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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 445, 27 October 1904, Page 5

Lockjaw sometimes follows on the running of a pin or rusty nail into the hand or foot. The remedy, states an American contemporary, is simply, always at hand, can be applied by anybody, and, what is better, is infallible. It is simply to smoke the wound or any wound that is bruised or inflamed over a burning woollen cloth. Twenty minutes in the smoke will take the pain out of the worst inflammation arising from such a wound. People may sneer at this remedy as much as they please, but let them try it. It is a simple •' aseptic " or germ-killer. The treatment is a good one for any wound, and especially for jagged, abraded lacerations.—" Southland Times." For sustained poetic flight there is nothing to beat the small Western American papers. Their marriage notices are especially good. The yotiithfui heart of the country burgeons out on such occasions in a way that only the youthful heart itself (or. Miss Marie Corelli) cotud adequately describe. Look, for instance, at this from the Cleveland " Press ":—" Again have radiant, fragrant, young maiden's eye 3, luminous with love and joy, beamed through bridal veils, the most ecstatic hope of every maiden's heart. Miss Lottie Rule, of Lexington, is the maiden with beauty's crimson glow on her cheeks made happy by nuptial rites, and HJarry Hedrick, of Mansfield, is the cavalier I who, with the gallantry of plumed knights of ancient love, wooed and won her pure and tender heart." And that is only the begin-