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The Washington times., 1931-09-22
CYCLONE KILLS
I IN WEST;
. END HEAT
Heavy Damage Is Suffered in
Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma,
: Wisconsin; Two FIierS Die

KANSAS CITY, Sept. %
AINSO Death and damage in
Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma
was dealt late yesterday and last
night by wind and lightning
accompanying a heavy rainfall
which broke the September heat
wave.
Damage totaling $4,000 was
done by a tornado at Columbia,
Mo-, home of the State uni
Yersity.
Lieut.. Chauncey G. Ycoman
and Lieut.. Philip P. Brennan,
National Guard filters of St.
Louis, were killed four miles east
of Fulton, Mo-, when their plane
crashed into a clump of trees.
=. Two persons were killed and
several injured by a windstorm
in Labette and Cherokee counties,
Kan. Three men were killed by
lightning in Oklahoma.
GAINESVILLE. Wis, Sept. %
.1ISSD.-One known dead and
Rn.A thousands of dollars worth
N property damage constituted
The toll today of a cyclone which
struck Rock county, Wis, last
night. The wind swept over an
area of 80 square miles,
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
LOCOMOBlLE

LoCoMoBILE. 1926 Limousine, painted a
dark blue. equipped with 4-wheel brakes
for quick sale $225. terms.
WAKEFIELD MOTOR COMPANY
1130 Conn. Ave. n. W. Dec. S14O
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JORDAN

JORDAN 1929 De Luxe Sedan. perfect,
trunk, wire wheels $685.. Simmons
Motor Co.. 1919 14th St N. W. n. 1922.
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Automobiles
WWNO~OO~~
CADILLAC

CADILLAC AND ROLLS ROYCE-Both
5-pass. de luxe models; beautltul condl'
ton and rare bargains. Col. 28OO.
CADILLAC 7-pass. Sedan, 1926. will make
a good family car and in excellent con-
dition. A real buy at $445, terms.
WAKEFIELD MOTOR COMPANY
1130 Conn. Ave. N. W. Dec. 3llO
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HUPMOBlLE

HUPMOBILE 1928 4-door Sedan, finished
blue duco. black tenders. new tires all
around. motor perfect. Car has had ex.
cellent care and is Al throughout. See
it today. $495. trade and terms.
H, B. LEARY. JR.. BROS, o.
1921 14th St. N. W. North 1895
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DODGE

DODGE LATEST 1928 SENIOR 8 CLUB
COUPE, custom built type has had best
of care by private owner: at sacrifice,
$3.50 Adams 1927.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19

5-ROOM and bath tile bungalow. on JEFF
ferson Ave. Arlington. Has acre
of ground, electricity. gas, hot-water heat.
attic, garage. fruit trees, shrubbery:
grapes. Priced reasonably. with small
down payment and balance on terms.
GEORGE H. RUCKER CO.,
Clarendon, Va. Clarendon 1877.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
WILIYS.KNI(iHT
WILLS ST. CLAIRE

wILLs.sT. CLAIR SPORT ROADSTER
Gray Goose special 6-cylinder. All new
Goodyear balloon tires. rumble seat and all
extras. This car Just like new: Just out
of storage. Must sacrifice this high-grade
car S375. Mr.. Roper, any time before
q. M I'LL 18th St N W,
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
Automobiles (l35)
PIERCE ARROW

PIERCE ARROW Limousine. color blue,
equipped with two spare tires mounted
In rear of car. This car is mechanically
and otherwise in excellent condition and
a bargain at 1878,
WAKEFIELD MOTOR COMPANY
1130 Conn. Ave, n. W. Dec. 3110
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PONTIAC

PONTIAC Coach, 1927. fine condition;
reasonable. Dick Murphy. Inc. 604 H
St. N. E. Line. 033i
The Washington times., 1931-03-19

cow MANURE-very rich, well rotted, no
straw; 5 bu So 1.-TWO dollars): 13 bu;.
So tive 6 pdf Ss9d af9er fGr rose beds
A. WELLS. IS P St. N. E.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE

GOOD USED CARS-Northeast Motor Co.,
920 Bladensburg Rd N. E. Atl, 0200.
BARGAINS IN USED CARS
Lee D Butler. Inc 21S5 ChamplaIn st NV.
REAL BUYS IN USED CARS
Lustine-Nicholson Motor Co. Hyatts. Nd.
GOOD USED CARS
NOLAN MOTOR CO I'LL 18th st W.
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NASE

