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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21290, 9 October 1934, Page 9

Britain's queerest salesman is Mr George Aloysius Storey, of Durham. He peddles pain. All spring and summer he wanders through small villages and hamlets, carrying on his back a large black box, which emits a loud buzzing. The box contains bees, whose main duty is to sting his vheumatic clients. Sixpence a sting is the price charged, and he finds plenty of people willing to offer an arm or leg to a bad-tempered bee. "I have only to arrive in the smallest hamlet to find plenty of customers," Mr Storey said. "I prepare a small place on the victim's arm or leg with antiseptic, and place the bee in a tiny wire cage on the spot. Then I tickle the bee with a straw till it becomes really angry, and stings in self-defence. Naturally, I have to keep renewing my stock of bees." People are all becoming taller. Europeans are, on an average, two inches taller than were their grandfathers of 70 years ago. A shilling advertisement in the classified section of "The Press" will scli your goods. Try it. 12 words is, three insertion.'; 2s b'd. —6