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"My wife and r we.ro quite startled by hearing our littlo girl cough a real croupy cough," writes 1!. .A. Young, Cudal, N.S.W. "I at once got: a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and gave it to her. In the- morning thcro was no sign of croup and her cough rapidly loft her," Tho British Homo Secretary gives in the Parliamentary papers a set of asfounding figures Hoarding the number of women who were reported to the London police m having disappeared during the Inst twelve months. In reply to Mr. Snowden ho writes:—"During the last twelve months. 1118 girls between the ages of ten nnd sixteen were reported to the Metropolitan Police as missing. Of • these 1102 were traced. "Two thousand six hundred, and seventy-six women of all nges above sixteen were reported as missing, and 2,140 of them woto traced." In nine months the receipts from Sun- I day kinomatograph entertainments in the ' London County Council area amounted to * nearly ,£IOO,OOO.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1528, 26 August 1912, Page 2
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