Straits Echo, 14 December 1914
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Title Section35 1914-12-14 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL. 12. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, MONDAY, l4tn DECEMBER, 1914 Single Copy, !0 cents No. 28935 words
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Advertisement1177 1914-12-14 1 s ■■■■■—T mmaamaaaaaaama WHEN ORDERING SPECIFY “Do* Head Stout." d 0^ It is Strengthening and Invigorating, S*UAgc»U. TIANG LfcE Co., Penang d KunXa Lump ur ■IIDDDDDDIIIIIcaDQnDIIIiai nnnnnn Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang Road. Due to arrive by a steamer. One 5 Seater EMPIRE CAR AS ILLUSTRATION. BANKS landed Chartered1,177 words
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Advertisement30 1914-12-14 1 Sol* a*«l: TIANG LEE fi* CO. f Penang Kuala Luapur. 3 c; i v The Doctor advises and recommends. It is nourishing, invigorating and strengthening. Drink Dot's Held OaiftMis Most.30 words
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Advertisement26 1914-12-14 2 DRINK u m ■> s m a m >YfM as m -•> A \%?9 THE V 4 1 "J£&J 4 IS SSI *:>«* Sr-iSLJt--ON THE SOLE AGENTS; li 526 words
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Article861 1914-12-14 3 Monarchy or Rbrurlic? The National Herald (Not. 13) reporter— Suog Tu-jen, Wang Kai-yuan and others have presented a petition to President Tuan Shih-kai advocating the restoration of Imperor Hsuan Tung to the Dragon Throne. The people in Peking consider the conduct of Sung and Wang is opposed to861 words
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Article961 1914-12-14 3 It is said that Lord Kitchener is well pleased by Turkey’s declaration of war. Assuming that he has made due preparations for the protection of Egypt, it would lie strange if our War Minister were not delighted by an act of folly which clears away the961 words
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Advertisement10 1914-12-14 3 Children’a Hacking Cough at Night. Woodi’jGhraat P«PP«n»i* k O*™ 1,110 words
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Advertisement349 1914-12-14 3 nunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnr n BCOMKS HUTTENBACH B™». C o. SOLE AGENTS FOR ROYAL TYPEWRITERS Have much pleasure in announcing the arrival oi THE NEW MODEL No. 10. A a i K mu, m /IS ETi.-r.MTO» Zakf~ rr (J J tai algpfgS j 1’:. "iS 'MJI i vS3 i' 5s i'XZz.tz;V?>' m -^4349 words
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Advertisement44 1914-12-14 3 Bad T’ste in the Mouth. If you have a bad taste in your mouth in the morning, your stomach is not in proper order. Chamberlain’s Tablets regulate this and give you a relish for your meals. For 1 sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.44 words
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Article212 1914-12-14 4 S. P. Tapioca $3.85 tales M. P. Tapioca ...$l.lO sales t Gold Leaf *64 40 t Black Pepper 18. —buyers t White Pepper 30. buyers Trang Pepper 19 no stoc < Cloves 40. —tellers Mace \\o nominal Mace Pickings 85. —nominal Nutmegs 110 23 —tellers f U o# 1212 words
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Article232 1914-12-14 4 Penang, December 14 Beef cts Soup per catty 20 Roast it 30 Steaks 30 Stew or Curry Meat 22 Rump Steak 30 Ox Tail each 50 Tongue 55 Feet 20 Heart >• 50 Liver per catty 43 Pork— Pork per catty 36 Pig’s Head... 22 Feet .w 26232 words
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Article335 1914-12-14 4 Tmb St. Vincent of this War. The changes at the Admiralty following j the resignation of Prince Louis of Battenberg are of the most significant kind, says the Nation, Lord Fisher becomes First Sea Lord, Sir P rev Scott has been summoned for special hrvice,’ and335 words
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Article565 1914-12-14 4 The nation owes grateful and gratified acknowledgments to M. Stephan Pichon for the extremely handsome tribute he has piid to our country —its statesmen and its soldiers —in the columns of a widely-read Paris newspaper. M. Pichon is a journalist who has passed from journalism to politics,565 words
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Article119 1914-12-14 4 Penang, Decembee 14 (By lourtesy of the Chartered Bank.) j London, Demand Bank 2 4 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4J 3 Credit 2/4* M 3 Documentary 2/5 Calcmtta, Demand Bank Rs. 174* 3 days’ sight Private 177 Bombay, Demand Bank Moulmeiu. Demand Hank 173 3 days’ sight Private I[6119 words
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Article304 1914-12-14 4 Lois of Seat and Salary on Enlisting. London, Nov. 13. It seems that the 170 odd members of Parliament who have joined the Army, and some of whom are fighting at the front (one at least. Captain O’Neill, has lost his life), have forfeited their seats in the304 words
