'at me,” he said in answer to a question why he did not go on the stage.Wears Horseshoes.“I used to be with the Buffalo Bill show, though—was strong man, and pulled down a chunk of money, but I got tired of it and wanted to go back to the hills. Yep, I wear the horseshoes on the soles of my shoes and mule shoes on the heels. They keep me from slippin’, but weigh over four pounds each.”Asher can be found at the Auditorium skating rink every night, practicing skating. “I haint had on ice skates fer over 18 years, and these pesky things slip so,” he said. “I’m practicing for the Thanksgiving day doin’s at the rink and I am after the prize. I am going to pull a wagon and load, both weighing a Tialf ton, and I reckon that ^/jU be comicalenough win the prize.”Hearing of Asher, several saloon men have decided to provide a unique contest, being a wheelbarrow race from Sixth and Main streets to Eighteenth and Main streets, to be Thanksgiving day in the afternoon. Asher is quite a sprinter and will be(Continued on page 2, column 2.)❖4**I4*❖****♦♦
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Joplin Morning Tribune
Joplin, Missouri, US
Fri, Nov 22, 1912
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