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The Penn's Grove record., 1896-10-02
Gludness Comes

With a better understanding of the
Wv transient nature of the many phys
ical ills which vanish before proper eff
forts-gentle efforts-pleasant efforts
rightly directed. There is comfort in
the knowledge that sc many forms of
sickness are not due to any actual dis
ease, but simply to a constipated eondi-
ton of the system, which the pleasant
family laxative, Syrupo of Figs, prompt
ly removes. That is why it is the only
remedy with millions of families, and is
everywhere esteemed so highly by all
who value good health. Its beneficial
effects are due to the fact, that it is the
one remedy which promotes internal
cleanliness, without facilitating the
organs on which it acts. tits therefore
all important, in order to get its bene-
fetal effects, to note when You pur-
chase, that you nave the genuine article,
which is manufactured by the California
Fig Syrup Co. only, and sold by ali ep-
utable druggists.
tIf in the enjoyment of good health,
and the system is regular, then 1aXa-
tives or other remedies are not needed.
If afflicted with any actual disease, one
may be commended tothe most s~lSillful
physicians, but if in need of a laxative
then one should have the best, and with
the well-informed everywhere, Syrupof
Figs stands highest and is most largely
used and gives most general satisfaction.
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Slumber Song.
Slumber, stun Der, little one. now
The bird is asleep in his nest Oh the bOugh,
The bird is asleep. he has folded his wings;
And over him softly the dream-fairy singsi
Lullaby, lulluby-lullabyi
Pearls in the deep
Stars in the sky,
Dreams in our sleep:
So lullaby!
Blumber, slumber, little one, soon
The fairy will come in the ship Of the
moon;
The fairy will come with the pearls and
the stars,
And dreams will come singing through
shadOwy bars:
Lullaby, lullaby-lullabyi
Pearls in the deep
Stars in the sky,
Dreams in our sleep;
So lullaby!
Slumber, slumber, little one, so;
The stars are the pearls that the dream
fairies know
The stars are the pearls, and the bird In
the nest,
A dear little fellow the fairies love best:
Lullaby, lullaby-lullabyl
Pearls in the deep
Stars in the sky,
Dreams in our sleep;
SO lullaby!
Ladies' Home Journal.
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How did De Courcey Fitzalan. the
actor, come to change boarding
housesT'
His landlady got personal the other
morning"
How was thatT">
well, she was particularly pleased
with her breakfast and she asked him
how the eggs struck him."-Spare Mo-
ments-
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Cigarettes and Crime.

A cigarette need not neces-
sarily be a criminal, but the experience
Of the police In charge of the station
houses goes to show that nearly al
criminals are cigarette smokers. Al
a rule the first thing that a criminal
asks for after being locked up is a
package Of eigarettes.-Loulsvllle Com
merciGi
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CoIoneITAat stupid servant of mine
put some gunpowder in the fire last
night and was blown clean through the
roof.
Brown-That must be rather awk'
ward for you.
CIsionel-Yes, hang 1t; he's the third
who has left without giving notice.
Exchange.
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Friend Of the family-Johnnie, I sup.
pose you are delighted with the new
little brother at your house2
Johnnie-New, nothin'. He's second.
hand. The doctor brought him in and
there's no telIn' Low man. families
has had him before.-Detroit Free
Pross.
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The ashes OF coal from the mines
of the Transvaal Coal Trust and other
companies in South Africa have
been analysed recently, and fouod to
contain nine pennywelghts of gold TO
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The use of aluminium plates for
lighographine appears to be upon the
increase. The aluminium plate can be
used quite thin so that the weight is
from 100 tc 1000 times less than the
stone, and the cost is about 1000th OF
a stone.
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Mother-For mercy's sake, child
what do you expect to do in the
world? You can't cook nor sew MOI
teach school and you are not al
heiress; what Il you do? Daughter
Well, mother, 1 get married
can't Is-Texas Siftings.
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Heidi you know that an apphca.
ton of raw veal Is an excellent cure for
sunburn?
She-Dear me! 1t seems that If l
wanted to kiss a girl l would ask for IL
instead Of limiting. Cincinnati En-.
guirer.
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For the farm weather.

