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BILLINGS, CLAPP & CO.

PROPRIETORS OF

NICHOLS' BARK AND IRON,

THE GREAT AND ONLY

NATURAL TONIC AND INVIGORATOR.

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"BETHESDA."

A large number of persons in the United States are suffering from diseases, the majority of which may be greatly relieved by a change of climate, in combination with the use of some simple and pure tonic. That the number of afflicted ones is far more numerous than in former times must be apparent to the most superficial observer.

In this country, all positions of influence and distinction — social, political, and religious — are open to all who can win them by their own merits.

Hence, every man and woman has a motive for thinking, planning, working, and striving, at all times, to attain the highest positions in the community.

We ever work, wrestle, and struggle for theses distinctions and positions, until the nervous system is deranged and shattered to such an extent that all the physical functions with which it is connected — the secretions, digestion, and circulation — are impaired and deranged; and life, day and night, becomes a continuous misery.

The dwellers and workers in our large cities have for years carried this increasing burden, living under peculiar and overwhelming disadvantages, like an imperfect instrument, out of tune; a boat rowed against the wind and tide, progressing fairly to-day, — to-morrow,

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