NASH 1929 LIGHT ''6'' SEDAF@ciPertect
STANLEY H. HORNER
1O16-1111 14th St. N. W.
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NEAR CLARENDON, VA.
home, good condition, on hard-surfaced
road: convenient to transportation, schools
and stores: property fenced: fine place
for children. S6s5O. $500 cash. S55 per
P. W. SHARPE CO..
Phone Clar 2212 Clarendon, Va.
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MOON

custom-built type. a beautiful car. in
wonderful condition: q real bargain. $500
NOLAN MOTOR CO., I'LL 18th St. N. W
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REQ

REQ Coupe. 1929, with ruml le seat. This
car is excellent throughout, looks like
new. Just the car you will want this sum-
mer. Priced reasonable. Dick Murphy,
Inc. 604 st. N. f. Line. 0337..
REQ WORD OF HONOR USED CARS
DICK MURPHY. INC. 1924 Kal Rd NV
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Want - Miscellaneous

FURNITURE bought and sold: good prices
paid. Margolius 800 9Th NV Met. 0533
letters of Presidents,
statesmen: documents: stamp coils. old
coins bought. Hobby Shop. 1927 F. Di:1272
AM IN IMMEDIATE NEED Of quantity
OF good. substantial used furniture. Can
pay cash Metropolitan 3051.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
statesmen WANTED

MAN WANTED
For Rawleigh City Route of 800 Families
in Washington. Reliable hustler can start
earning S35 weekly and increase rapidly.
Write Immediately. Rawleigh Co., Dept.
DC-A-6-V. Chester. Pa.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-18
< . .22gSsssaA@ -
T &~S>->-sAssS&sssss
lN1X ~
H1W Ohe y
AANmsania9 of
NV christmas
v bu WorEho Baantnq TGenaS
. bpchortha Booming ThomaS

UPPOSE for instance that
you were walking along
a country lane at night.
That it was very cold
and frosty, that the snow
creaked under your feet,
and the twigs on the bare
trees SnanDed when the
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-18

lISeS Shdppeu NucH Tue
wind touched them.
You are thinking of nothing but
getting home to warm fire and
good supper. when suddenly a new
light pours down from the sky.
You stop and look up. This light is
soft and golden; many cOlors grow
and dissolve in it. You stand
transfiXed.
You hear voices, a whole choir of
them. Angelic and sweet the mu-
sic floods the night. Gradually you
discern floating figures lifted on
great and shining wings. The voices
swell to a rich crescendO and go
ringing on through the world-"For
Christ the Lord is born! p
The light fades. The music dies
away. You are left alone in a
country lane. 1t is dark and cold.
But the familiar lane takes on a
different aspect. 1t is leading you
not home but to low stone build
ing. There are voices within. You
hear many people moving about.
Without realizing the direction your
feet are taking you find yourself
stepping over the low threshold of
a stable. You advance, finding
yourself confronted by a scene of
great simplicity. A mother and her
child, a manger. the big eyes of cat
tie glowing IN the shadows The
glory that was in the skies a lit
tie while ago seems centered above
the baby's head.
How would you feel? What would
you do? When the vision faded.
would you ever again forget the
beauty and meaning of Christmas?
(6). 1881. Western Newspaper 'Tnlonl
~ p 900 ~
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-18
AForest Christmas
IT By Arthur Guiterman
Ice In Mirhful Lyre

NEEP in the heart Of the timber
O lands
The Christmas fir Of the woodfolk
stands.
Bright with the glitter the Frost
King loans
Toits rich green tassels and its dark
6rown cones.
Andthewoodfolk through the
drifted snow
For their uuletide gifts that are
heaped below:
Bark for the beauer. sprouts for the
hare,
Golden honey for The drowsg bear,
Moss for the doe and the antlered
buck.
Dildwood apples for the graz
woodchuck.
Nuts for the chipmunk, haDs for the
grouse.
And alder fruit for the white~foot
mouse.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-18
THAT HOLIDAY
FEELING

NUST before Christmas
they all felt so tired.
They had been busy doing so
much-shOpping, keeping up
with work that had to be
done, making puddings and
pies, cranberry jelly.
Oh, there was so much for
every one to do around
Christmas time.
Every one was busy with
something or Other-rushing
TO get everything finished in
time.
And every one felt tired.
But just as Christmas ap-
preached it seemed that new
strength entered into each
one. 1t was the beautiful
holiday feeling, the feeling of
joy and gayety, of thankful
ness for friends, of thankful
ness for home, of rejoicing
for families.
The tired feeling drew
away into the background. In
its place came the holiday
, feeling-the feeling Of good
will to all, of peace and of
cOntentment over the lasting
possessions belonging TO
mankind-the possessions on
which one could never put a
. price.
That holiday feeling brought
all that was good into the
, foreground.
No one would have missed
it for anything in the world.
Mary Graham Bonner.
! e. 1881. Western Newspaper Union.
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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-08

