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Milford chronicle., 1929-12-13
Il FL t H E M
BY William Rankinl
Keokuk, IowS

(This series of articles repaired
under the direction of the as Me
Tnorial Institute, which is Organized to
perpetuate the life work of the late
Major General Gorgas in preventing
unnecessary illness. Headquarters of
the Institute are at 1881 G Street, N.
W., Washington, d. c.
Children, even quite young ones,
are capable not only of learning
simple health rules but of grasping
the reasons for them. The children
in past generations were given sui
phur and molasses or sassafras tea
each spring and may not have un-
derstood why. But in the present
time a young child can easily be
taught what it is all about.
For example, he soon grasps why
it is to his benefit to go to a physi-
clan in the spring. The parents
should have approached the visit
without too much talking before
hand and had the attitude that It
was "a matter of course" that in the
spring the child be looked over to
see if any illnesses of the past win
ter had left traces which needed
correction or watching. The child
does not have to be told about in
fected tonsils, dental carries, enlarg-
ed glands, abnormal hearts or dis
Milford chronicle., 1929-12-13

Unfortunately, international re-
form is more exciting than personal
reforml If it wasn't we might get
somewhere.
Milford chronicle., 1929-12-13

Rumor is the food of gossip.
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expensive. It may come In
handy!'
The stolen money! The cynical
gleam of relish in Carmichael's
eyes as he. uttered HIS flippancies!
For one instant Dick measured
his man. Then, with all his force,
he hurled himself forward. In the
impetus Carmichaeis gun went
flying from his hand. Carmichael
stopped as If carried off his feet
by the suddenness of the attack.
A hoarse, inarticulate sound burst
from Dicks throat. At the same
instant. Carmichaels long arms
thrust forward and gripped him
about the knees.
Even as Dick went pitching
head first into the rocks, he knew
he had been beaten by another
wrestler's trick, learned out in
the East" The next moment,
crashing sound seemed to split his
head. as he struck the rocks in
his fall. and he knew nothing else.
CHAPTER xxx
When Dick came to again he
was in a world of night. Past
him rushed the wind, and over
head the stars were thick in the
sky.
He was flying through space,
flying in his own ship but with
Carmichael at the controls.
Difficult to reason 1t all out,
difficult to think clearly on any.
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Stuyvesant Finds Love at
First Sight, But SOrdidness
OF Divorce Fight Blocks
Way to Happiness
CHAPTER ONE
Single Step"

WJHE Overland Limited days out of Chicago and
the least friendly of its passengers beginning
to smile and nod to another when they passed In
the ase the dining observation The
comradeship of the West had begun.
Perhaps the pretty girl who stayed by herself in compart
did not know that Certainly the grave young
H compartment B. who spent most of his time playing soil
!. tare, paid attention to it.
The of travellers the famous motion picture
actress on the way to Hollywood had become family.
Everyone knew that the frail little in brown
going to join her husband apan that the girl with the
hair married Washington and that the
pale boy with his mother going seek health in the
dry desert country They knew many facts of anothr
lives and they resented quite openly the excusveness OF
the other two.
The girl blonde slender and fashionaby dressed moved
though invisible veil protected her from contact with
the world. They guessed her to be countessperhaps
prncess-ravelng incognito But guessing all
they could do Something in her discouraged
ordinary friendliness
The young equally puzzlng He was the sort
who feminine interest-ruggedy goodlooking,
with broad shoulders and slender hands, the sengthnd
tenderness of thing But he certainly unresponsve
The red-hared girl declared he either fugitive from
justice or brokenhearted Perrot going to the East to
drink himself to death in approved romantic fashion.
Dick Meets THE" Girl
Travelng to the Orient7 she asked him afternoon
when he sought breath Of air the observation platform
And provocativey when he shook his head 81 thought
perhaps you missionary going to the heathen"
strange look into his eyes. perhaps am going
to the heathen'' he said, and turned away.
He moved through the cars, dc , in thought, opened
compartment door and absently entered.
girl sitting at the window looked up. Her startled
blue eyes flashed question.
"Oh, I'm sorry!" he apologized 81 thought it my
compartment-the doors look so all alike /"
The girl smiled shy smile with something in it Of
amusement at his bunder and something else-a sort of
eagerness that he felt rather than Lord! She
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the automatic in . gesture Of
command.
what are you going to do with
us?" Dick demanded. Mary, stand
ing at his shoulder, had not
spoken. She stared at Carmichael
as If at some horror.
Carmichaefs brows went up
whimsically. You mustn't expect
me to take you in to my conf.
dence completely" he said with
an air of mock reproof. ."How.
ever, / can say this. The three
Of us are going to take quite a
little hop. I shall then say
heart.breaking farewell to you.
Outside of little discomfort,
neither of you will be harmed"
Carmichael" Dick burst out.
Rand is in Starktown prison.
He's to die tonight unless you
prevent it."
BY the simple process of dying
in his placer" Carmichael asked
dryly. Trent, let's talk OF some.
thing else! Self:sacrifice has al
ways been a little rauseating to
me. Suppose you two get into
your plane"
Still covering them, Carmichael
reached one hand toward the door
of the express compartment. He
unlocked it deftly, and pulled out
a bulky package.
Wed better transfer this little
matter to your plane also" he
murmured. Travelling is always
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By Donald E. Keyhoe

