Hair today, gone tomorrow

  

Rushville Jacksonian, May 1860

Hair dye is vile wash, but the article that will naturally restore the color of the hair, the changing of which to gray, being an indication of a lack of proper secretions, is truly a valuable medicine.

Prof. Wood's Hair Tonic -- if the certificates of the leading minds over the Union do not falsify -- is the only safe remedy for baldness, dryness, premature change of color, and the several evidences of a lack of secretions at the roots of the hair, which can be found.

Quick preparations abound and "hair tonics" fill every "corner grocery" in the country. Avoid all "hair tonics" unless known to be the preparation of a man whose celebrity has become world-wide. Do not let any nostrum vendor experiment upon your hair.

Touch nothing you have not good reason to believe is all that it purports to be.

Prof. Wood has earned by years of severe test of the virtues of his preparation, his present fame. Over 150 certificates are before us of the value of this Hair Restorative, from parties who have tried it. 

Use no other.

Caution: Beware of worthless imitations, as several are already on the market. 

NOTE: Jacksonian was a Democratic Party newspaper that published in Rushville during the years leading up to the Civil War. Many of these papers ceased to exist during the war due to excessive criticism that claimed they were pro-slavery. Most of them were in substance more opposed to the Whigs on general political grounds than they were to freedom for slaves. This Prof. Wood article was a paid ad that appeared in many papers for a few years, and disappeared sometime around 1866.