Tracing time and it's changes back
to the very beginning of things, Sir
James Jeans of Cambridge gives, in
recently published work, wonderful
picture Of the birth of our solar sys-
tenn as the result of a collision some
2,OO0,000,OOO years ago.
"a second star, wandering blindly
through space, happened to come with
in hailing distance Of the sun. Just as
the sun and moon raise tides on the
earth, so this second star must have
raised tides on the surface of the
sun huge tidal wave must have
travelled over the surface of the sun,
ultimately forming mountain of pro-
digious height, which would rise even
higher and higher as the cause of the
disturbance came nearer and nearer.
And, before the second star began to
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-08
Owl in Squirrel Nest

The long-eared owl is of medium
size with extremely long ear tufts.
They live throughout temperate North
America and breed south to Virginia,
Arkansas, northern Texas and south
ern California, spend the winter in
most of their range and south to Gen.
trail Mexico. The nest, says Nature
Magazine, may be that of some large
bird or squirrel, carelessly repaired !;
it is usually in a dense growth of ever
green trees and placed from ten to
twenty feet up. They are very bene-
fetal, for their food consists largely
of meadow mice and other small man.
mails, insects, spiders, crayfish, small
snakes; frogs, snails and earthworms
are known to be taken as we'll
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-08

erantly. Many of them were rich now,
counting their riches not in thousands
but in millions. They had owned a
piece of Oklahoma dirt, or piece of
piece of dirt-and suddenly, through
no act of theirs, it was worth it's
weight in diamonds. Pat Leary, the
pugnacious little Irish lawyer who had
once been section hand in the early
days of the building of the Santa Fe
road, was now so rich through his vast
oil holdings that his Indian wife,
Crook Nose, was considered quaint
and picturesque note by the wives of
eastern operators who came down on
oil business.
After the first shrill excitement of
it Sabra Cravat relinquished the hope
of making sudden millions as other
luckier ones had DONE Her land had
yielded no oil; she owned no oil leases.
1t was curious fact that Sabra still
queened it in Usage and had actually
become "a power in the state. The
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-08
BOW L S
need watching

Let DR.. Caldwell help whenever your
child is feverish or upset; or has
caught cold.
His simple prescription will make
that bilious, headachy, cross boy or
girl comfortable, happy, we'll in just
a few hours. It soon restores the
bowels to healthy regularity. It helps
breakup a cold by keeping the
bowels free from all that sickening
mucus waste.
You haze famous doctors word
for this ldrdtipe. DR.. Caldwell's record
of having attended over $500 births
without loss of one mother or baby
is believed unique in American
medical history.
Get bottle of DR.. Caldwell's
Syrup Pepsin from your drugstore
and have it ready. Then you won't
have to worry when any member of
your family is headachy, bilious.
gassy OF constipated. Syrup Pepsin
is good for all ages. 1t sweetens the
bowels; increases appetite makes
digestion more complete.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-08

Marcy and head-held-high in spite Of
bum of husband"
Donna Cravat, If you ever again
dare to speak like that of your father
1 shall punish you, big as you are"
"Sabra darling, how can you punish
a grown woman? You might slap me,
and / wouldn't slap you back, Of
course. But I'd be terribly embar-
raised for you. AS for father-he is
a museum piece You know it,"
your father is one of the greatest
figures the Southwest has ever pro-
duced."
MN. Well, he's picturesque enough,
suppose. But wish he hadn't
worked so hard at it. And Gin |!
There's brother A great help to
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-08
"When You Take That Down, sabra,
Honey, You'll Be the Editor Of
This Newspaper"

