Mr. Herbert Siimucl, tlie PostmnsterGenoral, made a joke in opening a new central post office at Margate. Ho announced that, as that was a special occasion, tlie stamps would be 13s. With an eye to business, an enterprising lady demanded a shilling's worth, and ' Mr. Samuel handed her eleven penny stamps and two half-penny ones. For Influi.izt tako Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails, la. Oil., as. Cd -Advt. Mountebank was the term applied oi old to the patent modlclno vendors whu mounted a bench to proclaim hie wares.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 914, 6 September 1910, Page 9
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89Page 9 Advertisements Column 4 Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 914, 6 September 1910, Page 9
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