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Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3102, 26 September 1899, Page 3

An XIX Century Snare .» To the newspaper reader there is no more intolerable nuisance than " the ways that are dark " of the persistent advertiser of the present day. One commences an interesting article on, say, 'Dredging' or the 'Transvaal,' or some other subject of vital interest, only to find out to their intense disgust that it is nothing more than an advertising puff of Higgin's soap or Ballyboy'B pills. Such occasions present rare opportunities for the exercise of patience and self-control. The writer sympathises with the feeling, He has been taken in often himself. Now, one doeß not mind being fooled into reading such an advertisement of an article like the far-famed Hondai Lanka Teas, for it is within the scope of everyone's daily experience that the article in question is of the very best quality, and it can be easily understood that the publication of this fact $s of vit«il importance to the distriot. The destinies of a nation depend much upon its meat and driok, and all true citizens recognise the value of an unadulterated, high-class, rich flavored, and moderatelyrpriced Tea, such as the Hondai Lanka is, fco the public. But really, as far as pills and quack medicines, " Blended Teas," et hoc genus omne, are concerned, many think the newspaper people should refuse such advertisements, only allowing those of proved articles of the utmost » utility and value, such, for instance, as 6 the superlative tea known as V f( M'Kenzie's " Unblended Ceylon- ] grown Hondai-Lanka, above referred » 1 tor— [Advt]