paper was read, respected, and feared
throughout the Southwest. It was
said with pride by Osage's civic mind
ed that no oil was rich enough to stain
the pages Of the Oklahoma Wigwam.
Though few realized 1t, and though
Sabra herself never admitted it, it was
Yancey who had made this true. He
neglected it for years together, but he
always turned up in crisis, whether
political, economic, or social, to hurl
his barbed editorials at the heads of
the offenders, to sting with the poison
of his ridicule. He championed the
Indians, he denounced the oil kings,
he laughed at the money grabbers,
he exposed the land thieves. He was
afraid of nothing. He would absent
himself for six months. The Wigwam
would run along smoothly, placidly.
He would return, torch in hand, and
again set fire to the paper until the
town, the county, the state were
ablaze. The Osages came to him with
their legal problems, and he advised
them soundly and took a minimum fee.
He seemed always to sense an i'm
portant happening from affair and to
emerge, growing like an old lion, from
his hidden jungle lair, broken, NANCY,
but fighting, the fine eyes still alight,
the magnificent head still as menacing
as that of buffalo charging. He had,
on one occasion, come back just in
time to learn of Dixie Lees death.
Dixie had struck oil and had re-
tired, rich woman. She had closed
her house and gone to Oklahoma City,
and there she bought house in de-
cent neighborhood and adopted baby
girl. She had gone to Kansas City
for it, and though she had engaged
capable and somewhat bewildered
nurse on that trip, Dixie herself car
ried the child home in her arms, its
head close against the expensive satin
bosom.
No one knew what she had used to
pull the wool over the eyes OF the
Kansas City authorities. She never
could have done it in Oklahoma. She
had had the child almost year when
the women of Usage got wind Of 1t.
They say she took it out herself in its
perambulator daily, and perhaps some
one recognized her on the street,
though she looked like any plump and
respectable matron now, in her rich,
quiet dress and her pince nez, little
gray showing in the black abundant
hair.
Sabra Cravat heard Of it. Mrs.
Wyatt. Mrs. Doc Nisbett. Mrs. Pack.
They took the child away from her
by law. Six months later Dixie Lee
died; the sentimental said of broken
heart. It was Yancey Cravat who
wrote her obituary:
"Dixie Lee, for years one of the
most prominent citizens Of Usage and
a pioneer in the early days Of Okla
homa, having made the Run in 'S9, one
of the few women who had the cour-
age to enter that historic and terrible
race, is dead.
"She was murdered by the good
women of Usage. :"
The story was nine-days' wonder
even in that melodramatic STATE
Sabra read It, white faced. The .circu.
lation of the Wigwam took another
bound upward
tTo BE coNT1NuEp1
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-08
CHAPTER xII-Continued

Mrs. Wyatt, palmer, more horse
faced than ever in her expensive New
York clothes, tried to patronize Sabra
Cravat, but the Whipple blood was no
match for the Marcy. The new money
affected Mrs. Wyatt queerly. She be-
came nervous, full of spleen, and the
eastern doctors spoke to her Of high
blood pressure.
Sabra frankly envied these lucky
ones. A letter from the adder-tongued
Felice Venable to her daughter was
characteristic of that awesome old
matriarch. Sabra still dreaded to open
her mothers letters. They always
contained sting.
"All this talk of oil and millions
and every one in Oklahoma rolling in
1t. III be bound that you and that
husband of yours haven't so much as
enough to fill lamp. Trust Yancey
Crayat to get hold Of the wrong piece
of land. Well, at least you can't be
disappointed. 1t has been like that
from the day you married him, though
you can't say your mother didn't warn
you. I hope Donna will show more
sense"
Donna, home after two years at Miss
Dignum's on the Hudson, seemed in
deed to be a granddaughter after
Felice Venable's own heart. She was,
In coloring, contour, manner, and out
afb y1oJ,
girls-Czarina Mckee, Gazelle Slaugh-
ter, Jewel Riggs, Maurine Turket-as
to make that tortured, wind-deviled day
Of her birth on the Oklahoma prairie
almost nineteen years age seem i'm
possible. Even during her homecom-
lngs in the summer vacations she had
about her an air of cool disdain to-
gether with a kind of disillusioned
calculation very disconcerting to her
former intimates, not to speak of her
own family.
The other girls living in Usage and
Oklahoma City and Guthrie and Wa
hoo were true products of the new
raw Southwest country. They liked
to dress in crude high colors--glaring
pinks cerise, yellow, red, vivid orange,
magenta. They made up naively with
white powder and big daubs of car
mine on either cheek. The daughters
Of more wealthy parents drove their
own cars in day when this was con-
sidered rather daring for a woman.
Donna came home tall, thin to the
point Of scrawniness in their opinion
sallow, unrouged, drawing, mysterious.
She talked with an eastern accent, ig-
nored the letter r, said eyether and
nyether and rih'ally and altogether
made herself poisonously unpopular
with the girls and undeniably stirring
to the boys. She paid very little heed
to the clumsy attentions Of the Okla
homa hometown lads, adopting toward
them q serpent-of-the-Nile attitude
very battling to these frank and open
faced prairie products.
Her school days finished, and she a
finished product of those days. she
now looked about her coolly, calculat-
ingly. Her mother she regarded with
kind Of affectionate amusement.
''Wnat a rotten deal you've had,
Sabra DEAR" she would drawl. "Rih'al-
ly, don't see how you've stood it all
these years."
Sabra would come to her own de-
tense, goaded by something strangely
hostile in herself toward this remote,
disdainful offspring. "Stood what?"
"Oh-you know. This being a
pioneer woman and a professional
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-08

