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Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy, Russian Sideshow Performer

Fedor Jeftichew AKA Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy (1868 - January 31, 1904) was a Russian sideshow performer afflicted with hypertrichosis. He was 5' 8" tall, had only four or five teeth, spoke Russian, German, a little English, and dressed like a Russian cavalryman. In 1884, he signed with P. T. Barnum. Barnum advertised him as 'the most prodigious paragon of all prodigies secured by P. T. Barnum in fifty years. The Human Skye Terrier, the crowning mystery of nature's contradictions.' He toured Europe with Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth in 1901 and 1902. He died in Greece in 1904 while on tour of pneumonia. The Wonder Book of Freaks and Animals in the Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth, 1898.

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Title: Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy, Russian Sideshow Performer

Caption: Fedor Jeftichew AKA Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy (1868 - January 31, 1904) was a Russian sideshow performer afflicted with hypertrichosis. He was 5' 8" tall, had only four or five teeth, spoke Russian, German, a little English, and dressed like a Russian cavalryman. In 1884, he signed with P. T. Barnum. Barnum advertised him as 'the most prodigious paragon of all prodigies secured by P. T. Barnum in fifty years. The Human Skye Terrier, the crowning mystery of nature's contradictions.' He toured Europe with Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth in 1901 and 1902. He died in Greece in 1904 while on tour of pneumonia. The Wonder Book of Freaks and Animals in the Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth, 1898.

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