Hoax-I've got a great scheme for the
warm weather.
Joax-Let's have 1t.
Hoax-Tm going to keep a small boy
near me sharpening slate pencils. II
always makes M blood run cold
Wo0nsocket Reporter.
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How Awful

Mrs. De Fashion-The papers are
/ again limiting of a war In Europe.
Mrs. De Stylc-That would be ter
| rible. Mrs. De Fashion-Perfectly
dreadful We'd have to stay at homS
this summer. New York Weekly.
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All the neighbors say that Ran
Hughitt has a kink in his head. They
all like him, too, only no n ever feels
certain what odd prank he will play
next.
Ran, or Ransome, according to the
family Bible, lives with his father on
a market garden near Evanston. Most
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1t is said thatSa New South Wales
man has patented a diving-bell with
which work can be done under water
at a depth of 5000 feet.
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Life-boats are now being made in
some quarters of pumice stone. This is
a material of great lightness and
strength, and a boat made thereof will
support a considerable load, even when
full Of water.
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He was a boy. Not large, as small
boys go, but 1t was n long time since
he had been a baby. Years and
years" he would have said TO himself
In fact, 1t was so long ago that he
couldn't remember anything about it.
He had no recollection of being car
ried aboutin long clothes, ana it would
never have occurred to him that there
was a time when he could not trOt
around upon his sturdy little legs. A.
baby came into the family. AT first
the queer little thing could not get
around alone at all. Then 1t began to
sit on the floor and creep around In a
peculiar fashion of its own. That was
evidently the way babies solved the
question of iocomotiOn, the small boy
thought, though he did not put II into
so many words. 1t was something as
the puppies and kittens ran around
only not quite as satisfactory. But one
day there came a surprise for the small
boy. The baby had pulled itself up
and stood by a chair. The small boy
gazed In amazement. Then he found
his voice: oh, mamma, mamma" he
called, the baby's standing on its
hind legs"
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Half the newspapers are so careless
ly proof reid that the word "Hobrat'
is becoming familiar enough to seen
proper.
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Cartridges tested by Roentgen rays
10 show that they have been carefully
loaded are offered for sale by a London
gnnsmith.
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The Vermont State prison is a SELF
sustaining institution. "Every State
prison should be-" maintains the New
port (R. ~ Herald,
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-10-02

When Elijah said, 'If the Lord be
God. follow him." not a soul respond
ed. But when he said, Fiji four bar.
rels with water" what . crowd stepped
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do you wi h to know how to have no steam,
and not half the usual iO0rk on wash-dayf Ash
votir grocer for a bar of Dobbins' Electric Soap,
and the directions wifi tell you how. Be sure
TO get no imitation. There are lots of them.
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OUR BOYS AND GIRLS
THIS 10 THEIR DEPARTMENT OF
THE PAPER.

Quaint Sayings and Cute Doinss of the
Little Folks Everywhere, Gathered
and Printed Here for All Other Lit
tie Ones to lead.
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SERVANT GIRLS in LONDON.

Mr. Wins.ow's soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens The gums. reduces ihtamma-
tion, aflays pain. cures wind collie. 10 u oosa4
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Cure Guaranteed by DIR. j. MAYER, l0lJ
Arch st., rH1LA., PA. Ease at once, no opera
lion or delay from business. Consultation free.
Endorsements OF phi ysicians. ladies and proml'
nent citizens. send Tor circular. 0lice hour. }
A NJ. 10 SIP. NJ.
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oId.Enshioned Doctrine.

"And now, my son." said the aged
father, at the windup of his homily,
"when a nan insults you do not try to
peat him in the courts. Beat him In
the ace."-Cincinnatt Enquirer.
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Dropping or striking a steel nae guet,
or causing it to vibrate by any other
means, diminishes its magnetism.
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A marriage Is more prosaic and dub
| than an engagement because there is
90 nattery In It
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Afler physicians had given me up. / was saved
BY Piso's Cure-RALPH EglRd, W~illiamsport, Pa.
Nov. %. 1893
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Mr.. p. D. Palmer, city editor OF
the oskaloosa, Ia, Times, under
date of May 9th. 1895, rolates the fol-
lowing experience: "Reoently I was
compelled by a serious siege OF dys-
pepsia to leave my Office work. and
thought to seek relief by a months
travel on the Pacific coast. The
rest and change helped me some
what, but l could find no relief for
the awful fits of indigestion. When
about 10 return home to IowsI
entered a prominent drug store inl
Tacoma, Wash and asked for
something that would bring relief
from M indigestion. The druggist
sold me q box OF Ripans Tabules fori
90 cents. In less than tw~enty-four
hours l could feel a change for the
better. From that day to this l have
used Ripans Tabules whenever 1 felt
my old ailment getting in its work,
and with most commendablo
results,"
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Glycerine is derived from the lye
left after making soap, which for ages
was considered of no use.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-10-02

