Beard Generators

Advertised in the Illustrated Police News - 4 April 1885

Advertised in the 1870s. I think it's also making his eyelashes grow.

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Posted By: Alex - Mon Nov 25, 2013
Category: Hair and Hairstyling

Comments

I have some "bearded clam" tonic. It's free if I get to apply it.

Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 11/25/13 at 03:22 PM

Reminds me of a snippet of a song I heard as a kid:

Step right up, for I am the Yankee Trader.
My elixir can make the deaf to walk,
The lame to see, the blind to talk.

Posted by KDP on 11/25/13 at 05:11 PM

More snake oil!

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/25/13 at 08:05 PM

BD... I guess you haven't visited Brazil?

Posted by BMN on 11/26/13 at 12:10 AM

@BMN .. The closest I have been to Brazil is Galapagos and the southern Caribbean.

Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 11/26/13 at 09:38 AM

Genius again! I bet he wears magneto underwear, too.

Posted by Richard Bos on 11/26/13 at 09:57 AM

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