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GREETINGS
We prize the endorsement, co-operation, and support of friends and
co-workers through which has been created an Institution that stands out as
an heroic achievement in the economic life of Our Group.
To you, as one of the millions of citizens who may speak with pride of
PORO COLLEGE, this Booklet is presented.
We trust the pictorial and word story which follows may prove interesting
to our many friends as well as helpful to the many thousands of loyal PORO
Agents throughout the World.
Sincerely yours,
PORO COLLEGE
PORO CORNER
Pendleton and St. Ferdinand Aves.
ST. LOUIS, MO., U. S. A.
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ANNIE M. POPE TURNBO-MALONE
Founder
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Lovejoy, III.
1900-1902
History
PORO COLLEGE is the fruition of years of hard labor and endeavor. The
history of the Institution must necessarily be in its nature a sketch of the
life of Mrs. Annie M. Pope Turnbo-Malone, the Founder, so inseparably are
her life and personality interwoven with the Institution.
Mrs. Malone was born on a farm and spent her early childhood in Metropolis,
111. Very early in life she lost both parents. She attended the public grade school
of Metropolis, and later, through the assistance of her brothers and sisters, attended
the public high school of Peoria, 111. Very poor health obliged her to abandon
high school. Early in life she manifested a fondness for hair-dressing. As a child
she delighted in dressing the hair of her sisters and associates.
On leaving school she very naturally turned to hair work—an art in which
she had already won the appreciation of the community in which she lived. Later,
with a view of developing this art, she resumed the study of chemistry, a subject
in which she had become particularly interested while in high school. After a
period of research, Mrs. Malone evolved a Preparation for the hair and scalp
which she named "Wonderful Hair Grower". She and her sisters
used this Preparation on their hair and scalps with amazing results.
This led to further research work, and other Preparations for use in
connection with "Wonderful Hair Grower" followed.
Mrs. Malone began the manufacture of these Preparations
at Lovejoy, 111., in 1900. Thoroughly convinced of the merit
of the Preparations she began by house to house canvass to
acquaint the public with her Preparations by prevailing upon
women to permit her to treat their hair and scalps. Reports of
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amazing results obtained by those who received her treatments spread, and
"Wonderful Hair Grower" became noted in Lovejoy and nearby towns.
A St. Louis friend, learning of the efficacy and merit of her Treatments
and Preparations and realizing the commercial possibilities, encouraged
Mrs. Malone to remove the business to St. Louis, where she came in 1902,
locating at 2223 Market Street. The wonderful results which she had
secured through her Treatments and Preparations at Lovejoy were not
entirely unknown in St. Louis, and shortly she had a clientele of en¬
thusiastic patrons in her new field.
In 1904 she spent several months traveling throughout the South
advertising and demonstrating her Methods and Preparations. The
result of her tour was an immediate increase in the business. The demand
for "Wonderful Hair Grower" soon became so great that unscrupulous
dealers began to offer imitations to the public under the same name, and
it became necessary for the protection of the public as well as for the
protection of her business, to place the Preparations under a copyrighted
trade-name; so the name "PORO" was adopted in 1906.
The business outgrew the Market Street quarters,
and contrary to the advice of sincere friends who felt the
undertaking too great, Mrs. Malone rented the premises
at 3100 Pine Street. To this location the business was
removed in 1910. The business continued to grow rapidly.
During the winter of 1913-1914 the responsibilities of
the business so heavily weighed on Mrs. Malone, and her
Where the Business
Was First Housed,
in St. Louis.
1902-1910.
2223 Market St.,
St. Louis
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health became so impaired that she was compelled to cease business
activities. Delegating the temporary conduct of the business to
trusted employes, arrangements were made for a trip through the
West that she might regain her health.
Mr. and Mrs. Malone regard the present development of their interests as an
opportunity for service—a beginning for the bigger things they hope to achieve.
Just at this time Prof. Aaron Eugene Malone, Principal of the
Lincoln Public School of Quincy, Illinois, and a former schoolmate
whom she had not seen for fourteen years, stopped in St. Louis
enroute West. This chance meeting resulted in their union in
marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Malone toured the West immediately follow¬
ing their wedding, and it was during this trip that they planned the
new PORO COLLEGE. The present PORO COLLEGE is their
own conception, and in many respects is one of the most unique and
most complete institutions in the World.