yes" he went on, IT admit
that wasn't part of my plans.
Robbery of course! Perez and I
fixed it together. I drove out that
night to wait for him after Perez
fixed the gauge. But l had no
notion Lawson was armed. So /
had to use a wrestler's trick /
learned out in the East, got him
down and tapped him. I struck
too hard. got the money. /
was really upset that morning.
had everything ready. Perez and
] We're going to jump on tramp
steamer. Then Miss Rand, dear
girl, came to the rescue. The mo-
ment she pointed out it was the
old mans pistol, I saw the rest!'
He laughed. relishing every
word of his account.
1t was simple enough to sneak
that canvas sack into Rand's
house. While you two went into
inc SdIuCItS SIippGus uUWH " the
cellar, and popped it in the fur.
mace where 1t wouldn't burn.
That was clever morep Trent
Give me credit for that. Then all
the angels in heaven worked for
me. Blessed if the old man
didn't refuse to offer an alibi!
When you and Miss Rand man.
aged to unearth one, conferred
with Won Siechner."
You bought him" Dick .ex-
claimed. you bought his liep'
My dear boy, you could buy
Won Siechnem's eyes If you wanted
to pay for them. ! knew him out
Batavia way-years ago" He
broke off. So now I win. and
you lose, A happy ending to a
jolly little story, Trent! And you
ought to be able to write about
me some day. The Sky Raider
the first Of them all!' He jerked
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ITO Reno-where women are
free and the only bonds are those
that bear coupons" The grin be
came rueful. I'm not in your
class, Dick. You know that. I'm
not a master of fortune and in
dependent. In fact, right now,
I'm quite dependent" He paused,
drained his glass and put 1t down.
'fOf course" he continued, "one
wouldn't marry a lovely lady
simply for her money. But II
one should find a lady who was
truly charming and who at the
same time did happen to have
money, well-Reno's headquarters,
after ar. And rou know. Dic!ly.
I've a feeling that as a husband
I'll be a conspicuous success. Re
Dicks lips tightened and ]. b.
stopped apologetically. Sorry.
my boy. Tell me your troubles.
What happened?"
Dick thought q moment be-
fore he answered carefully:
Nothing really happened. That
is-nothing special. There's no
scandal. We didn't throw things
at each other, or anything like
that. We Just seem to have
reached a point where we cannot
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THE SKY-RAIDER

thing at all, with hts head racked
by agony itself!
Only by sheer effort Of viii, re-
fusinE even now to give up, could
he force himself to consider the
predicament into which he had
fallen.
Carmichael--Carmichael had ad.
mitted everything, explained every
thing! They had fought. Then
that trick-that trick that sent
him flying over Carmichael's
shoulders. He must have been
lifted into the plane. And Mary
what of Mary?
Through dazed eyes he saw her
then, in the cockpit in front, her
head resting against the fuselage,
her eyes closed, as If in final de-
spair. Pitifully. the picture
wrenched his heart. drove his
senses to last attempt to gain
mastery of a hopeless situation.
Beside Mary Carmichael grasped
the controls, guided the ship
through the night toward some
unknown destination.
Where were they being taken?
And for that matter why? Too
weak to move Dick shut his eyes,
tried to think. Carmichael thought
him Unconscious still. To let him
continue In that error was at least
an advantage.
For what reason had Carmichael
taken them along? He had the
money safe and Perez was waiting
for him somewhere. Why did he
need to take them with him?
The simple truth came home to
him, indisputedly. Carmichael
was removing all possible wit.
nesses! BY what means? Death?
1t was possible, it was believable.
And yet even Carmichael might
stop at that. What was It he had
said-they would come to no
harm?-and something else about
discomfort?
Go be Continued TomOrroW)
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Dick smiled grimly as he thought
OF his furtive departure from the
station.
But what was John Berkeley
good old J. B.-doing in Reno?
Bachelor and sport. cynic--and
what an older generation had
called libertine-supely Reno Of
fAred nothing that he could want!
Within the door, Dick felt he
would have known without being
told that these were j. BIS rooms.
Cocktail shaker and glasses, photo
graphs of pretty women-To OAR
ling Johnny To Good Old
j. B. To Don Jtan Berkeley
all the props were here, with
the thoroughness of Belasco set.
ting, even to lace-trimmed
handkerchief and a small white
glove upon a table.
Dick had known j. B. since he
was a boy, when the older mans
bachelor parties in the log cabin
across the lake from the Stuy-
vesant summer home had scan.
dalized the community. Known
him and, as he grew older,
hated much about him yet
loved him through their mutual
passion for animals and the great
outdoors about which j. B. knew
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said "I'l1 tell you goodbye now,
for | probably won't see you again.
I'm getting off soon
How soon?" she demanded al
most sharply.
Dick flushed. 'Why--ah--
Sacramento" he stammered. He
was not a good liar.
Back in his compartment. he
basked in the memory OF the
meeting. The quick changes in
her face, the bright beauty of
her smile! There was a girl!
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Every Man a King

