A farmer wrote to the editor of an agricultural paper asking for a method of ridding his orchard of the grasshopper plague (relates the “Wairarapa Daily News”), in the same mail the editor received a request for advice from an anxious mother'about her baby - twins who were having a hard time teething. The editor’s stenographed mixed the replies, with the result that the farmer received f he following: “Wrap flannel cloths around their throats. Rub their gums with castor oil and massage their stomachs twice a day.” The anxious mother received this startling advice: “Cover with dry straw. Soak thoroughly with coal oil and apply a match! The little pests will soon stop bothering you.” For Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great Pepermlnt Cure.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4573, 11 June 1923, Page 2
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123Page 2 Advertisements Column 6 Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4573, 11 June 1923, Page 2
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