Marking Our Growth.
Our Next Home
1910-1918
3100 Pine St., St. Louis
Ground was broken for PORO COLLEGE Building in October,
1917. The building was completed and occupied in November, 1918.
Such was the growth of the business during the period of its con¬
struction that the building was found inadequate when ready for
occupancy. PORO ANNEX Building was immedi¬
ately planned and erected. This building was com¬
pleted and occupied in November, 1920.
The growth of the business, even during the period of economic depression
following the World War, has been steady and substantial. Much of the neighboring
property has been acquired to provide for future expansion.
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Hair
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A Plant Beautiful Reflecting the Results of Real Service Rendered
PORO CORNER.
PORO COLLEGE
St. Ferdinand & Pendleton Aves.
ST. LOUIS, MO., U. S. A.
PORO COLLEGE Building, PORO ANNEX Building, and PORO GARAGE Building, with
equipment, represent investments of $550,000, $168,000, and $32,000, respectively—a total Plant invest¬
ment of $750,000.
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Our Aims and Purposes—
To contribute to the economic betterment of Race Women.
To train to useful lives.
To develop proficiency.
To encourage thrift and industry.
To awaken latent forces.
To inspire to higher things through the inculcation of ideals
of personal neatness and pride, self-respect, physical and [F=2=
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PORO COLLEGE is consecrated to the uplift
of humanity—Race women in particular.
'Porous Economic Advantages
SEVENTY-FIVE thousand Race women throughout the world have become
Agents of PORO COLLEGE. These members of "The Great PORO
Organization" have benefited through profits derived from PORO. Thousands
are prosperous through their practice of the PORO SYSTEM OF SCIENTIFIC
HAIR AND BEAUTY CULTURE.
Homes are being acquired.
Families are being provided for.
Children are being schooled.
Thousands, awakened to their own latent powers, are being made
happy through their achievements.
It may be conservatively stated that PORO COLLEGE is affording a
pi more far-reaching economic opportunity to a greater number of Race
women than is any other one commercial enterprise.
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THE PORO Buildings are fire-proof, being of brick, reinforced concrete and steel construction.
PORO COLLEGE Building and PORO ANNEX Building are three-story structures with
M ezzanine floors between the first and second stories, and are equipped with passenger and
freight elevators, there being an automatic passenger elevator in PORO COLLEGE Building, which
ascends to the Roof Garden.
Located in PORO COLLEGE Building are the Instruction Department and Beauty Parlor,
Lobby, Auditorium, General Office, Cafeteria, Dining Department, Sewing Shop, Dormitories,
Guests' Rooms, and the Apartments in which Mr. and Mrs. Malone live.
In the PORO ANNEX Building are the Shipping Department, Manufacturing Laboratories,
Laundry, Filling and Finishing Department, Bakery, Publicity Department, and thousands of feet
of floor space for the storing of chemicals.
PORO GARAGE Building, a one-story brick structure to the rear of PORO COLLEGE Build¬
ing, houses our automotive equipment. In this building are two sections for the parking of cars, a fully
equipped work-shop, lavatory, bathroom, and an office for the mechanic-in-charge.
A force of one hundred and seventy-five uniformed employes, ranging in ages
from sixteen to eighty-eight, constitute the personnel. Many who are untrained and
inexperienced on entering the employ of PORO COLLEGE, develop into proficient,
valuable workers. Males comprise about one-eighth of the employed force. Twenty-
five or more High School and Normal College students are employed in various capac¬
ities after school hours and on Saturdays.
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A beautiful and comfortable lobby is the
welcoming entrance to PORO COLLEGE.
Allegorical paintings adorning the walls, old
rose draperies, roomy overstuffed chairs, ma¬
hogany writing desks, and artistic tile flooring
create an atmosphere which impresses the
entrant that PORO COLLEGE is a sound
business institution.
Information Bureau Located in Lobby
Partial View of the Lobby
Courteous, alert clerks cheerfully
receive our students, agents, and vis¬
itors. Our Information Bureau pro¬
vides guides to show visitors through
the Plant. Stamps and money orders
are sold, and city gas bills may be paid
at this desk.
speaker is secured or a
program rendered by em- A Partial View oj Poro Auditorium
ployes. Through the encouragement of the Management some very novel and entertaining play¬
lets have been written and produced by members of the PORO Organization.
