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BOBBED HAIR SAVES COWS LIVES

Among the exhibits in the museum attached to the Royal Veterinary College, London, which is now making an appeal to the public for £50,000 fon the purpose of' rebuilding, is a -collection of hairpins which have been extracted from cows and bullocks in the course of post-mortem examinations.

These ,3iairpins were mostly accidentally mixed with the animal's feed and swallowed, the result being invariably death to the animal. "Before the days of bobbing and shingling one could count along a busy street hundreds of hairpins which had been . shed by women passers-by." was the statement to a Press representative. : "The same thing happened whereever women congregated in the country districts, such as at picnics, and they were also occasionally dropped by dairymaids. The cow which inadvertently swallowed one of these hairpins was practically doomed to death.

"Scores upon scores of cases have been traced to hairpins, but since bobbed hair has become the fashion such misadventures through Hairpins have practically ceased, and it can truthfully be said that the new h'.rsuto fashion for women is annually laving the lives of thousands of animals.

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Shannon News, 22 April 1927, Page 1

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BOBBED HAIR SAVES COWS LIVES Shannon News, 22 April 1927, Page 1

BOBBED HAIR SAVES COWS LIVES Shannon News, 22 April 1927, Page 1

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