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Naked Joe

March 27, 2013October 9, 2017 by Bill Donahue

In August, 1913, pudgy middle-aged Joe Knowles stepped naked into the woods of Maine, to see if he could live as a primitive man. When he returned home to Boston two months later, clad in a bearskin,  200,000 people greeted him.

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