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                    <salute>Mrs. Joe Person</salute>
                    <salute>Dear Madam:</salute>
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                <p>Enclosed you will find a clipping of your remedy from the News &amp; Observer.  My wife has a hard lump under her right breast something like a tumor.  Hers pains her at times, especially when she exerts herself much.  If you feel your remedy can remove her lump please let me hear from you and your terms.  I have been 
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                    thinking of sending her to Richmond, but much prefer it being carried away without the use of the knife.  Please let me hear from you and kindly oblige.
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