Straits Echo, 24 December 1914

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  • 36 1 Straits Echo WHY CHRONIfIE OF IVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL. 12. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, THURSDAY, 24 th DECEMBER, 1914 Single Copy, 10 cents No. 298
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    • 27 1 'jmlttir.q .9 “O O «9 331 ONVIX »i°s 3 L; The Doctor advises and recommends. It is n< uri-hing, invigorating and strengthening. Drink Dot’s Heiii G'jwaess itwt.
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  • 615 3 Sir Robert Chalmers, Governor of Ceylon would not seem to bo making himself or bis government particularly popular during the war. The local press is full of caustic comments on his attitude towards the volunteers and the alien enemies and acid criticisms of his policy of fallacious
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  • 193 3 The Elleeman Hali- Lines Uf*n A* Aoenct. In our leader to day, says last Saturday s Straits Times, we make reference to au important development in iocal shipping Messrs. McAlister and Co. having been, appointed agents for the Ellermau Hall j Lines which propose to start a new
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  • 740 3 OuR HoHRIfZOLLRRR Prisohrr. I dare i»j the fact of Dotn Manuel s brother in law being a lieutenant in the Edmen must come as a revelation to the hntish public. It vas expected at Sigmaringen that under the Kaiser’s patronage and aa a descendant of Henry the
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  • 188 3 According? to the report of the captain of H M S. Glasgow on the naval fight in the Pacific, the German ships jammed the wireless message sent by Admiral Cradock telling the Canopus that he was about to attack the enemy As yet we do not know whether
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    • 315 3 Huttenbach Bros. 8 COMPANY. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS CN OTR ACTORS. SOLE AGENTS FOR: All kinds of ELECTRICAL MACHINERY. A* ■■HWMMMHBBanBMBBBHHHHB JtLwJL. JZ&Z&iZzS&Z.' Free Estimates Given for all Kinds of Electrical Work. Mining Plants and Private Lighting Installations A Speciality. AGENTS FOR: HE STERLING TELEPHONE C0. r LIE. Large Stocks of Telephones
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    • 47 3 The Children’s Colds. Watch the children's colds and cure them before they weaken the vitality Use Chamberlain’s Crush Remedy fieely. It is perfectly safe. It has tested by chemists and pronounced free from injurious substances and costs but a trifle. For sale bv ell Dispensaries and Dealers
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  • 203 4 8. P. Tapioca $3.85 tale» M. P. Tapioca ...$4.10 sal** Gold Le&t ...$64 40 Black Pepper 18.— buyert White Pepper 30. buyers Trang Pepper 19 no ttoc Cloves if).—teller» Mace 110 nominal. Mace Pickings 85- —nominal Nutmegs 110 23— teller (No. 1 6.10 tale» Sugar 5 2 5.50 tale»
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  • 230 4 Penang, December 24. Beek cts. Soup per catty 20 Roast 30 Steaks 30 Stew or Curry Meat 22 Rump StBak 30 Ox Tail each 50 Tongue 55 Feet 20 Heart 50 Liver per catty 40 Pork— Pork per catty 36 Pig’s Head 22 Feet 26 Tongue 40 Mutton
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  • 1120 4 AN INGENIOUS RUSE. Wasted German Literature. The following notes have been received by a Loudon pap-*r from an observer who has beeu serving with the Indian Army Corps iu France since its inclusion in the lighting lice: November 20, 1914. Siuce the lad notes were
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  • 561 4 British Control of Supplies. London, November 24. Tbe urgent demand for rubber for German military requirements may be gauged by the tfforts that have been made to obtain it through devious channels. For a time, it is believed, some of these succeeded. British merchants unwittingly may
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  • 356 4 I Masonic Demonstration. r I R »m 9, November 22. 7 1 The Costanzi Theatre was overflowing (this morning for a lecture entitled “The I Situation,” by Signor Ernesto Nathan, I former Syndic of Rome. In view of the I notoriety of the speaker tbe event
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    • 82 4 TRANSLATION. r piiE UNDERSIGNED undertakes to JL translate any document from English into Chinese and vice versa. Also Chinese Accounts into English. Fees according to the following 6cale:— (1) lor translations for insertion in the Straits Echo or the Penang Sin Poe or to be priuted by the Jobbing Department
