The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, March 11, 1919, Page FIVE, Image 5
'fled in disguise
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Noted Men Who Escaped Captivi-:
ty by Subterfuge.
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In Hour* of Grave Danger Soldiers of
Proved Bravery Have Not Hesi
tated to Save Lives by I a- j
nominious Flight.
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Gen. Hans von Beseler of the Ger-}
man army is said to have escaped out
of Poland in disguise as a stowaway |
on board a Vistula river steamboat. J
In the fall of 1914 Von Beseler was j
glorified as the conquerer of the city ,
L of Antwerp, the chief stronghold of '
B Belgium and the chief port of conti- j
Bt nental Europe. Germany's conquer-1
f - Ing heroes of 1914 have been van- j
quished and Von Beseler is but one |
of a great comnanv of notable furji- !
^ O- - - ,
V., tives who have saved their lives by i
"fleeing in disguise. Judge Jeffries of j
b ^English history, whose name is asso- i
f ciated with the "bloody assizes," tried
to hide himself and escape the vengeance
his savage cruelty merited by
donning the garb of a coal miner j
and hiding in a tavern at Woking, but j
he was recognized, captured, imprisoned
in the Tower of London, where j
he soon died. Prince Charles Edward j
Stuart, pretender to the throne of
Great Britain, escaped from Scotland j
in petticoats, disguised as Betty
A Burke, maid to Flora MacDonald.
W Louis Phillippe, the "citizen king" of
w France, fled to the coast of Normandy
where he posed as "Mr. Smith," a British
subject, in order to secure passage
to England on a steamboat Napoleon
III, while a pretender to the throne
of France, was imprisoned In the
fortress of Ham. After several i
_ months of confinement repairs were j
begun on the fortress. Napoleon I
bribed one of the carpenters to smug- j
? gle in a workman's garb for his dis- i
guise. He dressed himself in the j
. vonrse overalls and blouse, shouldered
a short plank, which fee carried on j
edge so as to conceal bis face, and j
walking past his guard he escaped to |
Belgium and thence to England, j
Porfirio Diaz was twice compelled to j
* flee from Mexico and seek safety in j
tie United States. He made one trip
from New Orleans to Vera Cruz disguised
as a stoker on board a steamship
and was soon leading a new band
of revolutionists. Empress Eugenie,
disguised as a servant woman, was
taken out of Paris by Doctor Evans,
an American dentist, in whose house
she had been hidden. Thus she escaped
ti?e blind fury of the French
mob and gained safe asylum in England.
- Jefferson Davis, fallen president
of the Southern; Confederacy, js
said by his enemies to have tried to
escape out of <he country and evade
his tramtefs ~ Avoman's
gar^' tout he^was ^aptufe<! aud im-1
prisoned until the passions of some ;
of til* northern tire-eaters had cooled, j
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The General'? Drop.
I have been told this story of a
"flying" general, who has had experience
as a parachutist, says a writer
in the London Evenitig .News. A few
days ago he was a passenger in an
^airplane going north. After a while
he picked up a village where he Intended
to stop for a day or two, and
Informed the pilot, who at once sig*
nified his intention of making a landing.
"Oh! don't stop!" shouted the
^general. and he proceeded to attach
himself to a parachute and his suitcase
to another. He dropped the case
overboard and then stepped off him
self. Uenerai and suitcase noateu
down gently and safely to earth,
while the airplane continued its flight.
Comfortable Beds.
Mattress and pillow used fn the
berths of sailors and firemen aboard
government-operated merchant vessels
are of the most approved type for sea
use, for besides making good bedding,
? they are the best sort of life preservers.
Their filling is a soft, resilient
tropical fiber known as kapoc, ^vhich
can sustain 25 times Its own weight
In salt-water for 48 hours.
Ob each of the new merchant ships
bullt under the direction of the United
8tates shipping board, shower baths
are provided for the crew, there being
one for the firemen and another for
the deck force.?Merchant Marine.