Rtpans Tabules arc sold by druggists, OF BY man
Chemical CImpnny, NJ. 10 spruce ST., New York
Simple vial, 10 cents.
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some excuse I leave the church." he
said. 81 have with me an English sail
or who shall deliver It,"
Camille scrubbed a few ines on a
leaf in his pocket book, folded 1t ana
handed it to his brother, who called
Greg to him.
You know this lady by sightf' he
asked. pointing to the superscription'
The young sailors face was as steady
as q rock as he answered in the atirma-
tive.
Take 1t to her in the church, then,
and return yourself immediately. II
you do not return l will march my men
to the church and fire upon the people"
said Fourier.
Greg disappeared in the shrubbery
which adjoined the churchyard.
Pushing open the door, he removed
his cap and tiptoed reverently up the
aisle toward the chancel, where Peggy
Dempster was seated with the choir.
But without approaching the choir
Greg ran quickly up the pulpit steps
Mr.. Gillyhower turned upon him angrl'
ly, but on hearing the words whfet
we're rapidly whispered in his a the
vicar looked first startled, then shrewu
Iy intelligent. His communication nm
lshed, Greg left the church as quickly
as he had entered, with Camille -Four
aier's note still in his pocket, and with
out once looking at Peggy.
On the manor house lawn, where I'M
French seamen made a picturesque
group under the Trees, Greg's return
was hailed with reclamation by TN
oficers-by the two Fourniers espe
cialy.
What did she do when you gave me-
the o 2" asked Camille eagerly.
"She just did nothing" was the suh
concerned reply.
You see. my Asar Csmiile, she ma
changd her mind Sdid the captain
COINS :: rs be on put Of this
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-23
Subscribe for the REPORTER.

The Short Course in the Agricultural
department is one of the most interest
ing features Of the University of Wis
consin. This course is especially
designed for young men who wish to
become active, energetic and system
attic workers in the broad field of agri-
culture. The course is given during the
months of January, February and
March, VIXEN the young men can be
well spared from the farm and with
small expenditure can secure a store of
practical information that will 60 long
way toward fitting them to become
dairy and farm managers. The course
is divided into first and second year
work; it thus takes a student two
winters to finish the course and secure
the certificate of completion. The Short
Course is intended 10 i've the greatest
practical amount of knowledge i'm
mediately applicable to farming, in the
least time and at the smallest expense,
especially in the lines of feed and feed
ing, breeds and breeding, agricultural
chemistry, agricultural physics, horti-
culture, economics of agriculture, veter-
mary science, practical mechanics,
bookkeeping and drill in parliamentary
practice, essay writing and debating.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-23
TERSELY TOLD.
(By E. r. Petherick.l

(By E. R. Petherick.l
The man who says there is no God
probably knows of his inner conscious
ness that the fact of such an imperfect
being as himself existing would throw
discredit on all-wise Creator
Is there a father in the world with
vanity enough to wish that his son may
grow up like unto himself?
Providence shows kindly interest in
the human race by inficting the curse
Of coWardice upon tyrants, and thus
keeping them somewhere within
bounds.
The man who meyer made fool OF
himself about woman never happened
to meet the right one.
An idea is the only thing that defes
the laws of gravitation, and has its
surest standing on its point.
The doctor who conceived the idea
that hot water will put a coat on a mans
stomach, when it is known that it will
take one off dogs back, was daring
theorist, to say the least.
Old age would not feel half so wise if
it did not lave the folIies of youth to
look back to,
There is such vague, vapOry an I'M
defined boundary between religion and
superstition that it is improper to at
tempt to belittle any mans sincere
belief.
Jealousy is one of those unfortunate
complaints that are painful without ex-
citing sympathy.
There is more real comfort in being a
small man in big town than a big man
in a small one.
What are luxuries today become
necessaries tomorrow, IF we do not
watch ourselves.
How nice and easy it would be to get
along if it were no more labor to saw
wood for money than to row boat for
fun.
The great success of life consists in so
living that each receding year leaves
pleasant memories.
New ideas, like fresh wine, are apt to
be more valuable after they have
worked without souring.
There is no trouble about finding a
reason that is good enough to back a
prejudice.
One trouble about trying to make
both ends meet is that we are apt to
break the middle.
Fame brings the disadvantage of be-
ing looked on as public property.
Labor is worse than lost when it is
spent in doing harm to somebody.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-23
The Mother Love.

