Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1901 — Valuable Collections. [ARTICLE]

Valuable Collections.

The Daily Lancet tells the following story of unfailing remedies for colds, 1 all of them infallible: “Uncle Allen,” asked the caller, “do you know of anything that’s good for a cold?” Uncle Allen Sparks opened his desk, took from one of the pigeonholes a large number of newspaper clippings tied with a string, and threw it into the caller’s lap. “Do I know anything that is good for a cold?” he echoed. “My young friend, I know of six hundred and twentyseven infallible ways of curing a cold. I’ve been collecting them for fortynine years. You try these, one after the other, and if they don’t do yon any good, come back and I’ll give you one hundred and sixteen more. Bless me,” added Uncle Allen, with enthusiasm, “you can always cure a cold if you go at it rightl” He dug up a bundle of yellow, timestained clippings out of another pigeonhole, and the visitor hastily coughed himself out.