Kaiser's Thankless Dentist
"Now tjiat Doctor Davis has finished
| his revelations," says Nate Saulsbury,
.as reported by the Chicago Evening
Post, "the kaiser may realize how
sharper than an ulcerated tooth it is
^ to have a thankless dentist. We should
like to have held the doctor's job and,
when it appeared necessary to draw
- the kaiserlische raoiar, warbled as we
closed down on the forceps. The
- yanks are coming, the yanks are coming!"?From
Outlook.
An Awful Waste.
"When a senator dies at least eight
thousand volumes of eulogy are priut<3ictr>ihut-art
hv lh<? irovprnment".**
Cll HUli UIOH IMUtV v? Vv- - - - ^
said Professor Pate. "This is an ap- \
palling waste, and?"
"It is indeed," replied J. Fuller
Gloom. "In most instances three cheers
would he more impropriate.?Kansas
^^Cltv Star.
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The Right Sort.
Two Aucklanders were talking about
a mutual friend. Said one: "So Jim
has gone Into the navy and is now on a
destroyer. I thought he was a pacifist.''
"He is; a naval pacifist."
"And what is naval pacifist?"
who plant9 depth bombs for
the purpose of spreading oil on the
f troubled waters." J
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I'LAUNEO KINGDOM IN DESERT
Adventurous Youths Had Great
Scheme to Make Fertile Region of
the Waste of ? ahara.
Governmental authority. c<?-ojifrating
with parental ' authority, has
thwarted a romance of youthfui adventure
nt Denver which reads fike :?
Stevenson or a Poe. Two hoys, six
teen tind fifteen years old. had planned
tin* establishment ??f the kingdom <>;
Sahara. They had studied maps ;md
devised engineering plans, delved into
finance and perused the .military a>-t.
until the fund of their information
astonishing to those whose duty coinpolled
them to step across ihe adven ,
turers' path.
The Denver youths vrer<' planning
Soon to invade the Sahara am! so! up :
their kingdom, over which tiu-y r<
to rule sis joint kings. The natives
were to he organized inn* a powerful
army of 7.(MKM>00 men. This army was '
to dig great artesian wells, water fr? in
which was to form two lakes wills an ,
area of 2.~0.000 square miles. Tin- i
Senegal and Nile were to he Hoodrd j
shutting the new kingdom safely in j
against hostile incursion. Portugal |
was to !>e coerced into ceding Portu- j
guese East Africa to the new kingdom: I
in return for which Portugal was to bo
helped to take British and French
Guiana and the former fiertnau possessions
in Africa. Each of the joint
kings had figured out an income of j
S14.500.000 for'himself.
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A dream, born of a Uisorcerea lanc.v r 1
Sure, but? i
No more of a dream than that of j
the German military party which start- !
ed out four years ago to drive the Brit- j
ish lion to his den, to clip the wings j
of Liberty and tie America to their I
chariot wheels. Building a powerful 1
kingdom in a desert would be no greater
task than that assumed by the
Germans of laying civilization by the
heels. ]
Henceforth, if anyone proposes to
fly to the moon or to build a spiral
stairway to the earth's center, he may i
cite the example of tjie ruler of a ^nee
great people who assumed a task similar
in its elements of romantic adventure
and similarly . impossible of
achievement. A new standard for foolish
effort has been set for all time.? j
Cleveland Plain Dealer. j
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Work for Shell Shock Men,
The kind of employment the shell ,
shock man undertakes, whether he re- ]
turns to his old work or takes up some- i
thing oew that suits him better, Is one !
of the deciding factors in his recovery. |
The work must be congenial and it |
must be something he can do without .
strain or worrjv And the hours, more- j
.over, must out .be. too long. A paOejat
whom I have known for five years does
a highly skilled kind of technical work,
which he thoroughly enjoys, and for j
which he Is highly appreciated by his |
firm..- In his zeal for bis work, he feonf ;
time to time has a sp?HI of worltfng j
over hours, with the result that he be- !
comes fatigued and then takes alcohol j
and for a while is wholly irresponsible, j
These attacks could be avoided if his .
wife were skillful enough to prevent
his overworking. For the man with
shell shock the nature and hours of i
work should be given the most care- j
ful consideration?Mary C. Jarrett in ;
Touchstone (New York.)
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More Particulars Coming. j
They had been married in Novem- |
ber?