While the auditorium, which
seats nine hundred, was built pri¬
marily to serve the needs of the
Institution, it is available and is
frequently used by religious, frater¬
nal, civic, and social organizations
for meetings, entertainments, lec¬
tures, and recitals.
View of the Stage
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From these two offices Mr. and Mrs.
Malone direct their many activities.
They are the sole owners of PORO
COLLEGE and personally supervise
the business. Besides their business in¬
terests which receive their very close
attention, they devote much of their
time to welfare and community problems.
The phenomenal development of PORO
COLLEGE to its present vast proportions may
be properly ascribed to efficient products, honest
and superior service, a high standard of business
ethics, loyalty and co-operation of employes and
agents, and the application of Christian prin¬
ciples in the conduct of the Institution.
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THIRTY clerks and stenographers constitute the Office personnel. These have been recruited
from all sections of the country. Some are products of leading colleges and commercial schools.
However, some most proficient workers in this office have received their commercial training
in their present positions. Untrained, inexperienced workers, through employment in this office,
acquire practical commercial training and are developed into proficient invoicers, typewriter and
adding machine operators, correspondents, file clerks, etc.
The most modern office furnishings and equipment are used, which include Remington, Under¬
wood, Oliver and Corona Typewriters, Burroughs, Standard, Wales, and Sunstrand Adding Machines,
Globe-Register Billers, Underwood Fan-Fold Billing Machines, Reynolds Letter Sealers, Bricher
Electric Letter Openers, Multipost Stamp Machines, Remington-Wahl Register Machines, Toledo
Computing Mail Scales, Art Metal Filing Equipment, Edison Dictaphones, Edison-Dick Mimeo¬
graphs, Gammeter Multigraphs, and Lamson Pneumatic Carriers.
Departments comprising the General Office are: The Billing Department, where invoices are
prepared; the Complaint Department, where complaint mail is given attention, adjustments made,
and correspondence with the Post Office Department to effect deliveries and set¬
tlements for lost shipments attended; the General Correspondence Department, where
correspondence of a general character is given attention; Department 3, where
Diplomas are prepared and correspondence having to do with the establishment of
new agencies and the treatment of the Hair and Scalp attended; the Sales Analysis
Department, where the daily sales are classified and analyzed for the Accounting
Division; the Mailing Department, where first-class mail is stamped, sealed and
posted, and the Department of Miscellaneous Clerical Work.
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Most earnest effort is made by our clerks and correspondents to render PORO patrons
the most prompt, accurate and courteous service.
The lighting and ventilating system, the appointments, and the general equip
ment of our office are second to none.
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The General Office
No expense has been spared to provide the most superior and complete facilities
to serve PORO patrons most efficiently.
A VISIBLE Card System of Agents' Directory and Accounts accommodates the records of the
thousands of PORO Agents. Each agent has a card showing her official name, correct address,
and account. As addresses and names change these cards are corrected and shifted to their
proper positions in the record.
Agents must report promptly
changes of names and addresses;
otherwise identification is some¬
times difficult and delays result
which cause loss and inconven¬
ience to PORO patrons.
Partial view of Agents' Directory and Accounts
PORO Preparations are sup¬
plied in quantities to PORO
Agents ONLY;
hence all orders
and letters which come to PORO COLLEGE must first be referred to this Depart¬
ment to determine whether or not the correspondent is a qualified PORO Agent.
Care is taken that only PORO Agents enjoy those privileges to which PORO Agents
are entitled.
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The General Office
The Alphabetical and Geographical
Filing System is used. Two complete
files are maintained: one for orders and
invoices, and one for correspondence.
At a moment's notice the orders and
invoices, correspondence or account of
any PORO patron may be supplied by
our expert file clerks.
A Section of the Files
The Directory and Filing Systems represent investments of several thousand
dollars.
A corps of ten young ladies attend the Agents' Directory, Accounts, and Files.
We endeavor to develop the most efficient methods for the conduct of the business.
