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'A million germs woke up one day tdeiiit on journeying miles away; < nigh, cold, and fever, asthma, too. These germs were named by those who knew; And people grew so much alarmed 'I bey realised they might ’be harmed; imt all at once the germs fell dead, ’J'Uey’d mot Woods’ Poppe-mint Cure *tis said. There is n monument in Hempstead, l ong Island, erected to the members of a shijiwrecked crew, who were drowned off iar Rockaway one stormy night. On three sides of the monument are ordinary inscriptions, On the fourth appears the best bit of humour ever found on n gravestone. It reads ns follows: “This monument was erected by the humane people of Queens County to the memory of the shipwrecked crew—Out of the money found on the bodies of the deceased.’*

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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVLI, Issue 10, 6 September 1911, Page 61

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Page 61 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVLI, Issue 10, 6 September 1911, Page 61

Page 61 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVLI, Issue 10, 6 September 1911, Page 61