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Shaved but Not Cowed — Frank McManus’s bear, 1893
The San Francisco Examiner, Sunday, 8 January 1893, page 17. Article: “Shaved but Not Cowed.” Illustration: “The Shorn Bear of the Potrero.” Newspapers.com clipping.
Source content
The newspaper identifies Frank McManus as the proprietor associated with Whisky, a bear at the Union Hotel near the Union Iron Works. It relates the bear’s drinking, the shaving of his fur, encounters with dogs and references to a Keeley treatment. These are reported claims in a comic newspaper feature, not independently established events or medical findings.
The full image contains the article’s continuation at the top of the right-hand column, followed by the separate feature Heaps of Cast-Off Finery. That unrelated feature is not part of the bear story.
Provenance and research
Kevin supplied bear.jpeg and img.jpeg from the same newspaper account; these are not two independent sources. The citation identifies page 17. The illustration bears a claim that an Examiner staff artist sketched it from life.
Compare hotel directories and other contemporary reports before extracting additional biographical conclusions. Do not turn the humorous Keeley references into a confirmed medical fact about Frank.