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June 15, 2013

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Abraham Lincoln grew a beard in late 1860 after getting advice from an 11-year-old New York girl named Grace Bedell, who wrote, “You would look a great deal better, for your face is so thin.” After Lincoln became the first bearded U.S. president, the Illustrated News of New York made a bogus claim that the president had used a hair-growing product called Bellingham’s Stimulating Onguent, and “with this extraordinary paste he soon started the manly adornment.” Bellingham’s just happened to be an Illustrated News advertiser.

Source : M. Jaco and S Benzkofer  | Chicago Tribune

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