The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-09
John c. Ford Has Succeeded in Manu-.
featuring Device Which viii
Serve the
81 World.
TREATMENT MACHINE
Ingenuity and Unusual Mechanical
Ability Produces an Appliance
lot Merit for TonsoriaI
Business.

What is claimed by two hundred or
more prominent physicians, commerce
ial professional men OF Keokuk and
other cities to be device which will
revolutionize entirely the tonsorial
business OF the United States and
eventually the world, has been invent
ed by one Of the Oldest men in Keo-
klk, though undoubtedly. one of the
shrewdest all-rountl mechanics In the
country.
John C. Ford, IS years old, one of
the premiers of the mechanical struct-
tural world, after years OF planning and
devising, today has realized the child
OF his brain in materiai.1ed form, an
invention which occurred to him as
feasible one little more than yea,
ago, though the general possibilities
Of air compression In producing pow
or machines, has been one of the
thoughts in his ingenious mind during
decades of work.
Supplies Need of Years.
The electrical air COMPRISING de-
vice built by Mr.. Ford is called THE
Ford Treatment Machine, and sup
plies need in barbering and massage
which has never been felt, yet has
had no champion to contrive. Capable
of both hair and facial massage and
a thorough eradicator of impurities of
the head and other portions of the
body, the new machine if recent in
yentive construction has been tested
and proved to be so satisfactory
to the several hundred that those who
have examined the operations of the
treatment machine are enthusiastic
about its simple manipulation yet
power of accomplishment of the pur-
pose for which it has been built.
Organize Manufacturing Company.
DESTROYS that the possibilities of
this wonderful little machine be
placed before the public, with finan-
cial assistance of C. F. Mcfarland,
one of Keokuks prominent business
men, Mr.. Ford will im:aediately com
mence the manufacture of the Ford
Treatment Machine. An organization
known as the Ford Specially Com
pany' has been formed and number
of orders which have already been
placed with the concern will be filed
as fast as the shampoo and massage
machines can be turned out.
From crude quarters in the work
shop located in the top of Mr.. Fords
barb, large compartment will be
arranged above the Rees- Mcfarland
Paper Company's ware rooms on
South Fifth street.
Local Barber Shops Purchase.
Thoroughly convinced that the
Ford invention is the ultimate limo
walton for its use several Keokuk
barber shops have placed orders with
the new company and many Others
here and elsewhere have become in
terested and SO won by the many com
mendable features OF the device that
produce them one or more each, as
the sizes Of their shops may require
The machine will be marketed al
500 each and will include wiring fol
the battery and sets of from six
dozen aluminium sterile combs and
skin suction appliances that are usec
in massaging and extraction of dand
ruff and other dirt accumulations from
the hair.
In case the manufacturers are able
to produce the machines at less cos
than one hundred dollars each, the!
will reduce the price accordingly Mr.
Ford will attend to the manufacturing
of the treatment appliances and Mr.
Mcfarland, his co-partner, will man
age the affairs Of the concern aside
from ordering the material for con
struction. Both gentlemen will make
trip to ST. Louis and other cities II
the near future to demonstrate th'
use OF the Ford Specially Company
product. Orders for elg.c or ten o
the machines for local barber shop
and private families, have been re
ceived already.
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Something Aobut the Machine.