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Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3554, 6 December 1934, Page 2

ODD ADVERTISEMENTS If a collection which has come into onr hands is any criterion, the ad. columns of old-time newspapers could occasionally be just as mirthful as those of to-day. Here are examples: From a riverside time-table: Hotel. Under entirely new management: Lunch a la carte, 2s. Dinner (table d’hote), f,s. Dark room for developments. Required, capable young man to undertake the sale of a new cough mixture that will prove highly lucrative to the undertaker. Notice in a cook shop window near the docks: Sailor’s vitals cooked here. Wanted, the girl who helped a lady with a leg down a coal hole on Sunday afternoon between three and four o’clock. , . For sale, goodwill, etc., established boarding-house, in good position and in full swing. Splendid opportunity for widow, 20 beds full of gentlemen. Lady wishes to dispose of her perambulator her own child growing out of it. Wanted, two strong clean youths for sausages.

TO FIT YOUR POCKET! You can easily cai’ry a tin of Midget Pulmonas in your dress suit pocket . . . the tin is flat, the Pulmonas are made in special small size to slip into your mouth between a lecture . . . a. song ... a speech. There’s nothing so good to keep coughs away and the throat clear at the first sneeze or throat irritation suck Pulmonas. Midget Pulmonas 1/- a tin.

Mrs. Newly-Rich: What a horrid boardinghouse! It seems just like a prison. Amiable Landlady: Well, mum, it’s all a matter of what one is used to, isn’t it?

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