Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1913 — Bear's Grease and Baldness. [ARTICLE]

Bear's Grease and Baldness.

In a recent volume pf reminiscences the wrlffcr states that baldness Is much more common now than in his early days, and ascribes the modern man’s loss of hair to the decrease in the use of “bear's grease/’ This pomade was made principally of lard colored and scented, but "hairdressers, many of whom called themselves ‘professors,’ used to advertise ‘the slaughter of another fine bear," exhibiting a canvas screen depicting In glaring colors a brown animal of elephantine proportions expiring in a sea of gore."