Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1914 — NEW CURE FOR BALDNESS [ARTICLE]

NEW CURE FOR BALDNESS

Yes, they say a new cure for baldness has been discovered in Boston, warranted to grow hair on a bone or whiskers on a cake of ice. So the man with a clearing on his pate will come in for a few more bromidlc joshes from the- gentlemen with incandescent imaginations. It may serve to check the torrent to remark that it is believed that the first cure for baldness was discovered in the early part of the reign of that Pharaoh of Egypt who was drowned while chasing Moses and Aaron on moving day for the land of Goshen. At any. rate the Pharaoh was bald and physicians of his time peddled remedies fdr baldness, so there is a case of circumstantial evidence. As baldnese has persisted until this date, it is to be presumed that some of these baldness cures have been bald fakes. The Boston cure may be a perfectly legitimate thing, able to do all that is claimed for it—but there may be persons who will prefer baldnese to hair, not considering hairlessness as much of an affliction as constant visits to the barber shop. There are all sorts of opinions among us, you know.— Detroit Free Press. ,