GSVXTELL now that you're here.
w forget it, boy. This towns
no place for brooding. I'll show
you some things tomorrow.
Why" his tone was exultant--
"there are eight women here to
every man every mans his own
King Solomon. Tomorrow well
go out and collect you harem
But lets turn in now, you must
be tired"
A little later, wakefully listcn.
ing to the noise of parties in
nearby rooms, Dick wondered II,
after all. J. BIS philosophy might
not be right.
Pleasure was always possible
and it was foolish to at
tempt to establish a relation.
ship with women on any
thing but a material basis. If It
didn't last. all right, swing on TO
the next experience. And the next.
And the next. There were all
sorts of women. Suddenly he
thought of the girl in the train.
She was different-steadfa he
was sure of it. And as long as he
could remember that there were
good women in the world, women
like her, clear eyed, honest, he
would cling to his ideals. j. B.
and his cynicisn were not for him.
He fell asleep at last under the
soothing influence Of a cooling
breeze-a breeze which, fortu-
nateIy, could not tell him it had
just tanned Felicia, lying troubled
and wakeful, not in the train on
the way to San Francisco. but in
the house of q friend not half a
mile away In the city Of divorce.
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low divorce seekers. No one to sit
talking to a girl like this.
Learning to Lie
HER voice broke in upon the
Ii awkward silence:
81 looked at your things-your
steamer and hotel labels
and things. We've stayed at so
many of those places
He picked up the cue she gave
him and gradually they became at
ease. They talked impersonally Of
places both had visited, of books,
of plays, yet there was an under.
current of excitement, a sense of
drawing together.
Her name, she told him, was
Felicia Brett. She was going to
San Francisco to join her father,
she said; they might make their
home there.
At the end of an hour, Dick
rose. His spirits, which had un-
accountably lightened, fell as he
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Flight by Night

That night, Dick, having bribed
the porter to. get his luggage off
quietly from the far end of the
train, hurried from the Reno sta
tion like a thief, so that Felicia
should not know. They had his
reservation the clerk at the hotel
told him, but friend of mis-, a
Mr.. John, Berkeley, had heard of
coming and wished him to share
his suite.
Mr.. Berkeley. the clerk said, had
gone to meet the train: odd they
should have missed each other,
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RA
ST did the same thing yester.
day" she told him, only you
weren't there to see me-" And
then, suddenly, as though loneli1
ness forced the words from her;
won't you sit DOWN."
Her voice trembled slightly.
For all her poise, she impressed
him as a little girl trying ito be
brave in a bewildering situation.
He sat tensely upon the seat op.
posite her. He hadn't the, right to
m a k friends. This girl, he
thought. obviously had led very
sheltered life, life protected from
the slightest taint of ugliness or
notoriety. Just a nice kid--that's
what she was. While he-a pros.
pective Reno-ite! Front page mate
rial! When the Richard Stuy.
vesants are divorced, it is news
sensationalism. A loser in the
game of marriage, he could be an
equality, for the time at least
three ugly months-on with fell
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nearly as much as any man alive.
If only, Dick reflected, J. B.
could feel toward humanity a
quarter Of the kindly sympathy
he felt for one mongrel pup, what
q good man he would be.
The door burst open. j. B.. in
a hair-striped suit and batik
necktie-the sort no man ever buys
for himself, the sort to which
j. BIS perpetual philandering
sentenced him for life-seized
Dick hy the arm and swung him
around. "WeIl, youngster, well
come to our city. So you've
made the jump at last?"
What are you doing here?"
Dick countered. trying to sound
cheerful. 81 didn't get any we'd
ding announcement
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man his
Own King
Solomon
In Reno

