FIGURE IT OUT. THE COST OF COUGH MIXTURES.
How long does an eighteenpenny bottle of cough mixture last? A few doses, and bottle is empty. Then another, and still another, to be bought. Runs j into money, doesn't it? Especially ; where a family is concerned. J Now, try this recipe for making good cough mixture at home. It gives from ten to twelve shillings' worth for two shillings. It makes a pint — about eight eighteenpenny bottles — of warming, soothing, stimulating cough * and cold remedy that h good for all members of the family. It does not contain any poison or harmful drug of any kind. In a jux mix some sugar, treacle, a large \ breakfast cupful of warm water and a bottle of Hean's Essence label. Place in big bottle and keep ready for taking whenever required. There is no trouble or bother of any kind. Hean's Essence makes a pint of cough mixture better than you can buy ready prepared, and saves a lot of money. A few drops to a child or a spoonful to an adult give instant relief. As a remedy for croup, whooping coughs, and other stubborn, obstinate coughs, it stands a real champion. This plan "of making good cough mix-ture-at home is now quite popular. The receipt is so good, and the money-saving so big, that Hean's Essence is being used all over New Zealand. The mixture lasts a long time and never spoils. Hean's Essence may now be obtained from most medicine dealers, 2s a bottle. If yours does not yet stock it, "he can easily obtain it from liis wholesaler for you ; or post free on receipt of price from Hean, Chemist, Wanganui. Wherever you buy, bo sure you get Hean's Essence; no other will do.— Advt.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1914, Page 2
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