The preference of motherhood is
generally based on an instinct which
tends to protect the one whom others
do not favor-not only the weak and
feeble, but the bad and worthless. And
it is better so. 1t is better that the
mother heart, erring in its judgment
and hoping against hope to the end,
should still go out, loving and condon-
ing, plying and sustaining where none
other can and will; for there will always
be plenty to bear hardly upon the
sinner, while endless compassion and
undying love are seldom found in this
world outside the mothers heart.
Many black sheep can vouch for the
truth Of this maternal instinct. Many
man has been rescued and brought
back to manhood and good citizenship,
who without the tender plying com
passion and sustaining force of
mothers love, would have been wholly
lost.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-23
PLAINFIELD.

J. G. Campbell, OF Stevens Point, was
in town Friday.
W. t. Jones, of Centralia, was here
on business last Friday and Saturday.
Mrs. James Rozell is lying very sick
at her home here.
Heavy rains have fallen here which
gives farmers much encouragement as
they start in with this seasons work.
A. J. ROzell, of the Hancock News,
was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. j. w.
BOvee over Sunday.
Mrs. Oscar Wiley, an old resident of
this county died last Thursday at her
home south Of here. The funeral was
held Saturday.
Clarence Bursell, who has been very
sick with consumption several years
died Friday night. He was about 81
years old and unmarried. The funeral
was held Monday and the Odd Fellows
Lodge, of which he was an honored
member attended in body. x
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-23
High School Notes.

The greatest step made this year il
the matter of lettering the grade Work
was the adoption and purchase by the
board of a complete set of supple
mentary readers for all grades below
the High school. The following is the
list: First Grade-Riverside Literature
Primer; Second grade-Eclectic Fairy
Stories and Fables and Cyr's Second
Reader; Third grade-Standard Golden
Book of Choice Reading, Oak series;
Fourth grade-Stories of American Life
and Adventure; Fifth and Sixth grades
Heart of Oak series No. /; Seventh
grade-Standart Readings Ill Nature S
Book; Eighth grade-Seven American
Classics. These books are the property
Of the school and are loaned to the
classes when the reader prescribed in
the course is finished.
Miss Perry is making the experiment
of having her pupils do without the use
Of states and the success of the plan
justifes the change. The days of the
unhealthy, uncleanly, noisy slate are
numbered. The city schools in New
York and in Lynn, Mass, have recently
discontinued their use on hygenic
grounds.
Mr.. Brazeau made flying trip to
Madison last week on joint debate
business.
Frank Ford is teaching Miss Briere's
room in the second ward this week.
A ball game with Centralia has been
arranged for this coming Saturday. It
will probably be the first Of series
between the schools.
Friday, May LIST, is Arbor Day and
the rhetorical program on that dav will
be on subjects suitable to the occasion.
The program will be published next
week.
"Ikey" Karel, the famous University
half-back, has promised to coach our
next years foot ball team for a short
time at the beginning of the fall term.
The class in Botany are preparing for
plant analysis to begin next week under
Mr.. Hambrecht's direction.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-23
Federal Life Insurance Company.

Some time since there appeared an
item IN the Milwaukee Sentinel to
the effect that Insurance Commissioner
Frickc had decided that certain life in
surance companies doing business in
this state should show cause why their
license should not be revoked. E. H.
w hitcomb, secretary of the above COM
pany, appeared in Madison the past
week and convinced Mr. Fricke that he
could not prevent their company doing
business in the state except by the re-
peal of an act which gave them the right
to do business. Mr.. Fricke saw the
point. G. j. Carman, state agent for
this company, received the following
telegram from Mr.. Whitcomb on Thurs
day last:
MADISON, Wis, April Is, 1896.
c. j. Carman:
Wisconsin department has issued
license to Federal Life Insurance Co.,
L. H. WAITCoMB
The reader will probably remember
that the Federal Life Insurance Co.
was authorized to do business in this
state by special act Of the legislature
and therefore could not be denied the
right except by repeal Of said law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-23
RUDOLPH.

