Straits Echo, 31 December 1914

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS. THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR BAST GENERALLY. VOL. 12. $24 Per Annum PENANG, THURSDAY, 31st DECEMBER, 1914. Single Copy, 10 cents No. 303
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    • 1111 1 WHIM ORDERING SPECIFY **D°f Head Stout.” 3 A X 9g S’ V re Sllw ini *®»i|oraliM, S.U A,...., TIANG LEE G> Co Psuoug A Kwila Lumpur ■■■■nnnnDnußßUßnnnnnDJi,... nnnann Georgetown Motor Garage 7\ Penang Road. Due to arrive by a steamer. One 5 Seater EMPIRE CAR -< BANKS Just Landed Chartered
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    • 27 1 Sol« Axenf TIANG LEE CO. Prnang Kuala Lumpur. •,*> mi o 7 The Doctor advisee and recommends. It is nourishing, invigorsting and strengthening. Iriik kef's Hud Guinness SImI.
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  • 310 3 There is a report iu the Japanese newspapers relating to the compulsory suspension of football matches in Great Britain. Toe news received is somewhat vagu«, but appears to be to the effect that the Government has ordered the suspension of all football matches for which gate money
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  • 438 3 Not A Nobleman. General von Kluck is a fine officer, tall, thin, aud truly Latin in aspect, except for his spike helmet and his tooth-brush moustache, says a Dutch military officer interviewed by an English paper. He owes his rank neither to noble birth nor to intrigue.
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  • 954 3  -  Bv Frank K. Hbath. What i9 the genesis of the uiusket F The name doe9 not help us much. We are told it is derived from the Italian moschetto,’ tparrowhawk,” through the Fiench uiousquet, aud possibly iu its early stages it was used to avenge the death
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    • 65 3 Whoopi ft* Cooih. When jour child has “oo" 0 end be careful to keep ing Chamberlain expectoration easy by g rea uired. This Cough Remedy as may^tough mucus and remedy will also liq ul jt has been make it easier to expec and as used successfully in P o tber
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    • 277 3 n n d n n 0 0 0 «3daauauaanaaM*Mnnnnnnn*iM JAVA AUSTRALIA LINE OF THE KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPY. Regular inouthlj service of the FAST, MAGNIFICENT »teamera: TASMAN and HOU TMAN 6,000 tons i weeß j ava ports and Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne via Thursday Island and IVr Moresby (Papua), leaving Sourabaya and
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    • 44 3 Bad Tute in the Mouth. Tf you have a bid taste in your mouth in the momine, your stomach is not in proper order. Chamberlain’* Tablets regulate this and Rive you a relish for yo' r meals. For ■ale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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  • 198 4 8. P. Tapioca $3.85 tellers M. P. Tapioca ...$l.OO tales Gold Leal $64.40 Black Pepper 18.— buyers White Pepper 29. buyers Trang Pepper 19 no sloe Cloves 41. sales Mace 110 nominal Mace Pickings 85. —nominal Nutmegs 110 23 —nominal No. 1 6.10 sales 3ugar < 2 5.50 sales
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  • 232 4 Penang, December 31. Beef cts. Soup per catty 20 Roast 30 Steakß 30 Stew or Curry Meat 22 Rump Steak 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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  • 1237 4 Italy and the Balkans While the other Great Powers are at war Italy has a great opportunity for an act of statesmanship. There is evidence from Italian sources of the rise and spread of what seem to us true and large views concerning Italy’s relations with
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  • 661 4 The. German Jingo Professor. Maoy Englishmen who know little of Germany, reading the newspapers lately, no doubt have asked themselves or one another Who is this Treitscbke Messrs. Jarrdd and Sons and Messrs Allen and Unwin jointly have this week tried to supply the answer in a
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    • 82 4 TRANSLATION. r |'HE UN DKKSIUNED undertakes to X. translate any document from English into Chinese and vice versa. Also Chinese accounts into Englisn. Fees according to the following scale: (1) For translations for insertion in the Straits Echo or tho Penang Sin Poe or to lie printed by the Jobbing
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    • 267 4 mmm feMfl 91 i Vv m The Ideal Mineral Water. Tansan Ginger Ale. Tansan Lemonade May be obtained from ALL THE LEADING STJRIS. Sole Age&la R. T. REID ft Co., Penang. WARNING. All persons are cautioned against making unauthorised use of Reuter's Service of News, and any person or persons
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    • 55 4 There s a land that bears a well-known name, Though it is but a little spot, Its men have fought for freedom’s cause, It will never be forgot. There's something else on the scroll of fame luat wili for all time endure, As long as ever the world goes round,
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    • 213 4 OBVIATE SMOKE AND FUMES. Electric Light is so beautiful, convenient and economical that it is difficult to understand how there can be any country or town house not fitted with it. The cost of installing same is ridiculously low, and in use is less troublesome and more economical than oil
