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Show WANTED. $T' FOR A SHAVE . - - -' - St. touis Barber Charged I Hoosicr.; Visitor ; Hifcli I Figure and Got Arrested i ST LOUIS, Aug. 30.. Jeff erson. Thomas Thom-as of Winchester, Ind.. caused the ar rest of Joseph White, a barber at Union Station," who taxed. him $7 for a shave. Thomas reached here and dropped into in-to a barber shop. He asked for a shave. - "Hair needs a 1 trimming.!, suggested the barber. The shears - were run through his locks befare-Thomas could protest ' "Dandruff. whew! Something: awful !" exclaimed the . barber. 'Til Just put in a little of my cure. Guarantee it to remove re-move dandruff and stop falling hair."' ' That finished the tonsorialist suggested suggest-ed a shampoo, and then, he went into the shave question. He lathered and scraped the face of his customer. Then he massaged it and followed It up with a face wash. He brilllantined the eyelids eye-lids and put "dope" on his upper lip. The negro porter was busy on the shoes worn by Thomas- and' he was finally turned out of the chair "a thing of beauty," as the barber put it. "Seven dollars!" said the barber when Thomas asked for hjs bill. t -"What?" screamed the- victim. . . "I said $7, and it's cheap at that," the barber declared. . . Thomas kicked, and . then came the arrest of White. The case will be tried in -the Police court. |