Face Facts

“God has given you one face,
and you make yourselves another”

William Shakespeare

A 58 Year Old Bullet

W. V. Meadows of West Point, Georgia, was shot in the eye at the battle of Vicksburg on July 1, 1863.

Fifty-eight years later he unexpectedly coughed up the Civil War slug (as shown) – July 21, 1932

“The Devil’s Daughter”

Leona Young, of Norwich, NY, applies a blowtorch to her tongue. A colleague of professor Kongee, The Painless Wonder, Young called herself the Devil’s Daughter and performed with hot lead, volcanic explosions and a regulation plumber’s torch, which she passed over her exposed flesh. (March 3, 1938)

Mr. Asbestos Skin

Edmonton, Alberta, boasted a citizen with “asbestos skin”. It seems a Mr. H. H. Getty walked into the editorial offices of the Edmonton Bulletin and proceeded to prove his fire-resisting abilities to a bug-eyed staff.

Mr. Getty could hold a lighted match close to the skin on various parts of his body without an blistering or pain!(may 20, 1940)