BARBERS BOBBING WOMEN'S HAIR WITHOUT MALE PERMISSION WILL BE FINED IN BRAZIL
Sao Paulo, Brazil (JFK+50) On December 15, 1924, The Evening Star reports via The Chicago Daily News Company that in the Brazilian village of Jaboticabal*, the mayor "has decreed that any barber...who bobs a woman's hair without permission from...some male member of her family having legal authority over her will be fined 50 milreis**." That's about $6 in U.S. currency.
Claude O. Pike writes that Mayor Alfred O. Campos da Rocha Sa has stirred up a hornet's nest with his decree in a village of 2000 people.
It seems barbers are "losing money" while at the same time husbands are "cheering the mayor."
*Jaboticabal is a village located "a half hour's ride by automobile" from Sao Paulo, Brazil. It is named for a grape tree which produces a purplish-black fruit. Jaboticabal is home to UNESP University & has extensive sugar cane plantations.
**Milreis was the monetary unit of Portugal (before 1911) & Brazil (before 1942) equivalent to 1000 reis.
SOURCE
"Mayor Orders Fine For Bobbing Minus O.K. of Husbands," by Claude O. Pike, The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., December 15, 1924, Chronicling America, www.loc.gov/
