Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1919 — HAIR TONIC BOOMS AS DRINK [ARTICLE]

HAIR TONIC BOOMS AS DRINK

Porto Rico Discovers Scalp Remedy Contains a 60 Per Cent - “Kick.” San Juan, Porto Rico.--Hair tonfg has leaped in favor as a drink in Ponce. In one week more than 4,350 bottles of a kind manufactured by a local firm under a formula registered with the insular government was sold in that city. The tonic, said to contain more than 60 per cent alcohol, is reported to have been selling at 15 cents a drink, despite the fact that it contained drugs which, although reported to be of benefit to the hair when externally applied, are said to be somewhat harmful to the system when imbibed.