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    • 11 4 For Children’s Hacking Cough at Night, Woods’,Great Peppermint Cnre Is. 6d,
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    • 540 4 i TBS —1 IBeechwn’s Pills, they we just the thing as a family medicine. Nothing to be compwed with them has yet been put before the public. For over half a century this medicine has been an easy First Favourite in countless households and the name and I fame of
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    • 31 4 17 ROM the 1st October, 1914, COMJD POUND HOU6E, No 63, Northam Road, lately m the occupation of Capt. S. R Perkins. For particulars apply to 17-9-14 579 KENNEDY A Oo
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    • 265 4 &?££*> ,;J V/EAXNESS Neurasthenia “'aiaS CONSUMPTION CHLOROSIS Use HEMOGLOBIN Deschfens Pt^r s Far oetter than uncooked meat, Chalybeates. etc. Iy )0C=)0O0C30CD0CD0CZD0CD0CZ>0CD0C30C30C30C (Frt r r\ P'c DR. S. P. SENG, *55. CARNARVON STREET, 9 CORNER OF CARNARVON LANE. CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK. BEST WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEED CHARGES REASONABLE. HIE CRITERION PRESS, Ed
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  • 1079 5 [Hr Tom Wright] Hainan Nature in Pulitica,” by Graham Wallas, is a book that has helped to take my mind off mere war-talk. Politics as popularly understood, party politics, is a subject I have discarded- It doesn’t help to make up a scientific full-hand. Human uatuie, on the
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  • 639 5 Niabino the End. There are now but two important events of which the results have not yet penetrated to our shores, the Derby Cup and the November Handicap, both of which have frequently resulted in the utter defeat of the intrepid punter and likely enough have done
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  • 241 5 F M S. People fob the Front. Quite a number of F M.S people are going Home by this mail, or early next month, says Tuesday’s Mal y Mail Mr. L. A. Rusack, of the Straits Trading Company, goes on leave to-day. H« will probably receive a commission
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    • 312 5 < u CO a u Q£ u ui 0- to < z < u CD o i/> -i [JUCHANANS SCOTCH WHISKY 50 ‘SOMETHING to CROW ABOUT” V BIACK&WHITC :=1- ScotchWhis^-^ JAMES otASOOW*»- 1 ft* BLACK WHITE ALWAYS THE HIGHEST QUALITY ft ‘TJ 70 O no > r D m >
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    • 456 5 I o\ S A A O «P Packed in 50s 25s Tins. Obtainable Everywhere. TURKEYS GEESE Orders are now being booked for delivery about 25th inst. SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE COMPANY. LIMITED, PENANG. i elcphone No. 602. Telegram!: STORAGE. THE PROPRIETOR AND MANAGEMENT OF THE STRAITS CINEMA, Penang Road. Speciality: Latest
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  • 95 6 Piblished daily (except Sundays and public holidays) AT THI CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. .Talc*. Daily Local $24 per annum. Outstation... Postage Extra. Kail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLI ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 t? B. —All bu.in... cprmminiction. .honld
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  • 2116 6 It has been very properly laid down that f fh® Censorship has a double function. Its business is to ensure that no assistance is given to the enemy through the publication of news, and to help in maintaining the courage of the nation.” The same may
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  • 958 6 A curiously double meaning accompanies the Christmas card, which in its modern meaning is scarcely more than half acenturv old. For even to-day many people who play cards at no other time, think it no evil to play them at Christmas. Unconsciously they are following the law enacted
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    • 121 6 PRITCHARD 8 Co. ROVER CYCLES. OF ALL DISINFECTANTS, THE BEST ZOTAL A burqoynes MISCIBLE disinfecting fluid-g _T** MO *f POWERFUL <5 fluid •«DFtCTAKT IN A miin i v 'T'*"**— Mp« mciM 4 WATI» PLEASANT TO Us •URCOYNE. BURBIDCES 4 CMMR Strnti 10«D0" 1 FOR OFFICE AND HOUSEHOLD USE AND ESTATE
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  • 258 7 [Reuter’s Special War Service.] Copyright Telegram. RECEIVED 23RD OF DEC. AT 6-20 P.M. INTERVIEW WITH THE CHANCELLOR. COST OF THE CAMPAIGN. London, December 23. Mr. David Lloyd Georgo, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has granted an interview to a newspaper representative on the subject of the war.
