Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1917 — WHISKER BAN IN HOBOKEN [ARTICLE]

WHISKER BAN IN HOBOKEN

All Growths Between Eyes and Adam’s Apple Must Be Chopped Down. Hoboken. —The mustaches of Hoboken—long burdened with foam and tortured with Wilhelm bends —now are going away from here. First the city employees are to become barefaced, and after that the entire population is expected to come out into the open and live long, frank-chlnned and sanitary lives. The fall in Hoboken was signaled when Dr. Joseph Stack, chief medical Inspector of the board of health, notified the city employees that all that stood between them and perfect health was their germ-carrying lip hedge. In an announcement circulated by a heavily bearded messenger that inspector called attention to the unspeakable bearer and begged all who observed to remove instanter all the facial underbrush. Persons who have been comfortable for years felt itchy after reading the physician’s masterpiece. Michael Whalen, who has long been the truant officer of Hoboken, was the first to remove the menace, and boys who had carefully avoided him for two full terms were snared and forced Into a life of educational endeavor. Today Doctor Stack, who has a reasonably huge black mustache himself, starts doing without It, and within a few weeks official Hoboken will undoubtedly be beardless as a babe.