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It Pays to Patronize Her
The first essential to a healthy, abundant growth of the
hair is the proper care of the scalp. To promote a luxurious
growth of hair and to maintain its life and beauty, PORO
Hair Grower should be applied two or three times a week,
and the hair and scalp thoroughly cleansed at least once every
two weeks. For shampoo purposes the new PORO Skin and
Scalp Soap should be used to secure best results.
PORO Pressing Oil used in connec¬
tion with PORO Hair Grower softens
the strands and imparts a natural gloss
to the hair. It does not leave the hair
gummy. PORO Pressing Oil is supplied
PORO Agents for their exclusive use
in giving PORO Treatments. PORO
Agents do not sell Pressing Oil to the
public.
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Poro Hair and Toilet Preparations Are Sold
By Poro Agents Only
PORO Special Hair Grower
is a specific for the treatment
of irritated or diseased scalps
for which it is invaluable.
Only in cases of irritated or
diseased scalps should Special
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often being sufficient as a cor¬
rective. After the use of one
box of PORO Special Hair Grower, plain PORO Hair Grower
is usually recommended.
PORO Liquid Hair Grower is an excellent
tonic for hair of a texture which does not require
pressing. Applied two or three times a week it
promotes a luxuriant growth and maintains
and increases the beauty of the hair.
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PORO Tetter Relief is a splendid remedy for tetter, scalp irrita¬
tion, dandruff, and falling hair.
PORO Temple Grower and PORO Special Temple Grower are
most excellent for restoring the hair on the temples and remedying
other baldness. These two preparations are supplied PORO Agents
for their exclusive use in giving PORO Treatments and are not sold
to the public.
Because of the universal demand for PORO Hair Preparations
there have been attempts to impose on the public through the sub¬
stitution of poor imitations. In
order to protect PORO cus¬
tomers against such practices, cartons in which
PORO Hair Preparations are packed are now
sealed with the PORO Green Strip Seals which
completely encircle the cartons.
PORO Agents are instructed not to sell and
PORO customers are cautioned not to accept any
preparation represented as PORO if the seal has
been broken.
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Poro the Logical Choice
ONE of the most profitable professions open to Race women today is the
practice of the PORO SYSTEM OF SCIENTIFIC HAIR AND BEAUTY
CULTURE.
Twenty-three years of unparalleled success and the present unprecedented
demand for PORO Products indicate that PORO is amazingly efficient. PORO
makes a friend of every user.
PORO COLLEGE offers the Race woman a splendid opportunity to
obtain, with little interference with present duties and at small cost, a vocation
which is both dignified and profitable.
The woman entering the profession of Scientific Hair and Beauty
Culture quite naturally seeks that System which affords the greatest
advantages for her success.
The tremendous demand for PORO Products and Treatments, together
r with the very superior facilities of PORO COLLEGE to serve the interests
of PORO patrons, make the PORO SYSTEM the logical choice of the
enlightened woman, for PORO'S supremacy is an established fact.
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0R0 is the name by which the products of our laboratories have been
known since 1906. Each passing year deepens the significance of PORO
because we hold fast our covenant with PORO patrons.
Pursuant to the constant and ever increasing demand of thousands of
enthusiastic PORO patrons who have used PORO Hair Preparations with most
pleasing results, PORO Toilet Preparations are now manufactured and supplied
PORO Agents for re-sale to the public.
The new PORO Toilet Preparations are of that same high standard as has
always characterized PORO Hair Preparations.
Many PORO Agents are now materially increasing their PORO
business through the sale of these fine Toilet Goods. r-
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Harmony of Fragrance
Cleanliness is the basis of health, and the
right soap is first on our list of toilet accessories.
PORO SKIN AND SCALP SOAP contains only
the purest ingredients compounded through scien¬
tific formulae for especial use with other PORO
Products. Used for cleansing the skin, it helps to
keep the complexion clear and fresh. Mild in its
action, it is thoroughly cleansing. Used for sham¬
pooing, it softens and gives life to the hair. The
lather is amazingly abundant; it rinses out
quickly and thoroughly. Delightfully soothing in
its after effects, PORO SKIN AND SCALP
SOAP is equaly gratifying when used for skin and
shampoo.
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Our \Determination Is to Give the Greatest Value—to Render
the 'Biggest Service
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Poro Creams will not
cause growth
of hair.