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  • 2018 5  -  Bt Tom Weight. The writer begs indulgence for the reference to L »rd Roberts, which was wiitien before his death It is impossible to thi k of an apt substitute Before the war, a phrase like the Quintessence of Nietzsche a as enough to make
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  • 101 5 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce has received the following letter Sir, —I am directed to inform vou that application for shipment of rubber from Singapore to France direct should be made to Q which will be acceded sbou’d ir be tree from objection but shipment to
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    • 284 5 < UJ </) Q 111 Q£ U U Q. CO CO < X u m n-t. O «/> Ruchanan s *\/W SCOTCH WHISKY 3«^ <sSVf 5SS> BLACK &WHITE SCOTCH WHISKY s m C°Lruchakan& lop<o oN s fames GLASGOW SOMETHING to CROW ABOUT BLACK WHITE ALWAYS THE HIGHEST QUALITY M to
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    • 512 5 A A O Packed in 50s 25s Tins. Obtainable Everywhere. ktsnt >t )OC I aiTtzra DO I MODERN ART PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO. Amateurs’ Work Developed and Printed. EXPERTS SENT for OUT-DOOR PHOTOCRAPHY. Mahogany and Oak Frames a Speciality. ADDRESS: 21, Penang Road. Telephone 579. To-morrow Night! 1st January, 1915. To-morrow Night!
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  • 93 6 Published daily (except Sundays and publio holidays) ▲T THB CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. raics. Daily Local $24 per annum. Outstation... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Poat Free) $17.50 CABLB ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 580 Printing Department 343 KB. —All bu*in«** ocnnißunicatioß» »honW b*
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  • 1249 6 Punctilious persons might properly take exception to the phraseology of the American Note to Great Britain on the subject of the Allies’ interference with neutral trade which has formed the principal item of news in the cables yester-lay and this morning. The employment of such expressions as
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  • 873 6 Sir Arthur and Lady Evelyn Young have sent a contribution of 1-500 to the Belgium Relief Fund in Singapore. Mr. James Sellar, of the legal firm of Wreford and Thornton, is expected back about the end of February. Mr. Thomas Fox, Editor of the Times of Malaya,
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  • 354 6 THE COLONY’S CONTRIBUTION We understand that as the result of persistent enquiries the Colonial Secretary has stated that it is not the intention of the Government, when reporting to the Secretary of State for the Colonies or reraitiug to England the sum of 10,000 voted
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  • 468 6 Traffic troubles again, aud all because a few of our traffic regulators appear to have but a very hazy notion of the traffic regulations they are asked to enforce. These misguided people confuse the letter of the law with the spirit. They make arrests—and sometimes secure convictions,
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  • 82 6 ,We are asked to state that in conformity with the direction of His Majesty the King for holding a day of Intercession throughout the Empire, prayers will be offered in all the Mohammedan mosques within the Municipal limits of Penang, on behalf of the Cause
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    • 137 6 PRITCHARD 8 Co. ROVER CYCLES. BRITISH AND BEST. IcedEau deCologne Instantly relieves Headaches. For all Pains, Neuralgia Rheumatism. Mr. Quah Beng Kee says:—*‘I have found your Iced Eau de Cologne not only very good for Headache, but also very beneficial in the case of a cold. A few drops sprinkled
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  • 193 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. RECEIVED 31ST OF DEC. AT 8 A.M FRENCH GAINS. London, December 30, 3-30 a m. l.ast night s Paris official communique states that nothing important occurred during the day. [Reuter’s Special War Service.] Copyright Telegram. Received 31st of Dec. at 10-40 am The
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  • 482 7 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. RECEIVED 31ST OF DEC. AT 8 A.M. MORE RUSSIAN SUCCESSES. London, December 29,11-5 p.m. An official communique issued in St. Petersburg announces various small successes against the Germans in Poland, with the capture of a number of machine guns, and a great success
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  • 358 7 (Neuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. RECEIVED 31ST OF DEC AT 8 A.M. PRESIDENT S EXPLANATION. Vicwa of the Pro*. Washington, December 30. Yieferring to the American Note to Great Britain on the subject of neutrals’ trade President Wilson intimates that the Government could deal confidentially with the matter
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  • 101 7 The following articles will be found on our outside pages Page 3. —Football and War. Musket and Rifle. General von Kluck. 4. —Neutrals and the War. Who Was Treitschke F 5. Nietzsche and the Average Ass. Rubber Shipments to France. B,—Rubber Meeting. Freemasonry in Singapore. Nestle Milk Co. vs.
