Photo by Ed Shannon

What may the world’s shortest song has these words, “Shave and a haircut two bits.” However, this wooden post outside the barber shop at the Freeborn County Museum & Historical Village indicate the true price is 40 cents instead of just two bits (25 cents). On the lower portion of the post on three sides the prices at the barber shop a century ago from the left were: shave, 15 cents; hot bath, 25 cents; and haircut, 25 cents.