Ohinemuri Regional History Journal 41, September 1997
YEARS AGO:
A wonderful new medicine, Beecham's Pills, are universally admitted to be worth a guinea a box for bilious and nervous disorders, such as wind and pain in the stomach, sick headache, giddiness, fullness and swelling in the stomach after eating, dizziness and drowsiness, colds and chills, flashes of heat, loss of appetite, shortness of breath, costiveness , scurvy and red or dark blotches on the skin, disturbed sleep, frightful dreams, backache and other "incurable" omens, pain and complaints suffered on occasion by women, listlessness and all other nervous and trembling sensations. The first dose of these remarkable Beecham's Pills will give relief in 20 minutes. Every sufferer is earnestly invited to try one of these boxes of Pills.