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Robert Wadlow, the tallest man in history, played at W.J. Reeder & Son's shoe repair shop in Upper Alton as a child.
The man who would become Pope Francis always bought his shoes in the same small store. And now, the remarkably ordinary ...
As news of the pope’s death traveled across the globe, observers fondly remembered a man who bought his own eyeglasses, got ...