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A MIDNIGHT "BARK."

One night recently, just as the members of a South Island chemist's household had retired, someone —a visitor— was suddenly seized with a violent fit of coughing. It was a dry "nagging" cough at first, that tickled the throat' and irritated the chest, but it gradually grew worse, and by midnight had developed into a veritable "bark." The coughing was incessant, everyone was kept awake, and at length the chemist in dismay went downstairs to his shop and got a bottle of cough cure which he took up to the coughing visitor. The visitor took one dose. The coughing ceased immediately. In the morning the visitor asked the chemist: "What was that remarkable stuff you gave me for", my cough Jast night? It stopped my cough; like magic!" "That was Baxter's Lung Preserver, the best Cough Cure I have in the shop,' 5 replied the chemist. "It's a sure cure for all throat and lung affections, and is famous because it cures quickly. I have always. used it myself and have never known it to fail." "Is lOd the large-sized bottle at thenusts and stores/ smiled the visitor, "I've read a lot about Baxter's— and now I know.?'—Advt. i

S^!l^ 3 asking Cough ai mght, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure Is 6d, 2s 6d.—Advt.

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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 15 May 1912, Page 2

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A MIDNIGHT "BARK." Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 15 May 1912, Page 2

A MIDNIGHT "BARK." Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 15 May 1912, Page 2