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  • 287 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram RECEIVED 23RD OF DEC.AT 6-45 P.M. DESPERATE FIGHTING REPORTED. London,'- December 23, 4.10 a m. An official communique issued in Petro•rad states that there was desperate fighting on December 21 between the Lower Vistu a and the River Pilica. The German attacks were
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  • 510 7 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. RECEIVED 23RD OF DEC. AT 4-30 P.M. PROGRESS OF THE ALLIES. London, December 22, 1-30 a m. The official communique issued in Paris last evening says To the north of Puissaleine and south of Noyon'the enemy on Monday evening made violent counter-attacks. All
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  • 41 7 Received ia Audience. (Reuter.) London, December 23. His Majesty the King gave an audience Mr. Alfred Sre, the new Minister for ,he Chinese Republic at the Court of St. James, and Mr. Lew Yuk Lin. the outgo,ng Minister
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  • 512 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. RECEIVED 23RD OF DEC. AT 6-45 P.M. POST FOR ADMIRAL CALLACHAN. London, December 23, 5 15 a.m. Admiral Sir George Callaghau has been appointed Commander-in-Chief at tho Nore in succession to Admiral Poore The Times commenting on the appointment states that the fact
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  • 43 7 Dec. 22 By Balance t 20.79 23 Amount subscribed on board S. S. Pin Seng” 50.00 Pritchard Co. Weighing Machine 12.29 W. R. Armstrong 50.00 Mrs Stephen Anthony 25 00 Balance Dec. 23. 158.08 Amount previously acknowledged 6,613.33 Total $6,771.41
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  • 123 7 The following articles will be found, on our outside pages Page 3,—An Unpopular Governor. Singapore Shipping. Von Muller’s Lieutenant. Jamming Wireless* 4 —lndian Troops at the Front An Ingenious Ruse. Italy and the War. German Demand for Rubber. s.—Marginal Notes By Tom Wright Tbe English Turf. Homeward Bound. B—Debook
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  • 885 7 THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF PENANG. The local Golf Championship has been an unusually interesting sp >r!ing event. It has once more illustrated the impossibility of anaccurato forecast of the event, and the proverbial uucert linty of the game. Few people would have predicted that neither Mr. D. A. M.
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  • 47 7 Dec. 22 By Balance „.$51,666 50 23 K 50 00 Pritchard Co, Weighing Machine 10 21 The Warren, 2nd contribution 12.00 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Heim 50.00 O. Moulusa Maiican 30.00 Mrs. Stephen Anthony 25 00 Balance Dec 23 ...$51,842.71
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  • 445 7 SECOND PROSECUTION FAILS. Mr J. Heim, attorney of Messrs. Hu* A Co, appeared before the District Judge, this morning in response to a summons issued against Messrs. Hug Co., for being in possession of daggers without a licence from the Licensing Officer anl dealing in daggers
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    • 189 7 The Children’s Colds. Watch the children’s colds and cure them before they weaken the vitality. Use Chamberlain’s Couejh Remedy freely. It is perfectly safe. It has been tested by chemists and pronouuced free from injurious substances and costs but a trifle. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers GOVERNMENT OF
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    • 264 7 horse; FOOD The best horses must have the best food. Don't insult and injure them by giving inferior substitutes. This food is good value for your money. Penang Cycle emporium, 12. KING STREET. CH~ CPEAT EASTERN LIFE' ASSURANCE CO., LTD. U cad Okficb:—SINGAPORE. Life Assurance and Endowment in All Forms.
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  • 582 8 A Satisfactory Year. Tbe report aud statement of account* of the above Company for tbe year ?1, which were presented at the Annual G arr.rl M eting held at Rmgwood, Renoag, on November 6, show a very satisfactory state of affairs On the diiectorate are Messrs Edward T
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  • 112 8 Christmas Dat. < a.ui .Holy Coimnuuiou 8a m. Holy Commuuion—Tamil Ser vice 10 a.m. Mitins (Choral) and Chora] Celebration of the Holy Com munion Procession Hymn 59 O come all ye faithful Venite. Hopkins Pealm XLV. Pye Te Deuin. lJadcliffe and Marsh Beuedictus Barnby H\mn 60.
