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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 230, 27 March 1912, Page 6

Incredible though it may seem, there is at present in New York a composer earning an income of £15,000 a year, although he cannot write or read a noto of music. Two years ago this composer, Irving Berlin, was a waiter in a Chinato<irn restaurant, and it was his custom to pick out on the piano his own tunes for the entertainment of the customers. Somebody suggested that he should get a friend to put them into music for him, and one of these tunes, known as "Alex- | ander's Rag-time Band," which is now being whistled and sung all over America, looks like beating all .music publish- : «»' records, for in a few months over a million copies of the song had been sold. After the famous Marathon race m London, which resulted in the disqualification of Dorando, Mr. Berlin wrote a song named after the little Italian, and played it for the first time in his restaurant, where it made a big hit. He sold it for £5, and the publisher made £4OOO out of it. He now obtains better prices for his work, and is said to be getting an income of £ 15,800 a year. HEADACHES. . Many suffer severely with headaches, but they will derive great benefit from a course of L,axo-Tonic Pills. The wellknown laxative and tonic properties of these pills are of wonderful effect in purifying the blood, and toning up the sys- *??• , P^ ie ,?' 10 % d an <l I* 6d. Obtainable at Bullock and Johnston's.

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