Coles Carbolisalve Quickly RelieveA
and heals burning, itching and tortur-
ing skin diseases 1t instantly stops
the pain of burns. Heals without scars.
soc and soc. Ask your druggist, or send
Doc to The J. w. Cole Co., Rockford, ILL.,,
Tor a package.-Advertis
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-08

Interesting Picture of Birth of Solar System

recede, It's tidal pull had become so
powerful that this mountain was torn
to pieces and threw off small frag-
wave throws off spray. These small
fragments have been circulating
around their parent sun ever since
They are the planets, great and small,
of which our earth is one"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-08
Concealment

Figures won't lie" said the
mathematician.
mo-" replied Senator Sorghum;
although a pretty good way to con-
ceal the truth is to bury it under
big bunch Of statistics"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-08
Poodle's Human Trait

"A poodle dog" said Hi Ho the sage
of Chinatown, "has traits that are
very human. He barks at strangers
because he Is sure his friends are DOW.
erful enough to protect him. Wash.
ington Star.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-08
From War to Commerce

Two former United States navy
destroyers, the Worden 2S7 and the
Putnam 2SS, built to run down sub
marines, will be used to carry ba-
nanas from Central America to New
Orleans. They have been bought by
fruit company.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-08
"We can't use that, I tell you"

We Seeh use IAeAes SC1A yOu.
"Why not?"
"This isn't the Cimarron. It's the
state of Oklahoma. That's treason
that's anarchy"
Its the truth. It's history. I can
prove it. They'll be down on those
Osages like pack of wolves At least
I'll let them know they're expected.
I'll run the story, by Cd, as want it
run, and they can shoot me for it."
"And say you won't. You can't
come in here like that. I'm editor Of
this paper"
He turned quietly and looked at her,
the great head jutting out, the eyes
like steel. 'Who is?"
II am"
Without a word he grasped her
wrist and led her out, across the old
porch, down the steps and into the
street. There, on Pawhuska avenue,
in the full glare of MONDAY, he point
ed to the weather-worn sign that he
himself, aided by Jesse Hickey, had
hung there almost twenty years be-
FORE She had had it painted and re-
painted. She had had 1t repaired.
She had never replaced it with an
other l
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-08
DR.. w. B. CALpwElLs
SYRUP PEPSIN
AD0ctorS Family Lafatiue
Defined

A man who has two wives is a
bigamist. A woman who has one
husband is a monologist.- Florida
Times Union.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-08
Uncle Eben

s Uncle Eben
"Some men," said Uncle Eben,
fuses up all DER patience an for.
bearance hangin' around an waitin'
fob another circus to come to town.
Washington Stal.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-08
In Character

Photographer-How do you want
this picture of yourself as North
west policeman?
Tourist-Mounted.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-08
MercoIiz ed Wax
Keeps Skin Young

Get an and use as directed Fine particles of aged
skin peel off until all defects such pimples liver
spots tan and feckes disappear. Skin is then soft
and velvety Your looks younger Mercolzed
Wax brings out the hidden beauty of your skin. To
remove wrinkles use ounce Powdered Saxolite
dissolved in oneha pint witch hazel At drug stores
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-08
Not Wealthy

"They always have two cooks"
eyes, one coming and one going
Boston Herald.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-08
REsTFUL SLEEP
for FRETFULx
FEvERIsH CHILD
With Cosforio's regulation


When your child losses and cries
out in his sleep, it means he is not
comfortable. Very often the trouble
Is that poisonous waste matter is not
being carried off as it should be.
Bowels need help-mild, gentle help
but effective. Just the kind Cas-
toria gives. Castoria is a pure vege-
table preparation made specially for
children's ailments. It contains no
harsh, harmful drugs no narcotics.
Don't let your child's rest-and your
own-be interrupted. A prompt dose
Of Castoria will urge stubborn little
bowels to act. Then relaxed comfort
and restful sleepl Genuine Castoria
ALWAYS has the name: