A Valuable Specific.
"I know a man," s-aid tho fat youth. ••mlio-sc life wus sa\ed by a patent medicine."' '•Excuse mo," said the auditor wearily, 'but it's bad enough to ha\e to read those things without listening to them." •"But." remonstrated (he first speaker, '•tin, l-n't any di-play-typ?. next-to-readmg-matter itory. It's a genuine fact. Ho couldn't eat anything." "Ye.-," interrupted rhe other: "and ti.en he took Dr So-auc'.- c o's Somctliing-or-other, and it cuicd him so that he could digest carpet-tacks." '■.Vo, my fiiend," continued the first man. "He couldn't eat because he didn't Lave the prico of a meal ; but he invented a patent medicine and got a capitalist to help him to put it oa- the market, and vow he caa eat whenever he feels like it."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2505, 26 March 1902, Page 73
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129A Valuable Specific. Otago Witness, Issue 2505, 26 March 1902, Page 73
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