PORO COLD CREAM cleanses, invigorates, nourishes, softens
and beautifies the skin. It builds up the tissue, and is unex¬
celled for massaging. PORO COLD CREAM
contains just the right amount of oil to
penetrate the pores and remove every trace
of dirt. Serves to help protect the delicate
texture of the skin against cold and wind.
PORO COLD CREAM is
highly recommended for wrink¬
les and extended pores and to
keep the skin from becoming
coarse and brittle.
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Standard for Twenty-Three Tears
The sJ^in requires two creams, one to cleanse, and a very
different one to protect and hold the powder.
A cool touch of PORO PEROXIDE VANISHING
CREAM gives smoothness to the skin and makes the powder
adhere longer, prevents roughness and coarseness of the skin,
and is an excellent remedy for sunburn,
chaps, eczema, pimples, and blackheads. The
pure medicinal hydrogen per¬
oxide entering into this cream
is an efficient bleaching agent
which will not harm the most
delicate skin. PORO PER-
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CREAM lightens the skin.
This is a Cream of
exceptionally fine
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Poro Products Meet the Alost Particular Toilet Needs
Poro Deodorant is carefully prepared from a special formula—
dependable and absolutely safe
PORO DEODORANT is a clean, antiseptic liquid.
Its mild, effective action checks profuse perspiration
and destroys objectionable body odor without affecting
the natural, healthy perspiration of the body. The
personal cleanliness which the bath imparts remains
when PORO DEODORANT is used. Applied as di¬
rected a body freshness, which cannot be had with soap
and water alone, is assured. An effective, economical,
and necessary toilet article.
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Poro Hair and Toilet Preparations are Superior Products
Poro Face Powder gives to the skin a subtle softness, a
delicate, creamy smoothness.
You will like it.
PORO FACE POWDER is a very
carefully prepared cosmetic combin¬
ing a fragrance, a fineness, and that
clinging quality so much desired in a
face powder. Supplied in three
shades, brunette, flesh, and white.
It spreads evenly a wonderfully
smooth, velvety film which blends
naturally with the skin. Beautifying,
comforting, refreshing.
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The mails are used exclusively for PORO shipments because quicker deliveries
are made through the medium of the mails, and thousands receive their shipments
promptly to whom deliveries cannot be effected conveniently by express. Great
care is exercised in filling orders promptly and packing goods carefully. Five hundred
to one thousand orders are shipped daily in two shipments by insured parcel post.
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Our trucks transport PORO to the Main Post Office.
Orders received in first morning mail are placed into the mails at 10:30 same
morning. Orders received in our office later in the day are placed into the mails at
4:30 same afternoon.
Orders for PORO are filled and shipped the same day received.
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Poro Preparations for Every Texture of Hair and Skin
Here PORO Preparations are placed
in containers. PORO Hair Preparations
are placed in cartons and sealed with the
Green PORO Seals, which completely
encircle the cartons. The Green Seal,
unbroken, serves to protect the PORO
customer against the substitution of imi¬
tations, which has sometimes been
attempted.
Sewing Department
A Partial View of the Filling Department
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The Management provides uniforms for
employes and students. These uniforms,
which are worn during business hours,
differ in color and design according to the
department in which the worker serves.
Uniforms and house-linens are made and
kept in repair by our Sewing Department.
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Some Helpful 'Reminders for Poro Agents
NEVER has the time been more favorable than the present for the PORO Hair and Beauty
Culturist. The demand for PORO Treatments and Preparations is now nation-wide. Success
awaits the wide-awake, industrious, capable PORO Agent who is ever mindful that her success depends
on the quality of her services to her patrons.
To serve PORO patrons with satisfaction, you must serve them well amid attractive surround¬
ings. Keep these surroundings scrupulously clean and make them beautiful. Your personal neatness
is no less essential. Under no circumstances sacrifice the quality of your PORO Treatments. Be
punctual in keeping your engagements. Never disappoint a patron. Treat your patrons with
courtesy and be considerate of their comfort. A pleased patron is your very best advertisement.
By your general bearing, command respect. Do not neglect your present opportunity.
