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People Nowadays Harder To PleaseWinnipeg: Barber Claims That Old-Time Customers Were More Easily SatisfiedEdgar Doerr. barber in Winnipeg for 50 years, claims customers of the early days were more easily satisfied than those of the present day—excepting of course, the old-timer with the handle-bar moustache. which had to be trimmed just so—or else.Back in 1S8S when he came from Perry Title. Missouri, where ho was born in 1870, it was just ordinary hand-clippers for a haircut and a straight razor for a shave. Now the customer has to be swathed in hot towels before and after a shave. The speedy electric clipprs have made the old-time hand clippers almost obsolete.Most notable of his customers around the turn of the century included the late Sir Hugh John Macdonald, Sid Rodmond P. Roblln, Hon. Thomas Greenway, all former premiers of Manitoba, and Henry M. Stanley, explorer who searched for Doctor David Livingstone, lost in South Africa.
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Durham Review
Durham, Ontario, CA
Thu, Jan 12, 1939
Page 3
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Porter C.
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