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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 376, 23 April 1908, Page 3

PRIZE ADVERTISEMENT. Each week a Guinea is awarded for the Best Original Conundrum, Apt Essay, or Humorous Verse on the Merits of THE UNIVERSAL COLD CURE. This week a humorous verse won. Here it is ; Let philosophers prate as they will; Let physicians persist in their pill: To me there is nothing more perfect or truer, In all this wide world, than Universal Cold Cure. One guinea has been posted to M.D. c/o Dr. Duff, Nelson. Contributions must not exceed thirty words : must be accompanied by the Coupon around each bottle ; and should be addressed: “Universal Cold Cure (The Latest and Best), P.O. Box Wellington.”

“ To wliat do you attribute your Pre-eminence?” asked the interviewer Of Madam Melba lately. *• What keeps your voice so clear and pure, The tone so steady, firm and sure, That charms the world so greatly ?” •• I kill a cold at once,’’ said she, “ With Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, you see." 1 In the window of the Bon Marche, Palmerston North, there is to be seen this-week a magnificent assortment of fur goods, including some very handsome Stone Marten, Luoir’s sets, (stole and muff), and ranging in price from twenty guineas to £35 the set. They are admittedly the handsomest furs ever shown in Palmerston. C. M. Boss and Co. invite inspection.—Am i.