Mrs. Lizzy SWEDISH left Monday
morning for her home in Menasha after
a three weeks visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
f. Phillips.
Miss Della Sharkey came down from
Mosinee last Monday to attend the
Easter dance returned home Tuesday.
C. L. Enking, of Fond du Lac, made
a business trip to this berg last Thurs
day.
Joe Warsaw sold his farm last week to
Mr.. Joe Stelser of Menasha.
T. P. Scott who spent Easter in
Dubuque, Iowa, returned last Friday.
There will be Charity ball given in
T. Phillips hall April 25th.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-23
WISCONSIN PATENTS.

The following patents, granted this
week to Wisconsin inventors, are re-
ported expressly for the Reporter, by
H. G. Underwood, Solicitor of Patents,
l07 Wisconsin St. Milwaukee:
F. D. Crandall, assgr. Sturgeon Bay,
car coupling; 7. J. Duggan, Milwaukee,
attaching cards to cars etc.; II. w.
Falk, Milwaukee, rail joints and forming
same, (3) and forming joints on railway
tracks; D. Laplanie, West Superior,
MASKING and meat rendering machine
T. W. Mase, Oshkosh, assgr. bridge
gate; A. McNaughton, Waukesha,
extension-seat; n. Motelet, Avoca,
refrigerator; G. L. Sholes, Milwaukee,
assgr. typewriting machine; H. c.
Swan, Oshkosh, running gear for
vehicles, King bolt socket for vehicles;
F. A. Walsh, Milwaukee, sheet metal
vessel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-23
Your Boy Wont Live a rIontf.

So Mr.. Gilman Brown, of 81 Mill St.,
South Gardner, Mass, was told by the
doctors. His son had lung trouble,
following Typhoid Malaria, and he
spent three hundred and seventy-five
dollars with doctors, who finally gave
him up, saying: "Your boy wont live
a month" He tried DR.. Kings New
Discovery and a few bottles restored
him to health and enabled hin 10 90 to
work perfectly well man. H says he
owes his present good health % use of
DR.. Kings New Discovery, and knows
1t to be the best in the world for Lung
trouble. Trial bottles free at Daly's
Drug store.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-23
NEiGHBORiNG NOTES.
Taken From Cur Exchanges and COM
densed for Local Readers.

Wes:ficld Union.-A. i. Laphan was
down from Nekoosa the first OF the
week. He has been quite sick during
the winter, and is still suffering from a
touch of paralysis.
yellow River Pilot-"Spin" Down
ing, who recently graduated from the
high school at Grand Rapids, is now
serving an apprenticeship with L. E.
Miller, on the farm.
Wausau Central--Mrs. lii Craven has
been secured as matron for the new
nurses home to be soon opened IN this
CITY, Mrs. Craven's friends congratu-
late her on her good fartune IN securing
this we'll merited favor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-23
All Intelligent PhysiciarS.

Now admit that the majority of
human ills arise from the liver. DR..
Rays LiverT is prepared solely for
diseases Of the liver. 1t cleanses and
sweetens the stomach, cures biliousness,
sick headache, indigestion and melan-
chOly. For sale by John E. DAILY.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-23
IT IS WONDERFUL

how quickly Diarrhea or Dysentery can
be relieved by using Beggs' Diarrhea
Balsam. A purely vegetable compound
1t affords instant relief and perma-
nent cure in a perfectly safe way. Your
popular druggist JOHN Z. DAILY has the
agency for this wonderful medicine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-23
BEGGSi HAIR REVIEWER.

No preparation ever put on the
mar ket has given such universal salts
faction. 1t is not only hair remover
and inylgorator, but cleanses the scalp
Of all dandruff, leaving the hair soft,
glossy and luxuriant. Sold by John E.
Dalv
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-23
IT DOES NOT PAY

to experiment with medicines. Beggs'
Blood Purifier is no novelty. A record
Of twenty years proves it to be the best
known formula for enriching the blood
and driving from the system those I'M
purities which breed disease. For sale
by John E. Daily, Druggist.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-23
Fishing Tackle.

Split bamboo poles, cane poles,
phantom minnows, skinner spoons,
Carlisle and Limbrick hooks, minnow
pals, trout baskets, etc.
CENTRALIA HARDWARE Co.