Tlie long drought m England, now happily broken, furnished Englishmen something like a prairie fire, Tlie herbage had grown almost as dry as tinder, and when a fire started on the moors of North Yorkshire jt overspread; more than ten square miles, suffocating and roasting sheep and killing thousands of birds. Defer no Time— Delays are Dangerous." Shakespeare. At the first sign of cough or cold nake "NO\^" your watchword— for if /ou once let a winter cough or cold get lold of you, it takes a lot of shaking >ff. You can usually "feel" the cold oming— then at once take Baxter's Lung Preserver. it will drive away my cough, cold, sore throat or chest rouble m "record quick time." It is full of healthful, healing, curailve .properties. Most pleasant to the 'aste, prompt ln its effectiveness, "Baxer"s" is a friend indeed. Order a large Is 6d bottle from your Chemist or Store 10-day. A Masterton blacksmith who had a ! quantity of horse-shoeing iron' on order) from Wellington, was informed on Saturday that the Railway Department would only carry the iron through the parcels office, bringing four bars at a time (says a Wairarapa paper). The freight through^ the parcels would be ! 3s for each four bars, instead of the j usual Is 6d. There was no question about the railways' being able to carry the iron — it was purely a matter of paying double freight. On Monday the blacksmith was notified by telephone from Wellington that a parcel of four bars of iron had been dispatched, and the i freight > would .be 7s. The black- • smith is now wondering if horse-shoe-ing is an essential industry. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, For Couaha and Colda, never faila.— t At the recent convention of the editors of California papers, a delegate told about the first editor he worked under. "Right or wrong, he was always right. I recall on one occasion when the paper announced the death of; William R. Jones, who, it turned out, was not dead. According the next day the paper printed the following note : 'Yesterday we were the first paper to pubish the death of William R. Jones, j To-day we are the first to deny the re- I port. The Morning Star is aways m,! the lead." A sudden chill may give you colc^-in, the Head, inflamed Throat, or Bronfcmtis. Remember, if you should taksijo ohill, don't wait until you are laid jjip/ bub use "Nazol" freely right awi&£ Thousands know its value. —4. |^'' Four great mountain roads are to'^he. relaid and rebuilt m the Upper Vosges, leading from Franco into Alsace. The Commission des Routes of the district of the Vosges is looking to the 4'eat future when tourists will pass that way. Largely the roads existed as strategic -j military mountary roadsj and the pre- r sent effort is m line with making tlenij available fpr pleasure automobj|es. jj Taken together, they will form a i| 6 *i approachable circuit and entrance i|kt*> J Upper Alsace. ' ;V \ Most' edible articles remain at high I prices— not so O.M.C. Sheep Tongjfies. j The price haa been considerably reduced. To-day 'tis cheaper to purchase a tift'of 1 delicious tongues than to buy fresh nitatJ They save the cost of firing, areynol trouble to prepare, and are appredittetM by everybody. Ask your grocer fforf C.M.O. Tongues. H ft
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14983, 9 August 1919, Page 9
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