In transacting business with the College, your careful observance of the following instructions
will very materially aid us in dispatching your business promptly and accurately:
Give pupil's name and address when requesting an Application Blank, for the Blank cannot
be sent until the pupil's name is supplied. Report promptly any change in your name or address,
giving both the old and the new, and be careful to write the new address plainly.
Make all remittances by post office or express money orders or cashiers' checks.
Please do not send personal checks. Write C. 0. D. on your orders when C. O. D.
shipments are desired; goods are not shipped C. 0. D. unless so ordered. Always
use Order Blanks when ordering goods, which fill very carefully to avoid error.
To serve you best, your kind co-operation is necessary.
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The Poj'o System
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HE Beauty Parlor and Instruction Department have been thoroughly and modernly equipped
for teaching the PORO SYSTEM of Scientific Hair and Beauty Culture and giving the PORO
Treatments to the public. The Instruction Rooms and Treatment Booths have every con¬
venience, and very earnest effort is exerted by our expert teachers and operators to insure each student
careful, thorough training, and to render the public the very best service.
» Scientific Hair and Scalp Culture, Facial Massaging, and Manicuring comprise the regular Course.
Fancy Hair Dressing, Manufacture of Hair, and Body Massaging are Special Courses.
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The PORO Agency offers an unusual opportunity for energetic, ambitious women to make
material and financial progress. A few weeks spent in learning the PORO SYSTEM have been
H~~t, JH to thousands of women the
f-\ IS^nK r gateway to prosperity through
the establishment of a perma¬
nent, profitable business. It
behooves every woman, who is
ambitious, who is not content
with her present financial and
economic status, to very care¬
fully consider the splendid
advantages the Poro Agency
affords.
A Class Room
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The Poro System
One of Our Twenty-four Instruction and Treatment Booths
PORO Agents teach the PORO SYSTEM, for which they receive liberal compensation. One
of the many attractive features of the PORO Agency is that only PORO Agents are supplied PORO
Preparations for resale to the public. Druggists and other non-agent dealers cannot profit through
the sale of PORO Products. Thus the PORO Agent is fully protected.
In order that PORO Agents may keep abreast of the forward trend of the World which is ever
devising something new and improving the old. a Ten-day Review Course is offered every one of the
thousands of PORO Agents. PORO Agents r | pj-—■——~ .|SS8SS&5
are privileged to spend ten days at the College,
once every twelve months, while taking the
Review Course without charges,
room and board included. This
Review Course may be taken
at any time to suit the con¬
venience of the Agent.
Could anything be fairer?
The Poro System
The facilities at PORO COLLEGE for teach¬
ing the PORO SYSTEM and the appointments
for the comfort of the student while receiving
intensive instructions are such that, during the
period of training, every moment is profitably
spent in an environment most cheerful and
wholesome. Students, agents, and others who
see the PORO Plant, the most complete of its
Chiropody Booth—Foot Treatment
Bath Dept. Body Massaging. Turkish and Vapor Baths.
kind in the World, readily perceive
that there are good sound reasons
for the supremacy of the PORO
Hair and Beauty Culturist.
One floor of an entire wing of
PORO COLLEGE Building is re¬
served for the accommodation of
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The Poro System
students and review-agents. These rooms
are cheerful, comfortable and scrupulously
clean. There is also provided in this wing
of the building a reception room, artistically
decorated and beautifully furnished, where
students and agents, during their stay at the
Students' and Agents' Reception Room
College, may receive and entertain
their friends. Our matron gives
most careful attention to the com¬
fort of our students and agents.
Members of the PORO Organiza¬
tion are cheerful, courteous, willing
and helpful.
A Dormitory Room
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Rooms are provided for the accommodation of
guests of the Institution; also transients are accom¬
modated. The rooms are cheerful, spotlessly clean,
artistically decorated, beautifully and comfortably
furnished. Our facilities assure the traveler most
excellent accommodations.
An Emergency Room
A Guest Room
Two emergency rooms,
fully equipped for first-aid
treatment, serve our em-
ployed-force and student-
body in case of accident or
sudden illness. A trained
nurse is stationed at the
College regularly.
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The Publicity Department
PORO advertising is here prepared. PORO
advertisements appear regularly in forty or
more publications throughout the country. Ad¬
vertising contracts and accounts with publishers
are handled in this office.
