Police of Liege were called out to trace a woman to whom six hours earlier a chemist had sold corrosive sublimate in mistake for a vermifuge. At 4 a.m. the police awakened all the inhabitants in the quarter to which the woman was believed to have gone, and after two hours’ inquiries she was found, waiting for her child to waken before giving it the supposed remedy.
Down and out! Without shelter and feed, Facing foul fortune in scornful mood, Searching for “bumpers” where strewn about, Nothing much matters when “down and out.’ Breathing the vapours of stub and fag Comforts a vagrant when night-hours ■ drag; Dreaming of banquets and rapture pure, And soothing Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 11,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1938, Page 8
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119Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1938, Page 8
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