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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 December 1939Vol. X, No. 5

Backache

pp. 67-68 · Read in the full issue

Happy Relief

From Painful

Caused by Tired Kidneys

Many of those gnawing, nagging, painful backaches people blame on colds or strains are often caused by tired kidneys—and can be relieved when treated in the right way.

The kidneys are one of Nature's chief ways of taking acids and wastes out of the blood. \ healthy person should pass about 3 pints a day and so get rid of more than 3 pounds of waste matter.

If the 15 miles of lidney tubes and filters don’t work well, this poisonous waste stays in the body. It may start nagging backaches, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting up nights lumbago, swollen feet and ankles, puffin ess under the eyes, rheumatic pains and dizziness Don’t let it lay you up.

Ask your chemist for DOAN’S BACKACHE KIDNEY PILLS . . . used successfully the world over by millions of people. They give quick relief and will help to flush out the 15 miles of kidney tubes. So be sure you get

Doan's Backache Kidney Pills.

salesman, and then he became a notable figure on Sydney race-courses, where he brought off coup after coup, and became notorious as “the Bull-fighter”. Next, he crashed into Sydney business, mostly as promoter of and trader in companies which specialised in money-lending— Scottish Loan was one such. He was of fensively ostentatious —he gave his wife a birthday party at Hotel Australia, which was reported to cost £l,OOO, and he built a magnificent home at Gordon, which cost over £40,000; and he wallowed in the publicity which the flapper press

gave these things. Because of his ap parent flair for making money, he was able to get on to the boards of his com panies people with well known names.

When he left for Europe, one hop ahead of the police—-he actually was overtaken and arrested in Bombay, but escaped— these people were left to carry his finan cial babies. He changed his name by deed poll to Woolcott Forbes several years ago: it is said that he selected the names from two streets, well known in Kings Cross, Sydney.