Illinois 1970 - Wiley and the Hairy Man - Tirademan!

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Tirademan found a book by this name, but I have no idea if this is the same one.  Published in the Belleville (IL) News-Democrat on December 08, 1970, this is one of the latest articles or advertisements I found.  A Minnesota TV station aired the drama Wiley and the Hairy Man in 1948 and a 1949 article from Michigan tells how a sculptor was inspired by a book of the same title about "an Alabama boy and his mother who outwitted the devil on three occasions."  In 1953, a Wisconsin high school student won a forensic contest for his "humorous declamation" of the same name.