Yesterdate: This day from Kolkata’s past, October 9, 1904

Amrita Bazar Patrika, a newspaper published in Calcutta, carried this advertisement for a hair tonic on its front page on this day. The product promised to be much more than a hair tonic.

The advertisement read: “Kaviraj N.N. Sen’s world-renowned KESHRANJAN for the Hair is a tonic, cleansing, invigorating preparation; it causes the hair to grow luxuriantly, keeps it soft and pliant, imparts to it the lustre and freshness of youth, eradicates dandruff, prevents hair from falling, cures baldness, debility of the brain, nervous
dizziness, Melancholia, shortsight, vertigo, &c. &c. Price per phial Re 1. Packing and postage As. 5.”

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