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Article228 1914-12-14 4 The Cocos Islands, where the Emden has concluded her exploits, from the temporary home of a continually changing group of exiles—the local staff of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company. The men are almost totally cut off from civilisation when stationed there, and it is the custom for228 words
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Article302 1914-12-14 4 "Kultur in Poland. Professor Pares, the daily historian of the doings of the Russian Army, tells a tale of German methods as displayed at Szidlewice. The invading commander undertook to spare the beautiful Town Hall and the famous old Gothic church if the inhabitants paid him five thousand crowns. The302 words
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Advertisement78 1914-12-14 4 TRANSLATION. UNDERSIGNED undertakes to 1 translate any document from English into Chinese aud vice versa. Also Chinese accounts into English. Fees according to the following scale:— (1) For translations for insertion in the Strait» Echo or the Penang Sin Poe or to be printed by the Jobbing Department of the78 words
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Advertisement57 1914-12-14 4 Unnece sary Words. Why wa s te words and advertising space in describing the many points of meiit in Chamberla n’s Cough Remedy The most fastidious are satisfied when we state that it cures colds aud coughs from any cause, and that it contains absolutely no narcotics or injurious substanoes.57 words
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Advertisement316 1914-12-14 4 Grand X’mas Bazaar. NOW IN FULL SWING TO CHEER THE HEART i OF YOU G AND OLD. Tons of fully l’den Claus Stock n.s, Bon-Bons, Tom Smiih’s Crackers, Tabic and X mas ree Decorations, Toys, fife., &c., to choose from. Ca es, Biscuits Fancy Boxed and Plain Chocolates. Nuts, French316 words
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Advertisement144 1914-12-14 4 A Germ Destroyer. There is no danger whatever from lock jaw or blood poison resulting from a wound when Chamberlain’s t’ain Balm is promptly applied. It is an antiseptic and destroys the germs which cause these diseases. It also causes wounds to heal without maturation and in one-third the time144 words
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Advertisement312 1914-12-14 4 iCCDOCDCCDO: DR. S. P. SSNG, nr\ITIQT 155. CARNARVON STREET, UILN lld I 9 CORNER OF CARNARVON LANE. CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK. BEST WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEED CHARGES REASONABLE. OCO GO TO s THE CRITERION PRESS, iiUVIITED, 59, BEACH STREET, PENANG, FOR GOOD PRINTING 9‘ AND ANYTHING IN STATIONERY. Telephone No. 545. Telegrams312 words
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Article437 1914-12-14 5 Holding Back Niwi Singapore would appear to have been t treated in a very cavalier fashion in regard to the news of the Naval Victory in the Atlantic. That much at least may be gathered from an indignant article in the &'traits Timet which says At noon437 words
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Article196 1914-12-14 5 It is notified that, by an Order of His Majesty the Kmg in Council bearing date the twenty-eighth day of November, 1914, the Rules and Orders made in pursuance of the Prize Courts Act 1894 on the fifth day of August, 1914, and proclaimed in this196 words
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Article337 1914-12-14 5 The following new books have been received at the Library Men Around the Kaiser, The Makers of Modern Germanv, by Frederic \V. Wile. Why We Are at War, Great Britain’s Case, by Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History. Oddsfish, by Robert Hugh Benson.337 words
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Article992 1914-12-14 5 Indian and Ceylonese Action. At the instance of Messrs P. K. Nambvar, H. G. Sarwar and T. Isaac Tambyah, a meeting of the representatives of the Indians and Ceylonese in PenaDg was convened on Saturdav afternoon at the Chinese Town Hall. The object of the meeting was992 words
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Advertisement329 1914-12-14 5 < Ui in a ui O' u Ui (L in Ui m z < z < X o 3 ffi o </) -i < h> kj Sole Agents PENANG AND KEDAH. Buchanans /'As* SCOTCH WHISKY MCKfigSSf x V\ X -=__r scotch JAMES BUCHWWI* OlAS<X> W ‘SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT” BLACK&WHITE329 words
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Advertisement396 1914-12-14 5 Packed in 50s 25s Tins. Obtainable Everywhere. 1 f O. Hotel. -:o:« SPECIAL TIFFIN EVERY WEDNESDAY SATURDAY. cc ALLEN DENNYS CO.. Penang, RUBBER BROKERS, PROPRIETORS OF THE PENANG RUBBER AUCTION ROOMS. SALES HELD EVERY TUESDAY RUBBER bought or sold by PUBLIC AUCTION or PRIVATE TENDER. FORWARD SALES ARRANGED. RUBBER transhipped396 words