"Did you see anything that particularly
struck your fan<*y when you
were looking round the shops today, j
sweetheart?" he asked, on his wife's j
return from a round of Christmas j
chnnrun^. j
"Well." she replied, "I saw some- j
thing extremely pretty in lookingglasses."
"I have no doubt you did." he observed,
"if you looked into them." J
They were married in November
A further and more exciting install- J
miiDt of this young couple's adven- I
tures will appear In our Christmas i
number for 1919.
To Keep Your Shoes Dry.
Here is an item which the doctor .
tells us to add to our long list of i
things to do to keep the "flu" away:
By standteg just outside your door!
~ '?" nlono #/>! o mnmont hofnpp 1
IU a ut j ?v? u u<vu.v. ~
wading out in the snow In severe
weather you will find that the snow
does not cling to the shoes and they
will remain perfectly dry. The reason
for this is that the soles of your j
shoes are cooled so that they do not j
melt the snow through which you ;
walk. If you rush out of a warm i
house in warm shoes they melt the j
SDOW WHICH MICAS IV uicju, nnu LUC
water soon soaks through to file feet.
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Mail by Airplane. j
All mails between Europe and the
United States eventually will be carried
by airplane, according to Lord
Morris, who has championed a movement
before a parliamentry committee
for the establishment of a port
of call for Atlantic liners on the west
coast of Ireland. |
Already, he says, a regular daily j
mail service by airplane is maintained .
Kofu'oon i?nd France without
MViM Wi.
interruption by the weather.
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Always Dictates It.
Booth Tarkington tells of an old ne-;
gro who appeared as a witness before :
one of our committees. In the course ]
of his examination these questions1
ware put to the man:
" *? - - _ _ mi
"wnat is your numex
"Calhoun Clay, sah."
"Can you sign your name?'
"Sah?"
"I nr>: if you can write your name."
"Well, no sah. Ah nebber writei ina
Mme. Ah dictates it, suh."
TRIBUTE TO DR. McISTOSH |
BY HIS NURSE!
{
Kditor The Herald and News:
I feel it my duty to say something!
concerning L'r. .Mcintosh's last illness!
and his death. What I want to say j
is this: 1 nursed him six months j
and in all those months I never did j
see nun angry, ne was aiways pi?ao-;
rd w?*h ev^rvth'ng I did for him and j
it satisfied him. I am glad I can say)
Dr. Aiclniosh lived a Christian life. |
1 lie would have his Bible read to him j
day and night. Mrs. Mcintosh would;
; lead every day and niglit to him: i
also Mrs. Simmons and I would read)
for him. Last Saturday night In!
asked me to pray for him, which j
I did, and when I prayed then he said.)
! "I w?"li pray the short prayer 'Now j
.1 lay me down to slee^, I pray the i
l^ord my soul to keep, if I should die I
before i waKe i pray me l.ut? my >
soul to take. Amen..' Thrm he went
to sleeji. "Plessed are the dead who!
die in the Lord that they may rest;
from their labors and their works do:
follow them." Ivong days and nights j
he bore in pain.
Josephine Pettis, j
Newberry. S. C.. j
February 26, 1919.
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FIFTH ARMY FOUGHT WELL j
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British Trco:?s, Battling Agair st Des
perate Oc.ds, Allowed Enerry to
Gait; Only by Inches.
j Then I was with the British Fifth
army, mid I'll tell vou why they didn't
hold against the Boche?they simply .
! couldn't. They wt?re outranged and 1
outnumbered cruelly. Never: in my
i life did I see such heroism itad gal- .
lantry displays! against frightful odd?*
| as by those men, and if they didn't
ficrht then there never was any fight
ing anywhere upon the face of the
earth, Maj. Cushman A. Rice, D. S. A.,
writes in Leslie's Magazine. Attacked
, by a tremendously superior German
! force, they lost almost all of their artillery
of any weight the first day. but
stuck at rhe Somme line until almost
annihilated. For every inch of ground
they gained the Huns paid the highest
price in men. and T could tell ">00 instances
in which the British battlers
proved to be magnificent heroes. I
saw a captain who was in charge of ,
n battery of six-inch howitzers have
a hand shot away. He stopped fie;ht' j
Ing only long enough to have temporary
dressing applied and then return- i
ed to his post and assisted his men 1
in - wwin* thp trims. Fie was killed
* O * o
fl day. I was with a machine :
ui w ipany until all but three of the
. * l been killed or incapacitated.
i"l iv them that I was going to fall j
back and urged them to do likewise. '
The leader, a little Lancashire sergeant."
answered:: "No; the Boches
have chased us far enough. Here we
|- stick." , And they stuck and were.
