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"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Fairfield, Iowa
Wednesday, May 6, 1925
Front Page and Page 4

NO. 9--PERCY JAMES EASTON

Now, don't get excited. Tisn't a prescription the gentleman is filling so carelessly. Percy James Easton doesn't fill prescriptions that way. Was just pouring out a bit of furniture polish when he heard something that distracted his attention. 'Twas the voice of a forty-five year old flapper coming over the partition from the Beauty Parlor in the rear of the store.

"Don't see why these scientific and pharmacist sharks don't invent something to keep us young," gurgled the voice, "so a body woldn't have to be coming to these places all the time to be fixed up."

'Twas about all Percy James could do to refrain from rushing in and telling the old frill to be patient--that he had really discovered the Fountain of Youth and would have its product on sale at his store exclusively in a little while. The old dame was talking about a little matter Percy knows all about when she spoke of perpetual youth.

Comes about this way. Percy went with some of the other fellows over to France and put down the big German uprising. Percy's job wasn't to kill off the Germans--if it had been the war would have been over much earlier--but to keep the Americans alive, by reason of his being in the medical corps. During his nearly two years in the army Percy got next to a lot of valuable pharmaceutical formulas, and during his fifteen months in France he earned the gratitude of an old woman--sort of a witch doctor. On her deathbed she called Percy in and imparted to him a secret formula for perpetual youth. She lacked but one ingredient, she said, to make the potion an absolute cinch.

So Percy James is planning to pull something on us one of these days--as soon as he discovers the other necessary ingredient--which will make the beauty doctors hunt up jobs clerking at Woolworth's or some thing. You see, Percy hasn't gone piddling around looking for a fabulous Fountain of Youth as silly Ponce de Leon did; he's gone at the thing scientifically. But, until he has time to find this other necessary ingredient he suggest using some of the makeshifts he has for sale at his store, like Karnak for instance, which cures most everything from cancer to the tobacco habit.

But perhaps the greatest scientific discovery which Percy James Easton will give to the world is his hair tonic. It's a marvel. You are not asked to accept anyone's word about its wonderful powers. Gaze on the picture presented here and note that strong, virogous Charleychapinese mustache adorning the lip of the discoverer. This was grown absolutely with no other aid than Percy's justly-famed tonic--and you will note the hair grows only where the soil has been fertilized with the tonic. To grow 'em longer you have only to use the tonic longer; to grow em flowing you flow the tonic on.

You may gather from this that Percy James Easton is rather devoted to pharmaceutical research. C'rect. He'd rather be rown (sic) in the basement monkeying with a lot of mysterious vials and retorts, and perfecting some of the really fine medical and dental formulas he has worked out. But the trifling matter of earning a living keeps him at the less exciting task of selling his Rex-all products, Edison phonographs, jerking frothy beverages and ice cream at the soda fountain, etc.

Percy James Easton is another outsanding example of the many young men in Fairfield who have won their way into the Madegood family by strict attention to business, by knowing their stuff, and by giving the public service. 'Twas nearly fifteen years ago Percy bought an interest in the Jericho drug store. In these fifteen years he's been right on the job all the time. But he owns the store himself now. Pretty good record of making good. But we question the wisdom of a widespread sales of his Perpetual Youth discovery--when he gets it perfected. And it might be well for Senator Fulton and Representative Will Long to introduce into the next legislature a bill providing some restrictive measures on this thing: you see 'twould be a terrible thing to contemplate having to live always with some people we know. Sale of this thing ought to be confined to just a select few of us.