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Article, Illustration90 1914-12-14 6 fnbliahed daily (except Sundays and peblir holidays) AT Til CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang, nice. Daily Local »24 per annum t Outstation... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) »17.50 CABLB ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Noe. (Echo, 586 Printing Departnent 343 ff ,g— All bull***. <*>njmunie*tio»«90 words
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Article1343 1914-12-14 6 Mr. 11. W. Firmstone, lately Acting Commissioner of Trade and Customs in the F.M.8., who left for Europe on vacation leave last week, is, we understand, the last Government servant in the Native States who will be allowed to go in these conditions till the end1,343 words
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Article880 1914-12-14 6 Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Duncan, of Chenderiaug, are on a visit to Penang Mr R. N. Holmes, of Messes. R. T. Reid and Co., hopes to go home early next year and join the New Army. i Captain P. Boyce, Adjutant, Penang Volunteers, and Staff Officer, Troops,880 words
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Article1066 1914-12-14 6 From officiil quarters we have received au intimation asking us to note that instructions have beeu received that you should not mention names of Prilish war vessels engaged or supposed to be engaged anywhere unless such are included in Press Bureau Bulletins.” We feared that we were letting1,066 words
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Advertisement132 1914-12-14 6 Presents in endless variety. Give toyst your boys that are just the r >rt Lh y w nt Whe i Ch istmas mor. i r comes they will be deligfMed to fi id the r wish s realised. Come tc-tiay and bring the children to look round, KENC CO., si132 words
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Article547 1914-12-14 7 (Reuter's Servic*.) Copyright T«Wraiil. THE SOUTH ATLANTIC VICTORY. Poor Comfort for the Grrmnns. London, December 12 The German Press laments the loss of the cruisers in the South Atlintic battle but takes comfort in tho skill they displayed during four months of activity without suffering any loss Received547 words
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Article600 1914-12-14 7 (Reuters Servce) Copyright Telegram. Capture of Vermeilcs. Boulogue, December 12. 1 lie capture of Vermellas is importaut as if threatens the Gerrnau communications aud the main road to Lens and Labassee Another Cathedral Destroyed. 1 It is reported that Soissons Cathedral has t been destroyed by German600 words
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Article603 1914-12-14 7 THE KAISER HIS GENERALS. Reuter's Special War Service.] Copyright Telegram. Why Von Moltke was removed. Amsterdam, December 13. The Handehblad learns that the change in the post of Chief of the German General Staff was due to a difference of opinion between the Kaiser and General Von Moltke. The latter603 words
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Article602 1914-12-14 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. REVEIVED 13TH OF Dec. AT 7 P.M. RUSSIAN SUC ESS. Petrograd, December 11. g Au official announcement states :In the I Mlava region a vigorous German offensive took place on Thursday but was repulsed, j the Russians pursuing the enemy’s columns which at602 words
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Article262 1914-12-14 7 RECEIVED 13TH OF DEC. AT 12 A.M. GENERAL BARNARDISTON AT TOKYO. Manifotations of Sympathy. Tokyo, December 13. Brigadier-General Barnardiston, who commanded the British troops at Tsingtau, arrived yesterday at Tokyo where he was received by the highest military and other officials His welcome exceeded that even of262 words
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Article105 1914-12-14 7 The following articles will be found on our outside pages Page 3. —China’s Future. Egypt and the Turk. 4. —Changes at the Admiralty. Our Immutable Ends. “Kuitur" in Poland. M P.s’ Sacrifices. The Cocos Islands. 5. —The Naval Victory New Books at the Library. New Prize Court Rule. Relief105 words
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Article279 1914-12-14 7 Another Marauder Captured. We hear on good authority that another of the German marauders from which some trouble might have been expected in these waters has been captured by a British vessel whose name we are not at liberty to divulge. Another German-manned vessel is, however, still279 words
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Article469 1914-12-14 7 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. The adjourned Annual General Meeting of the members of the above club was held this morning at No. 14. Beach Street. There were present: Mrs Liston (President) Mrs. Hart, Mrs. Hilton, Mrs. Johnson, Miss Mathieu, Mrs. Webb and Mrs WrightMotion (Hon. Secy and469 words