Constance?" asked J. B. Dick
shook his head. He couldn't teH
]. B.. or anyone else, that Con-
stance was neurotic, that every.
thing natural to him seemed re-
pugnant to her. He went on
slowly:
1T isn't that. But I feel that
coming here, getting a divorce,
is the ultimate confession OF
failure--the admission that have
been lacking in some indefinable,
essential something that would
have prevented the wreck"
J. B. nodded; he could see that.
Then he grnined.
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An Easy Philosophy

r B. chuckled. "Sit down and
- have a drink and I'll tell
you about it."
He mixed the drinks and lifted
his glass. An amiable grin lighted
his rugged face.
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live contentedly. or even COM
placently, together. And 1 de-
cided divorce offered the only
clean and honest way .Out-the
only decent solution to our prob.
lem.
Are you still in love with
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Special Suit for Fat Man

It said that six and half yards Of material
qured to suit for Emil Hoehne weighing nearly
500 pounds He believed be the the world
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What Is Kendyr2

Have ordered your suit Of kendyr yeti This the name
given plant discovered recently in large quantities
Asia and found to produce textile yarn Of high quality
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What Do You KnOw?
ANswrpS To TODAY'S TEST

For Questions. See Editorial Page
l. Oliver Goldsmith. Pompei g. Beatrice General Howe
Texas IL Rhode Island Ohio b. "Ivanhoe IA "The Gold
Bug" To- "The Call Of the Wild"
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Follow ttlls fascinating story |
Of life as it h lived ct Reno to
morrow.
Copyright. 1879, BY King Feature
Syndicate, Ine.)
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Mrs. VIM. ].
Cock Of S4oh Viz.
RiRiG Aoe., S. w.
Washington, d. C.
found is q great
trial to haVe taUO
children coughing
at Ghe same time.
Thea she foWnd
REM - and geus
sVhy she svOssldn's
Be SUithSsst e n0tV!
The Washington times., 1929-03-12

Twenty days left to file your
Personal Tax Return. Bank &C.
counts not subject to check taxable
in excess OF $500.
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GIRL WEDS MAN
SISTER QUIT

An art career went a.glimmerin'
here yesterday when a 25-year-old
Chicago society girl married her
sisters divorced husband in very
quiet Georgetown wedding.
Miss Mary Meeker, daughter Of
the wealthy Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Meeker, of Chicago, was married to
Ambrose C. Cramer, also a rich
Chicagoan, by the Rev. James p.
Marshall, in Georgetown Presby-
terian Church. Only the mother
and father of the bride were In
attendance.
Sisters Bridesmaid
Thirteen years ago Mary was
bridesmaid for her sister, Grace
Meeker, when the latter was mar.
ried to Cramer amid all the splen.
dor provided by her parents
wealth. Lolita Armour, now Mrs.
John j. Mitchell, also was among
the bridesmaids.
society, having distinguished him.
Sell Win the dIl6U drIuIeS, anu LuS
prolonged honeymoon was ended
only when he re-entered the service.
this time as lieutenant in the
[, aited States Army.
Cramer and his first wife made
their home in Paris, where he
studied architecture after Mrs.
Cramer sailed for the United States
in 1923, bringing with her the two
ca ildren, Ambrose c., now II, and
Neville, 6.
Mary An Art Student
Mary was then in Paris studying
at the Beaux Arts Academy. In
the fall of 1927, the first Mrs.
Meeker obtained a divorce on
grounds of incompatibility and is
said to reside in Santa Barbara,
Calf.
Mr.. and Mrs. Meeker and Mr..
and Mrs. Cramer, checked out of
the Mayflower Hotel yesterday
leaving no forwarding address.
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HAMMER DEATH
OF GIRL IS
SOLVED

