Former lias been known to carry v. Burley drill weighing 600 pound* over a mountain pass, while three of the Turkish porters have carried a grand piano in its case for a distance of three miles on end. It is admitted that a professions)! cyclist in a 24-hours' race has. broken the record for the amount of work done by a human being within that time. Such a- man does twenty million, foot-pounds of work in the 24 hours, or in other words, lifts n weight of two tons to the height ot one mile!
In these days it is not necessary to tell people coughs and colds are _ dangerous—they know. Neither m* it necessary to tell %hera that the best cough remedy is Totty's R*d Spruce Compound—they know that too. lne children like it, and it is put up in larger bottles . than formerly, Is fad and 2s 6d sitses.— R. Tottj. 7
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9657, 14 July 1919, Page 5
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