. killed ,to the last man.. !
And these Canadian units. Man, I
siropiv-ran't tell yo? how -they fought
against* odds {or five days and six ,
nights, going back onl^inch by inch.
One division or iu.iw men. seiu m w
replenish the line, fought continuously
for three days and nights. A roll call
showed 916 left. Still there' are those ;
who ask if the British ran away. No,
a thousand times no. With eompara- 1
tively few reserves they hung on. They
were sacrificed, but it was their duty
to stay, and they did. Too much can- ,
not be sahl in praise of the Fifth
army, for it saved the day and prevented
the Huns from breaking through
to Abbeville until the French came up.
Was Taking No Chances.
One of Lucy's friends was giving a
little birthday party for the little
* -1
boys ana gins or rue uejguuuruvuu.
and of course the children were much
excited about it, particularly as it was
customary for each little boy to ask
to take the little girl he was most j
proud of. Several days passed and !
no one asked Lucy. And then one
afternoon she came home from school
| in great glee.
i "Mother," she said, "I have asked
Bobby to go to the party with me."
Mother was shocked. "You asked
Bobby to go with you! Why, Lucy,
that wasn't a very nice thing for you '
f to do. Bobby might prefer to take ;
some other little girl."
"Well, you know, mother," Lucy re-?
- 1 "iV.il. 4 i. ?T ?fraM
I piieu, -1112119 JUSl WU?l * TTCWJ auBiu
j Of."
| v The Airplane Runabout.
j At last there Is being produced In
England a small airplane, with wings j
[ extending only 15 feet, or actually ;
I less than the wing extension of a real \
bird, the albatross. This, to be sure, 1
would be a large albatross, but cases 1
have been known of these birds measuring
17 and 18 feet from tip to tip. (
There is evident advance toward the
I day when anybody who can afford the
price will be able to own an airplane,
without the need of a special landing ;
p'ace for it. The one referred to can, {
; it is claimed, come down in the street j
without blocking traffic any more than ,
would a hay wagon on its way to market
Famous Generals.
Admiral Keyes of the Dover patrol,
who landed jit Ostend not long ago,
was present at the siege of Peking in
1000. He was then a lieutenant and j
naval A. D. C. to ( Jon. Sir Alfred Gase- j
* - - 1 i. 4-U ^ T>?i4.ir.k
lee, couiiiiuuuuui ui mtr x>iiu?>ii j.uh;c, i
and in that capacity took part in the
famous march to the relief of the legations.
The British were the first to
! effect an entrance to the Chinese capi|
tal, which they did by the water gate
under the city wall. Besides Admiral
j Keyes there were present two naval
officers whose names have become
famous during the war just ended?
Admirals .Tellicoe and Beatty.
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NMMMMMMMBMMMMHWBMHMMH i I
St'ENE FROM "STCK-A-BED"
OfKTii House, Thursday, March 13
v PERSONAL.
I. H. H.inf. Esq., has been appointor'
o mp^hpr c,f the committee on
jurisdiction and law* and Dr. George
E. Cromer chairman of committee on
\
judicial administration and remedial
law. for the joint meeting of Georgia
and South Carolina attorneys at Tybee
island this sr;miner.
Mr. S. H. McLean, the popular
Southern railway official, was in
Newberry Saturday from Columbia.
Mr. and Mrs.' Ben A. Dominick left
Sunday for Orlando, Fla., to make
their home in that land of orange
groves and other pleasant conditions.
Many people here will regret
the departure of* Mr. and Mrs Dominick
from Newberry, but hope than
life for the happy couple in the
country among the flowers will ever
.vibrate in harmonious accord with the
tvneful and poetical nature of that
favored section^ Mr. Dominick will
bo engaged in the orange industry,
in which bimrpes he is interested
?foiv,OT. fim nwnine- and
tWllll 1J1? iuu^.1 aii %..v ~ w
cultivating of groves of this delicious
frnit.
