Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1892 — Noble Spelling. [ARTICLE]

Noble Spelling.

Many a man has been sorry that he ever put himself into the power of a dealer in patent medicine. A recent example is furnished by a member of the British nobility. The Duke of , out of feelings of gratitude, we may assume, gave a testimonial to the proprietors of a patent cure for snoring, and they, naturally enough, circulated a lithographed copy of the letter by way of advertisement The result is that everybody is asking where the duke went to school. And the duke, we are told, recognizing the fact that the word “effcaccious” has a strange look in print, has vowed never to pen another testimonial without a dictionary at his elbow. .