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Evening Star, Issue 14964, 26 August 1912, Page 1

The wet weather in England last week recalls memories of the 1903 season, when ■ the Kennington Oval was a quagmire and j Lord's a pool. That year gave birth to ] the story of the umpire who went out to inspect a pitch, and fell in. But he was a conscientious man, and 36 he rose to the surface for the third time before sinkirtg ! to a watery grave, he did his duty by announcing, in a feeble voice : No play before lunch!" HAD A WEAK CHEST. " My son Frank would not be alive to-day had it not been for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy," writes Mrs A. M. Buckley, River street, Bulimba, Brisbane, Q. "Ho had a. weak chest, and was subject to attacks of croup, but Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has brought him safely through, and now he is strong and healthy."'— {Advt]