Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1910 — CRIPPLED, BUT STILL IN THE RING. [ARTICLE]

CRIPPLED, BUT STILL IN THE RING.

SG The hold-up of 15c for shaves /by the local- barbers’ trust still continues, although it is not generally believed they are making as much money at the trust price as they were at the old universal price the country over of 10c. Many patrons now shave but once where they formerly did twice, while dozens of others have bought safety razors or resurrected their old-style razor and are doing their own shaving.!

Those who once acquire the safety razor habit seldom go . back to the barber shop, so convenient and easy is it to mow off their beard with this style of razor. As previously stated by The Democrat, Rensselaer is the only county seat town -we know of where the barbers have entered into a combine to boost shaving prices to 15c, or where that price is. charged, of perhaps some swell hotels or big railroad stations in the big cities, where the barbers do not care to cater to only the so-caVled high-toned trade. •