Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1898 — Hair Tonic is Cheap Now. [ARTICLE]

Hair Tonic is Cheap Now.

There is now quite a collection of bottles of all shapes and sizes in Fendig’s drug store window’. Some are filled with a pale reddish and some with a dark colored liquid. A placard pasted above them says “this beautiful collection of hair tonic was bought by some of Rensselaer’s 400. It is now’ being sold at this corner by C. C. Warner.” The reddish liquid is called hair restorer. It is supposed to be rainwater colored with a little aniline red. The dark is hair dye, its constituents are the same as the restorer, except that the coloring matter is arnica- instead of aniline. Mr. Warner is making a collection of the bottles among: his lady friends. The bottles are a nondescript lot and seemed to hate been picked up by the hair restorer women as they went from house to house, and filled at the first pump they came to. One of the bottles in Warner's collection is an emptied olive bottle; another a Hood’s sarsaparilla bottle.