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Article285 1914-12-14 7 We understand that the Penaug Volunteers will be de-mobilised from to-morrow. At the meeting of the Chinese Literary Association, which was held yesteiday, the following office bearers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Lim Kong Bang; Vice President, Khor Ah Wee Hon. Secretary, Ng Fook Mow Asst285 words
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Advertisement125 1914-12-14 7 GOVERNMENT OF KEDAH. Auction Sale of Village Lots at Semiling Railway Station. Forty five village lots near the Railway Station at Semiling will be put up by the Land Offi.-o f or Auction Sale at Semiling Railway Station on Saiurday, the 9th January,' 1915, at an up et price of125 words
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Article971 1914-12-14 8 The gradual coming together of men to form village communities and the inevitable growth of some of these into townships is Isi ways accompanied by a certain amount of moral wastage, a wastage out of which arises most of the difficult social problems ever presenting themselves971 words
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57 1914-12-14 8 We are informed that from to-day the following additional codes will be sanctioned for use, subject to regulations similar to those governing the codes already available (1) Meyer’s Atlantic Cotton Code, 39th Edition. (2) Bentley’s Complete Phrase Code, not including mining and oil supplements. (3) Broomball'e Imperial57 words
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144 1914-12-14 8 Hitherto German shipping has enjoyed the almost unstinting patronage of British subjects. Her steamships on the eastern and Australian runs particularly have been freely used by British people both for cargo and passenger purposes, and tbe substantial dividends paid by the North German Llovd and144 words
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21 1914-12-14 8 Dec 11 By Balance $37,364,19 12 Heah Swee Lee 10,000.00 Balance Dec 12 ...$47,*****21 words
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Article400 1914-12-14 8 Dec. 11 By Balance $1,400.46 12 C bet tv Community by Major de Hamel... 2,00.00 Dr Cecil, F. Nicholas 50.00 M. Hellier 10 00 Balance Dec. 12. $1,660 46 Amount previously acknowledged 4,266 66 Total $5,927.12 Loaf sugar in Kuala Lumpur has gone up from 55 to400 words
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Article1400 1914-12-14 8 We (Strait t Times are to tome extent, i perhaps, responsible for the decision to, 1 deduct 20 per cent, from open subscriptions to the Prince of Wales’ War Reliet Fund in order to meet local distress caused by the < war. It seemed to1,400 words
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Article721 1914-12-14 8 A bill is to be introduced into the Legislative Council on the subject of the registration of deeds. The objects and reasons state This bill consolidates ten ordinances and at the same time amends a few of the provisions of these ordinances. The chief amendment provides that721 words
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Advertisement504 1914-12-14 8 To-night! To-night!! Clement-Holt Empire Entertainers, America's Foremost Duettista, Pantomimista and Sketch Artists Attbactiow Extbaobdihabt Mitt Irene Delmar In her Famous Turkish Harem Dancos, Miss Florence Mayden In her Famous Garter Dance. Roars! Shrieks I Screams Mil M. H. Kenyon Slade-The man Iwho made Bombay laugh 120 nights. Slicker —The Yankee504 words
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Advertisement117 1914-12-14 8 Just before the battle, mother, T was thinking most of you, Wondering whether you were taking What I told you for the flu.” But I know that you will never Fail to take that fine Renewer, Which has put new life in thousands— Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Central Sales Room117 words
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Advertisement658 1914-12-14 8 NOTICE IN THE ESTATE OF NAI THYE. Deceased. Pursuant to the Conveyancing and Law of Property Ordinance. 1886, Section 46, Notice is hereby given that an creditors and other persons haring any claims and demands against the estate of Nai Thye late of Bangkok, Siam, deceased who died on or658 words
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Article1142 1914-12-14 9 Bt Geo. R Sims. To seek the sou! of gooduess in things 'evil has been the UDbU task of poets and divines, philosophers and philanthropists for ages past. War is in itself a thing so evil that the civilised world looks upon, it with horror.1,142 words
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Article602 1914-12-14 9 Few will dispute that both the Government and the banking community are entitled to the praise bestowed upon them by Lord Incheape in his presidential address to the Institute of Bankers. The Govern- meat, in consultation with representative bankers, took prompt and effective steps to save us602 words
