Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1895 — Barber’s Doom Is Sealed. [ARTICLE]

Barber’s Doom Is Sealed.

Shaving by machinery has been rendered easy by the construction of a machine reported to have been made by one Meloholr Farkas, a convict in the penitentiary of the city of Szegedin, in Hungary. Farkas was put to labor in the cabinet making shop of the prison, and, taking to his work with a will, he soon displayed great inventive ingenuity. With his shaving machine he is said to have shaved all the inmates of the prison, nearly 150 in number, within less than an hour’s time. August J. Boeltner, of Brooklyn, was stricken with paralysis of the lower limbs four years ago. Recently, under the doctor’s advice, he took to cycling, though at first he had to be held up by a man on each side of him and have his feet strapped to the pedals. Now he is completely recovered