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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1957)
1 lien you can't fake time out take BUFFERIN it gOOOgO'-"-';-: BUFFERIN acts twice as fast as aspirin to relieve pain Won't upset your stomach as aspirin often does When pain makes you feci that you can't possibly go on, remember this: Bufferin acts twice as fast as aspirin ... to re lieve headaches, painful cold miseries, muscular pains and other discomforts. That's because Buf ferin combines aspirin with two special antacid ingredients that speed the pain reliever into the blood stream. What's more, Bufferin won't upset your stom ach as aspirin often does. You can even take it in the large, continuous doses often needed for tem porary relief of minor arthritic pain and you'll have no ill effects afterward. Ask your doctor about faster, safer Bufferin. a product or BRISTOL MYERS It " OfT-Beat Oddities If you suffer from ttie pain of arthritis or rhaumatlsm, a tk your physician about Buffarln. by Ray Freedman TALLY HO: A Muskegon, Mich., barber lets his customers know why his shop is closed during the hunting season by placing in each chair a mounted deer's head draped with a barber's sheet. GOOD-WILL TOKENS: A Chicago merchant bought $105,885 in tickets for the movie "Around the World in 80 Days" to give to his cus tomers at the rate of 100 a performance. EXPENSIVE ALLERGY: An Air Force sergeant attached to the Lincoln, Neb., Air Base suffered from dry, cracked fingertips for eight years before the trouble was diagnosed: he's allergic to silver money. SUICIDE TOWN: Officials of Hakone, Japan, a popular spot for suicides, have asked despondent visitors to leave their names and addresses because burying unclaimed bodies costs the city $77. DIG THESE DOGS: A rock 'n' roll fan in Tulsa, Okla., advertised in his company paper: "Giveaway Genuine Elvis Presley pups. They ain't nuthin' but hound dawgs!" DARK TO LIGHT: It takes 18 minutes by automobile to get from Midnight, Miss., to Daybreak plantation, near Biloxi, Miss. PROPOSITION: An ad in the Merced, Calif., Air Base newspaper read: "Personal: Bachelor with 40 acres of top land would like to meet a lady with a tractor. Object, matrimony." ANTIQUE FANCIER: A Los Angeles woman won a divorce after testifying that her husband thought more of his 10 antique cars than he did of her. '"Perhaps you weren't antique enough," sug gested the judge. NO PRIVACY: A researcher at the Savannah River atomic materials plant near Aiken, S. C, has a team studying the living habits of grubworms with a Geiger counter. DELAYED ACTION: Some 42 years ago a Kansas farmer returned a ease of empty beer bottles to a Kansas City brewery and received a cheek for $2.18. One of the deceased farmer's kin only recently cashed the check. DEBT TO SOCIETY: A convicted forger had the happiness of his parole dampened when he learned jail officials in St. Joseph, Mo., were billing him for the food he ate during his five months' impris onment. The tab: $108.75. PRACTICAL ARMOR: A 10-year-old boy in Pueblo, Colo., stuffed his eyeglass case in his pocket a short time before he was attacked by a vicious dog. Only the dog's teeth were injured, however, because his bite came down firmly on the case. 18 Family Weekly, October 20. 1957
