Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1898 — The Hair Tonic Woman Again [ARTICLE]

The Hair Tonic Woman Again

The Chicago Chronicle gives an account of the operations at the two aristocratic western suburbs of that city, Oak Park and River Forest; of a woman who was undoubtedly the same one who swindled the women of Rensselaer so shamefully, a few weeks ago The description given of the woman fits the one who was here very closely about the only difference being in the hair, which here was worn straight, and there was curled, but she could easily change the style of her hair. The scheme worked was exactly the same as here, including the proposed hair dressing parlors, the gathering up of hair for switches, and the selling of bottles of colored water for hair tonic and hair dye. The Chronicle estimates that the woman’s rake off at Oak Park and River Forest amounted to S3OO. It is a great pity that she can not be caught and properly punished.