The Archive · 1940

SHE-KO FOR SORES

Eczema, itch, cold sores, pimples, ulcers, boils, piles, and other skin ailments, all re-spend favourably to the healing excellence of She-Ko, the aromatic ointment of the Dr.

Williams Medicine Company. Also for minor injuries such as cuts, scratches, abrasions, burns, scalds, She-Ko is rapidly curative. It is sold by chemists everywhere.

Antiseptic - Curative was started at about 10 Straits cents per mark, or around 2 3/4d and when they couldn't sell any more at this figure they obligingly and obser qui ously met the proposal of their victims half-way.

A friend of mine, who had just become a proud father for the first time said to me: "Well, I am going to make sure that my daughter will be a millionaires in some sort of currency. I have bought a million marks for $4,000 (about £450 stg)" Not long later he wrote to me from England that the notes made a very pretty dado in his child's nursery.

He was philosophical enough to add that it was a cheap lesson never again to trust a German in business.

It has been estimated that this barefaced swindle netted the German Government, proceeds in currencies, directly related to gold, amounting te over £1,000,000,000 standing to their credit' in London and New York.

But as Barnum once said: "There is a sucker born every minute.

LaTex.

Shanghai, Sept. 23.

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