Mr. Henry Holley of Aiken was on
a pleasant visit in .Newberry Sunday.
.Mr. and Mr3. Richard C. Floyd have
taken up light housekeeping at the
home of Mrs. W. E. Pelham, Jr.
Mr. Clarence Lominick, who recently
arrived from overseas, came
"home Saturday night from ^C&mp
Jackson, having been given his honorable
discharge from the service.
. Mr. Tho& N. Parks, Jr, has gone
to Poughtfeepsie, N. Y., to take a business
course. . . 'Mr.
William Ewart has arrived
home from Camp Gordon, where he
was honorably mustered out of the
service.
Mr. and .Mrs1. Jno. C. Baker and
children and Mir. H. F. Counts of the
* ------ * ?
county, JV11S3 juouise \,ouuis i/t wlumbia
and Misses Estelle Rikard and
Leona Counts of the county ^were
spending Saturday evening with Mr.
and Mrs. W H Eddy, expecting to go
home, but were prevented by rain.
However, they had a joLIy time. Mrs.
Eddy had to provide sleeping places
for upwards of 20 persons. :Sihe re
sorted to pallets for those over bed
numbers. The crowd enjoyed it.
traveling man says
"thought my time had come"
"Had Given I?p Hope of Every Being
Well Again.?It is Awful to Feel
That You Have No Chance, But
Dreco Changed it AIL"
"I cannot fully express m\ appreciation
of what Dreco has done and
is still doing for me," declared Mr
Jas. T, Brockerr, the well known
traveling salesman who "covers"
Georgia, but whose home is in Greenwood,
S. C. He gave this statement
at Palmer & Sons drug store in Athens
a few days ago.
"It is no wonder to me the enormous
sale Dreco lias, since I know
some of its powers," he continued
- a
"for I feel that it has actually savea
my life and it deserves the highest
praise any one can give it."
"I have spent thousands of dollars
in search of health. Every stomach
remedy I heard of, I bought. I had
catarrh of the stomach and nothing
ever did me any good but this Dreco.
My kidneys were weak and my liver
inactive, but the great Eh*eco has
remedied all the ills. Nothing is too
good for me to say?in fact, I don't
know how to make it strong enough."
To keep the health up to the high
est standard, one must keep his
stomach in perfect order so that he
can digest and assimilate the food
ptroperly, thereby eliminating dyspepsia,
indigestion, biliousness, gas
on the stomach, backache, sallow
complexion, dark rings under the
eyes; in fact, all the symptoms that
follow stomach disorders. Dreco, the
herbal tonic, gives the desired results
in these distressing symptoms.
Dreco is now sold by all good druggists
throughout the country and is
highly recommended in Newberry by
Gilder & Weeks.
DRUM WARNS PE0P1
AGAINST SECRI
! "STICK T
R. H. Drum, President of The Drum
.Medicine company, has already created
a real sensation with his new
nature remedy. Peplax.
; Willi Peplax this expert has added)
a new idea to old knowledge, for in j
this medicine there are combined 3
famous nature remedies that are recognized
by everybody for their great
; special curative power in the common
forms of stomach, liver and kidney j
I trouble; for constipation and for !
nerve, blood and tissue building. j
i I
j As soon as these nature products!
! i
are told of?for there is no secrecy j
about Peplax?everyone understands S
why Peplax is designed net to relieve!
one organ only, hut to act on the entire
digestive tract.
uNo Secrecy," He Says.
I "I don't believe in secret remedies" |
declared Mr. Drum yesterday, "and I
ond mnmpn <?h0111H IvTlO'V i
, UCliC > C liiCU UUU Vf
1 just what they are taking; should!
know their medicine is safe and pure
and should know not only every iu-j
! srredient, *but what each ingredient is
for. Only by knowing these things
c&.n any one really judge a medicine.'
i "I freely tell all the nature reme-1
dies usea in repia*?cut? iww,
! barks and berries known to everyone
?And I tell why each one is used.
That is why people have such great
confidence in Peplax even before they
begin to take it They know that the
Peplax Nature remedies have been
established for more than one hundred
years and their wort'.i ius been
proved so many thousand tines that
??t-i. - a ^
tlrere is no aouui 01 tm.n mun.
I tniou? Mature Remedies,
i "The eight noted Nature product:;
so combined in Peplax that they are;
designer! to purify, invigorate and j
build up the delicate human machine
that means strength and life are:
j "Gentian root, best known of all
stomach tonics and designed to over
come indigestion ana sou ring
fermenting of food.
i "Dandelion root, the old reliable
DANDRUFF QUICKLY STOPPED
J There is only one way to cure dan
druff and that is to kill the germs.
There is only one hair preparation
that wifl kill the germs and that Is
.
jMildredina Hair Remedy. This uni
usual hair restorer with *ts record
J of thomsands of cures will grow hair
| on any head where there is any life
! left- u mires dandruff, stops falling
iV4W, !
hair and itching of the scalp in three
i
,
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rxepe
Uent
i Dr. Young M. 1
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honorably discfa
j United States J
opened a Dental
, 309 ^change
II Have Just j
A fihinment i
I Stone CI
| Milk Bo
|| Milk Pit
and Slop
Mayes' Book i
|^^^The House of a '
LE HERE
ET MEDICINES;
0 NAIURE," HE SAYS
nature aid to correct t;:e common
liver affections.
"Juniper berries, famous to at(i
purification cf the kidneys and bladder.
"Chinese Rhubarb root, known the
world over for its invigoraticn of the
intestines.
"Licorice root, which is recognize'!
it< nnwpr to allav irritation and
to remove foreign mucus that is clogging
the digesti/e tract.
"Jamaica Ginger root, the special
stomachic that increases the flow Jf
t:be vital digestive juices and stimulates
and nourishes the stomach blood
supply.
"Sarsaparilla root, most famous of
all blood remedies and Mandrake, the.-u
?? nrt?nj no. n narva tflllH' ^
U1U leillCijf uuicu as a ?v. v
and builder and designed to overcome
the sleeplessness of dyspaptics.
All Can Understand.
"Prom this list of famous remedies
now combined, everyone will see that
Peplax is more than a stomachic and"
system purifier. It is designed to give
Nature the same chance to build as
the cleansing and purifying of a
wound give nature the chance to healand
grow new tissue.
1 "Some of the symptoms tnat repiax
is designed to overcome are:
"Loss of appetite, stomach bloatj
ing, gassy and sour stomach, sick
headache, nausea, biliousness, torpict
liver, spots before the eyes, dizziness,,
pains in the l.mbs and back, shortness
of breath and a feeling of palpitation,
sleeplessness, weak nerves,,
bad breath, coated tongue, day drowsi
iness and a feeling of heaviness*
; heartburn, acid stomach, skin erup- ^
jtions and other signs of derangement
' 4 ^ 1
of tne aigesuve sysLem, wmupauuo
1 arr? Jiiifo-i:- orication."
Pep!?x, the famous Nature raedii
cine, can now be obtained in Newberry.
It is specially recommended.
*?t the?e leading drug stores: P. K.
Way. Nevrberry Drug Co., W. 0.
J.Miaves, Gilder & Weeks. Peplax i*
sold in Prosperity by the Prosperity
Drug Co., and by the leading drug
gist* everywhere. .
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: . * . - " v v > t * ; ;
weeks or your .money bacfc, |
It is the . most pleasant .and invig'orating
tonic, is not sticky or greasy^
[and is used extensively by ladies of
| refinement who'desire to have and t?>
keep their hair soft, lustrous and"
luxuriant. /
-Mayes' Drug Store is selling Mildredina
Hair 'Remedy on a positive
guarantee to remove dandruff or
money refunded at 75c and $1.25 *.
bottle. Out-of-town customers ?upI
niiMi Tvmail.
I -<f
ndable
istrv
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Srown has been
larged from the ' j
Vrmy. He has n ...
office at 1
Bank Building
?s
Received j
of?
hums,
wis,
rhm
> Jars.
? Variety Store
Thousond Things
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