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  • 1480 8 EUROPEAN CONVICTED. The hearing of the case against John Spittle, who was charged with cheating in respect of $lBO 25, the property of Mr R. j N Brunei Norman, pioprietor <f Hotel} ■‘Orman and the B'dega, was commenced yesterday afternoon in the Second Gouit, before M<\
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  • 110 8 Two days ago a number of Chinese eutered a house at Rasa belonging to a Chiuamau, and demanded money and other property. They were attacked by the occupants and one of the robbers is said to have been mortally wounded. The rest cf them managed
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  • 52 8 German Press Comment. London, December 12. The German Press laments the losses of the cruisers in the recent naval engagement in the South Atlantic, but takes comfort iD the 8 kill they displayed for four months without basses. Both sons of Admiral Count von Spee were|aboard the
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  • 1127 8 IMPRESSIONS OF THE FOE. Their Pride in the Case. (By an Anglo-Indian in the Tnnes.) One would not have recognised the tired, war-wore crew who came in theotber day in a hail of pelting sleet. Most of them were sitting up in their beds chatting and
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    • 355 8 IN AID OF THE Belgian Relief Fund. E. 8 0. HOTEL. X’mas Eve Dinner THURSDAY, 24th DEC 1914. DANCING. TOWN BAND AND E. 8 0. ORCHESTRA. DINNER $3. 50 per cent, of the net profits on the Dinner and Drinks will be handed to the above fund. NO CHITS. Latest
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    • 71 8 Whooping Cough. Wb«n our child has whooping cough be careful to keep the cough loose and expectoration easy by giving Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as may be required This remedy will also liquify the tough mucus aud make it easier to expectorate. It has been used successfully in many epidemics, and
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    • 85 8 Unnecessary Words. Why waste words and advertising space m describing the many points of merit in Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy The most fastidious are satisfied when we state that it cures colds and coughs from any cause, and that it contains absolutely no narcotics or injurious substances. For sale by all
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    • 466 8 MUNICIPAL NOTICE. APPLICATIONS will be received by the undersigned for the following appointments I. Cashier Abattoirs and Pigmarket at a commencing salary of $720 per annum rising by biennial inciements of $6O to $B4O per annum. A security of $5OO in cash will be required. A knowledge of Cantonese is
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  • 629 9 PLAYING THE ENEMY’S GAME What the Natt Has Done iHy A Naval Correspondent Last week little information trickled in from the oceans, which must not be interpreted to mean that little was stirring at sea Never for a moment are matters quiet either in home or
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  • 263 9 Calcutta, December 12. The Statesman's London Cable states A remarkable aud significant editorial in the Berliner Tageblatt strongly condemns the re •eut pronouncements of German University Piofessors who have boasted of the coming ronquest of London and the annexation of t- rntory from the Allies
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  • 509 9 j RESTRICTIONS ON LIBERTY OF CIVILIANS. The Possibility or Famine a I A high official of the Belgian Govern- inent, who reached London from Ostend during mail week, gave to a representative r of The some account of life in that t town under German rule.