GREEN BAY, Wis, March ~
Q.N.Sl-The famous Elkhorn Gull
vert murder case was solved yester-
day, officials said, with the confes.
sion of Robert Cone. 25, that he
had beaten a girl to death with a
hammer last June ana then stuffed
the body beneath a culvert near
Elkhorn, Wis. Cone said the girls
name was Mary Laverty, "a, and
that she lived in GAINESVILLE, Wis.
Cone has been under constant
grilling by authorities at the re-
formatory here since he was re.
II ned from California, where he
was recaptured recently after an
escape from the local reformatory.
Named Another Man
When picked up in California. he
told a weird tale Of the Elkhorn
Culvert murder and named another
man as the slayer.
Later, he repudiated his story and
was returned here. Believing he
knew something of the mystery that
has occupied the spotlight in South.
ern Wisconsin since the girls body
was found last August, authorities
continued to question him. His
confession was made last night. &C.
cording to reformatory officials.
Cone, who Is serving sentence for
q statutory charge, told authorities
that the Laverty girl demanded that
he marry her, claiming that Cone
was the father of her unborn child.
This was last May, and on June he
took the girl for an automobile ride,
stopped at a lonely spot near Elk
horn and struck her over the head
three times with hammer.
Disposed of Body
Death, he said, was instantaneous,
and he stuffed the body beneath a
culvert.
After performing an examination
on the body, which had lain in the
culvert three or four weeks, DR.. K.
L. MiIoslavich, Milwaukee pathol.
ogist, announced the girl had been
subjected to an illegal operation.
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CHILD WORKER
To BE HONORED

Plans for a memorial to the late
Dorothy Hellman Primm for her
work among children have been
completed by friends engaged in
raising funds to endow a room in
the Children's Hospital here, ac-
cording to announcement yesterday.
The fund. known as the Dorothy
Hellman Primm Memorial, is being
raised in part by. a letter sent to
persons who knew her and were
familiar with her work, commenting
on Mrs. Primm's unselfish character
and influence for good.
Officers of the endowment fund
are Edna Robinson Kerwin, presi-
dent: Gladys Strong Hellman, vice
president: Mary Walker Delano,
secretary: Edna Carr Bowyer, treas
urer: Maria Bisset Culberson, Louise
Belote Dave, Agnes Wacksmith
Getsinger, Frances Carter Reeves
and Myrtle King Werner.
The advisory board includes the
Rev. William s Abernethy, d. D.;
Mrs. Byron F. Andrews, Ephraim
p. Bowyer, Miss Anne M. Cooling,
Miss Rose Lees Hardy, Frank j.
Hogan, DIR. Harry Fl. Kerr, DIR. Lois
Meek, Walter D. Middlekauff. Mrs.
Elmer E. Rogers, Miss Alberta
Walker and Dr.. William Allen
Wilbur.
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QUICK relief FROM
CONSTIPATION

That is the joyful cry Of thou.
sands since DR.. Edwards produced
Olive Tablets, the substitute for
calomel.
DIR. Edwards, a practicing physi-
clan for 20 years and calomePs old.
time enemy, discovered the formula
for Olive Tablets while treating pa.
tients for chronic constipation and
torpid ivers.
Olive Tablets do not contain call
omel, just a healing, soothing veg.
etable laxative mixed with olive oil.
No gripping is the keynote" Of
these little sugar.coated, olive-col.
ored tablets. They cause the bowels
and liver to act normally. They
never force them to unnatural &C.
ton.
If you have a dark brown
mouth"-bad breath-a dull, tire1
feeling-sick headache-torpid liver
constipation, youn find quick.
sure and pleasant results from one
or two Of DR.. Edwards Olive Tab
let's at bedtime.
Thousands take them every night
TO keep right. Try them. 15c. soc. 6Oc.
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General Death Rate Is
Doubled Among Indians

DR.. M. C. Guthrie, Of the United
States Public Health Service and
chief marshal officer of the Bureau
Of Indian Affairs, announced yester.
day that the Indian wards Of the
nation, roughly estimated at 225. 900,
out OF a total of Indian population
Of $4,000 persons, have death rate
about twice that of the registration
area, of the United States.
The death rate from tuberculosis
is estimated at four times the rate
from the disease throughout the
country.
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NEURITIS

Guaranteed voluntary state
ment from e. III. Crooks, Camp
'26, Fort Bragg, California:
"I am on my third bottle Of
Eopa Neuritis Tablets and would
pay many times the price for
the relief I have had. My pain
is all gone and the prickly feel.
ing in my right shoulder and
arm is going also. I was nearly
a wreck when I started taking
the tablets. e. H. Crooks.
To get positive relief from
neuritis, you must reduce nerve
inflammation, the cause Of pain,
and tone up the nerves. Eopa
Neuritis Tablets did this for Mr..
Crooks and will do it for you, no
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shoulders or elsewhere. Go to
your nearest drug store today
and buy a bottle.
Guaranteed absolutely safe and
harmless. and free from heart.
depressing drugs. Always at Peo.
Piles Drug Store.
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Pain All Gone!

Mr.. Crooks would gladly pay many
times the price of EOpa Neurttis
Tablets for his relief from