A MIDNIGHT “BARK.”
One night recently, just as tho racm- ; hers of a South Island chemist’s household had retired, someone—a visitor—was suddenly seized with a violent lit of coughing. It was a dry, “nagging” cough at first, that tickled the throat and irritated the chest, hut it gradually grow worse, and by midnight had developed into a veritable “bark.” The coughing was incessant, everyone was kept awake, and at length tho chemist in dismay wont downstairs to Ids shop and got a bottle of cough cure which ho took up to tho coughing visitor. Tho visitor took one dose. The coughing ceased immediately. In the morning the visitor asked the chemist “What was that remarkable stuff' yon gave me for my cough last night P It stopped my cough like magic I ” “That was Baxter’s Lung Preserver llio best Cough Cure I have in the shop,” replied the chemist. “It’s a sure cure for all tin oat and lung affections and is famous because it cures quickly. I always use it myself,, and have never known it to fail.” “Is lOd the large-sized bottle at chemists,” smiled tho visitor, “ I’vo read a lot about Baxter’s— and now I know.”
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West Coast Times, 21 June 1912, Page 1
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199A MIDNIGHT “BARK.” West Coast Times, 21 June 1912, Page 1
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