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Article316 1914-12-14 9 Appaling Figures. The terrible official figures of Prussian casualties which have just reached us via Copenhagen will startle the Englishman almost as much as the German. Even with the vast bulk of the October fighting aud the whole of the November battles omitted, the total of killed316 words
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Advertisement864 1914-12-14 9 for SAIjBL NOTICE C?uide to Penang LABOUR CODE. 1912, F.M.S Indian Immigration Fund Ordinance 1911. BT THE LATE E F. bkcrtchiy, f. e. s. Price -50 cents. V Worth a Dollar copy.") SOLD AT “STRAITS ECHO” OFFICE. Employers of Indian laboue are hereby reminded that assessment returns for the preceding864 words
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Advertisement50 1914-12-14 9 The Children's Colds. W itch tho children’s colds and cure them before they weaken the vitality. Use Chamber lain’s Cough Komody freely. It is perfectly safe. It has been tested bv chemists and pronounced tree from injurious substances and costs but a trifle. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.50 words
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Advertisement497 1914-12-14 9 73 Debility TRON ‘JELLOIDS, the reliable tonic, strengthen 1 your blood and fortify your system against climatic effects. After a course of Iron Jelloids,’ the blood is enriched, appetite is restored, vitality increased, Weakness and Debility disappear, and your system is enabled to combat attacks of Malaria and other diseases.497 words
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486 1914-12-14 10 (UNDER S. R. A. RULES OF RACING.) RACE D AY S FIRST DAY Thursday, 7th January, 1915. SECOND DAY Saturday, 9th January, 1915. FIRST DAY. Thursday, 7th January, 1915. 1. The Opening Stakes. Value #500. A Handicap for all Horses to be entered at486 words
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Article1622 1914-12-14 10 Horace Hvtchinsov - Bt Horace Hvtchinsov. Just before tbe outbreak of the war certain moral philosopher* were occupying part of their learned leisure, which seemed spacious, in discussing the effects on the ethical nature of man of the game of golf. The ball was set to roll1,622 words
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Article595 1914-12-14 10 Gbrhart Hauptmann’s Plea. The German novelist, Gerhart Haupty maun, makes this defence of Germany in the Fatherland. B “We are an exceedin2ly peaceful people. The superficial fenilletoniste Bergson in a Paris may call us Barbirians,’ the great a poet and blindfolded Gallomaniac Maeterlinck, too, may apply595 words
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Advertisement513 1914-12-14 10 Entries Close at 5 p iu on Tuesday, 29th December, 1914-. Handicaps for the First Day will be published on or before the 2nd January, 191***. A penalty of 7 lbs. incurred in a Handicap by the winner of any Race ruD subsequent. to the publication of the weights and513 words
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Advertisement600 1914-12-14 10 '4-S M Ovaroosns by Ebe Wosderful Blood Purifying Properties of Sr. MeaGE’S INDIAN EGGT PILLS. A person suffering from eruptions of the skin has much to endure. It is not merely the discomfiture ar.d irritation and painful sensation, but life is M made miserable by depression of spirits. The lives600 words
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Article427 1914-12-14 11 Wweri wi Hate the Upper Hand. With the possible exception of neutrals, the trade and industry of Great Britain has suffered less shock than any country in Europe, and our economic position is incomparably stronger and firmer than that of Geramny,” says the Daily Citizen. “Of course,427 words
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Article482 1914-12-14 11 America has no doubt that the reasons for this war are to be found in German j greed for other people’s colonies» in German economic difficulties at home, in German lust of domination and vanity of race,” says Mr. A. E. W. Mason in the Daily482 words
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Advertisement313 1914-12-14 11 For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Is. 6d U I I+ lMf -it I t >-v S .r x tttti > 43 r-jB T ;;I -V' V''* 111 II t i, lv H i f v<" i n\ Qj! I 0 b r’c j P VssrJ u&-\ I313 words
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Advertisement441 1914-12-14 11 HOTEL NORMAN, PENANG’S SELECT RESIDENTIAL HOTEL COLD STORAGE FOOD, Special Terms to Government Officials and F.M.S. Visitors. A Specialty is made of the TABLE D’HOTE at $1 in t' e large dining room or $l-25 in private rooms. The Proprietor invite 3 comparison with any Hotel in the Ea«t or441 words
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