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  • 415 9 A Prayer for Peace. Rome, November 16. The Pope has published the Encyclical, already announced, urging the belligerents to make peace. The Eueyclical begins by pointing to the dreadful results of the present war, and conjures rulers aud peoples to eud the fratricidal struggle and to
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    • 809 9 for S^LBl. NOTICE. Guide to Penang, by the late E F. Skertchly,, 1 .1. s LABOUR CODE, 1912, F.M.S Indian Immigration Fund Ordinance 1911.’ Price 50 cents, i" Worth a Dollar a copy SOLD AT STRAITS ECHO OFFICE. OF INDIAN LABOUR are hereby reminded that assessment returns for the preceding
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    • 65 9 A Germ Des f reyer. There is no danger whatever from lock jaw or blood poison resulting from a wound when hambetlain s r*aiu 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
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    • 47 9 Tbe bells niiv ring the Old Year out, Or ring tbe New Year in; Men will nuke tows to maidens fair, And promise to begin A new career iu every way, And make tbeir lives secure, By taking for their own health's sake Wood*’ Great Peppermint Cure»
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    • 580 9 HI As a healing tonic and restorative after fevers Angier’s Emulsion is ==3 invaluable. It soothes and he ils the mucous n embrane of the stomach and gjg intestines, corrects digesti e an l bowel irregularities, promotes normal g healthy apatite, and gre itly improves as..imitation and nutrition. At the
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  • 576 10 What Germany Will Hate to Pat. Mr. Chamberlain acknowledges, rery frankly, that during the last three months he has changed his opinion as to meeting the cost of war by borrowing or by new taxation, but he does not tell us why. There is one
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  • 427 10 [To the Editor of the Times of Ceylon Sir, In view of the exhortations to patriotism which appear daily in your columns and of the various articles which you have published advocating the capture of the trade of our alien enemies, it is somewhat suprisiug to see that considerable
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  • 503 10 I t (UNDER S. R. A. RULES OF RACING.) R A C E D AY S FIRST DAY Thursday, 7th January, 1915. j SECOND DAY Saturday, 9th January, 1915. J FIRST DAY. > Thursday, 7th January, 1915. I 1. The Opening Stakes. r Value
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  • 1172 10 SYMPATHY WITH THE ALLIES. Thk Rial Issue at Stake. (By Pkofemob Gboroe TRUMBULL Ladd, of Yale University.) There can be no doubt, I think, mat the great body of the American people heartily approve of the difficult efforts of President Wilson and the Government at
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    • 482 10 Entries Close T ,v e 29th December wi*. Handicaps f 0r the .X rst b 0 published on or before the 2nd January. 191S. A penalty of 7 lbs. incurred in a Handicap by the winner of any Race run subsequent to the publication of the weights and of 12
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    • 436 10 J. C. ALLAN, Engineer 8 Contractor, F.M.S. Railway Bui 1 dings, Penang begs to inform Contractors, Planters and Miners that he has taken over the Agency of Chop EWE LEONG HO. TIMBER MERCHATNS 8 SAW MILLERS. Works. Kota, Kuala Muda. Depot: Bridge Street. LARGE STOCKS CARRIED OF Chenghai, Merbau 8
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  • 386 11 "■“S" l ho Command f We decided, and, thank, to the meat of the Emperor. Moltke'a order, “d I directions went out as Eoval Pnm! T W.ajwaj, imagined trooble in the Main Headquarter, if “*“7 w nt to war, and especially if 8 h« tried to fight
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  • 546 11 fir» u nOM F THI Morning Post. Oin,-Bef ore Captain Muller, of the SSjVs i Btreated «8 a hero, the public 'IZnTVt* factB to the Lnn of the JkemtcKug at Penang. The inrnr *7“,“ the Pn B “««Kre and um.jsteut The first story was that the
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    • 149 11 Bad Taste in the Mouth. If you have a bad taste iu your mouth in the morning, your stomach is not in proper order. Chamberlain’s Tablets regulate this and give you a relish for yo ir meals. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers. m n m m m* r:
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    • 10 11 For Chiomc Clmst Complaints, Wood»' (iipiAt IV'f.pwunmt Curfl. Is 6<l
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    • 145 11 HOTEL NORMAN. PENANG'S SELECT RESIDENTIAL HOTEL. ENGLISH PROPRIETORSHIP. LARGE AIRY LOOMS FACING THE SEA. COLD STORAGE FOOD. Under tbe patronage of H.M. Judges, Medical Officers, Colonial Secretaries, Magistrates, Consuls, etc. Terms:-MODERATE Special rates to Offi itl*, Planters and F M S. V The New Bar and Bil iard Room is
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    • 106 11 To GOODRICH TYRES r sSe "s w. r* fc-5 2>2 ass «77 M w w- V* .w WW -lt 'E3 :-j JVA. V WK w v> v *> > H w \A Ow-J :s3i &r*i «m 9E -*t v* r J Zi SSwEaSm* »V «5« ?c >^3sBsi3S«3:si k¥m~iĔM m i*
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