In A ustin almost everything is plastered over with big patent medicine advertisements. Iv the court-yard of an betel there is a big cistern, and on it is an advertisement in letters about a foot-and* half long "Smith's Diseased Liver Remedy." A stranger from the Nrt&saw the hotel clerk draw a bucket of water from the cistern on which the above -sign was plastered, and then he said, as though .to himself, "I've-lieata it was sickly iv Au»tio,.but I never expected to •*• people * draw off their medicine by the bucketful,"
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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4295, 6 October 1882, Page 2
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90Untitled Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4295, 6 October 1882, Page 2
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