"THE PORO PURPOSE," our monthly
newspaper, in which is published the worth¬
while news, and which has a large circulation
among PORO Agents and friends, has its home
here. The subscription rate to "THE PORO
PURPOSE"
is only 50c per
year. Sample
copies will be
sent on re¬
quest.
An automatic house-telephone system con¬
nects all departments, and thirty-nine telephone
stations, together with enunciators in all rooms,
afford facilities throughout the Plant for outside
communication.
Through our powerful radio set, programs
rendered throughout the United States may
be enjoyed.
Telephone Switch Board
Page Thirty-seven
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Exquisite
Cuisine.
Excellent
Service.
Immaculate.
Beautiful.
A Partial View of Dining Room.
Located on the third floor of PORO COLLEGE Building is our beautiful, sanitary
Dining Room, one of the most complete and up-to-date in the city, in which two hundred
may be comfortably accommodated. Here the employes are served meals below cost.
The PORO Dining Room enjoys the large patronage of the public to whom the doors
are open 7:30 A. M. to 8:00 P. M. Our prices are moderate. A specialty is made
of serving dinner parties, banquets, etc.
Page Thirty-eight
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Partial View of Cafeteria
Our modern, airy, sanitary bakery daily sup¬
plies the bread and pastries for our Dining
Department and Cafeteria.
These products are sold to the
public through our Cafeteria.
Candy is also manufactured.
The products of our shop are
unsurpassed in quality and ex¬
cellence.
In the PORO Cafeteria on the first floor
there is installed a most beautiful, modern, mar¬
ble fountain and an up-to-date sanitary steam
table. From our fountain a full line of fountain
products of the highest quality is dispensed. From
our steam table appetizing lunches and hot
liquids are served. These delicacies are served
in generous portions at prices most moderate.
Our Cafeteria prides itself for the high quality
of its products and the excellence of its service.
Pariial View of Bakery
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Press Committee Room
Mr. and Mrs. Malone are intensely interested in religious progress and in those
institutions and movements which, sanely directed, have for their purpose human
uplift and community betterment. To work of this character much of their time
and energy are given.
Two Conference rooms serve com¬
mittees of the PORO Organization as
well as boards and committees of a
number of religious, fraternal, civic
and social organizations of St. Louis.
With these organizations, PORO
COLLEGE is happy to enjoy rela¬
tions of reciprocal co-operation and
support.
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The 'Poro "Plant Equipment
It has been found ad¬
vantageous to operate
our own laundry. Here
the house-linens and em¬
ployes' uniforms are
laundered. The laundry
equipment, which is of
the most modern type,
is electrically driven,
and includes a washer,
an extractor, mangle,
steam presser, station¬
ary tubs, and individual
gas irons.
Two Kewanee low- A
pressure boilers, of the The Laundry
water and fire-tube type,
afford steam heat, and a Brecht Hot Water Heater provides hot water for both buildings.
Refrigerating Equipment in the basement of PORO COLLEGE Building chills
the several vaults in both buildings and cools the drinking water which is distributed
through fountains throughout the Plant. About 800 pounds of ice may be manu¬
factured daily.
The Lamson Pneumatic Carrier Equipment is employed for transmitting mail
between departments and buildings. Electrically driven fans supply the air pressure
for this service.
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Attention, Ambitious Women!
Do You Want to Enter a Profitable Profession?
Do You Want to Better Your Condition?
Do You Want to Increase Your Earnings?
Do You Want to Serve?
IF SO, WRITE TO-DAY
More Agents are needed to supply the tremendous demand for PORO Products
IT WILL PAY YOU TO INVESTIGATE
For Further Information Address
PORO COLLEGE
Dept. G. C.
PORO CORNER : : ST. LOUIS, MO., U. S. A
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PORO Agencies are now conducted by enthusiastic Agents in every state in the
United States, and in Africa, Cuba, the Bahamas, Central America, Nova Scotia, and
Canada. The opportunity of the PORO Agent to render genuine service is boundless.
PORO profits bring economic independence.
Page Forty-three
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Graduating
Class
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Poro College
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Pkone Ja. 9174
250 Auburn, Ace., N.E.
TORO of Atlanta
BEAUTY SHOP
A skop of rare ckarm
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to Women of discriminating
Ella Ramsey, Manager taste and refined judgment