“A dem’d, damp, moist, unpleasant body!”—-Dickens, in “Nicholas Nickleby.” Everybody knows what an unpleasant thing <a cold is. It' you use ter’s Lung Preserver frequently, you need no*, worry about coughs and colds or sore throats. This fine old tested remedy soothes chests and throats, cuts phlegm, and is also an invaluable tonic. Famous for ovejs’half*a-century. Obtainable at. all chemists and stores. Generous-sized bottle 2s 6d. good beginning is half the busi ness.”—Platq. A unique experience was the lot of a party of motorists returning to Napier one evening last week from Wairoa (says the JNapier _ “Daily Telegraph.”) When traversing the road bordering the Tongoio lagoon the vehicle ran into a warm of frogo busily engaged in hopping across the thoroughfare from the landward side. To a reporter one of the party confided the intelligence that so numerous were the reptiles and so energetic in their athletics that it seemed as n the whole road itself was alive and engaged in a lioppiilg competition. In the glare of the car’s headlights the jumping creatures presented an almost uncanny sight. “Talk about the plague of frogs in Egypt,” said the motorist. “I’m open to gamble that Pharaoh had nothing on our Title experience.” Prevent that dangerous and costly metal to metal contact in your car by using Duckham’s New Process Motor-Oil. It forms a film.—4:
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10318, 29 January 1927, Page 10
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