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  • 101 7 The Onoda Cement Co. has lately drawn ud a contract for the eiport of cement amounting to 5.000 tons to Java, and the 14th December saw its shipment by 2,000 tons bv the s.s. Bsnieo. The remaining 3 000 tons will be shipped by next spring, the
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  • 257 7 JUDGMENT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, December 30. The Chief Justice, Mr. L. M. Woodward, delivered judgment in the Supreme Court yesterday in the action brought by the East Asiatic Company for damages against Guan Kit A Co. According to the statement of claim, plaintiffs, on
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  • 56 7 Howarth Erskine Co. General Meeting. (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, December 30. Mr. Lemberger presided at the ninth annual general meeting of Messrs. Howarth Erskine Co. The report and accounts were adopted. A dividend of 7% was declared on the preference shares. A sum of $14,175.35 was carried forward. Mr.
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  • 86 7 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, December 3i. At the meeting of the Kampar Tin Co., Mr. Allan, who presided, explained that all the available working capital had been expended and that money had to be obtained from outside firms to put the plant in working order. Messrs.
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  • 77 7 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, December 31. At the Singapore Rubber Auction 120 piculs of rubber were offered for sale and 70 piculs were sold at the following prices Sheet smoked fine $lOl to $ll4 per pikul fair good $Bl $lOO unsmoked, fine $75„ 89 Crepes fine
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  • 128 7 This publication with the sweet-sounding name has apparently come to stay as a hardy annual. Anyhow the number for Christmas, 1914, reached us this morning from Messrs. Kelly Walsh and a very good dollar’s worth it is, either to buy and keep or to send Home. The Editors,
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  • 1007 7 Things in the -local legal wurld are stirriug again and the gentletnou of the long robe are beginning to sit up and take an interest in life once more A curious custom will be observed on New Year’s Eve at the village of Weldon, near Kettering On the
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  • 298 7 FIRST DAY'S HANDICAPS. The following are the handicaps for the first day of the January meeting. Rack I. st lb. The Cockatoo IK 7 The Friar 11. 2 Hedonist 10. 6 Boombah 10. 4 Preopal 9. 8 Ludwig 810 Lady Flower 8. 0 Friendless 7. 7 Maori Girl
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    • 71 7 THE GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE CO., LTD. Head Office:— SINGAPORE. Life Assurance and Endowment in All Forms. LIBERAL POLICIES. LOW RATES Financial Agents for Penarg. SELLAR. MURRAY CO. local Office: —No. 7, Union Street. nnnnnn “DE RESZKE” THE ARISTOCRAT Q&. CIGARETTES. n Packed in hermetically sealed tins specially for the
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    • 333 7 Runnymede Hotel, Penang, A. Kerdyk (Proprietor) and J. G Huinmeling («Manager) beg to extend t e Seaaou’s Greetings to all their Friends and Patrons. Ist Jan. 1015. J. de Alwis, {Late of the P. TP. D. Ceylon and S. S Licensed Surveyor and Contractor. 30 Years of Active Practice in
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  • 116 8 Alor Gajab(from Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, December 30. At the meeting of the shareholders of the Alor G«jih Rubber Company, Mr. Sime f who presided, said that the total acreage was 5 8, of wbi b 332 acres were being tapped at a cost of 35 cents per
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  • 78 8 (From Our Own Correspondent). Singapore, December 30. At the Zetland Lodge Installation meeting, Wor. Bro. E liot installed Wor Bro. Amery as master who appointed Bro. Hunt S. W., Bro Meredith J. W, Bro. Bailey Treasurer, Bro. Mayhew Secretary, Bro. Wilson Asst. Secretary, Bro. Garcia Senior warden
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  • 62 8 Judjman's for Plaintiffs. {From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, December 30. The action which was heard at Medan brought by the Neslte Milk Company against the owners of the Scandia has been concluded. Judgment was given for the plaintiffs, who will also rot have to pay
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  • 435 8 Hatred ok the Skies. There is another side to this lofty spirit of patriotism (for confidence and patience like these must be the highest conceivable form of patriotism), the fierce, blazicg hatred of the women for the traitor and the spy. Thus writes one of the Times
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  • 912 8 tastmocy Eire»» —The Railway Questioo— Electric Lifhtinf—Athletic Meetint Forbidden—Policewomen. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Canton, December 18. The Canton Conservancy Bureau will soon become an active factor here, if funds can be raised for its work, and expert advisers procured Tom Hock Hung, formerly Secretary of the Navy
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  • 668 8 Telegrams to Netherlands India Papers. The Hague, December, 21-24. The Germans are taking precautionary measures agaiust the possibility of British troops being landed at Zaebrugge. The inhabitants of the portion of the city where submarines are being put together are entirely isolated from the rest of the
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  • 204 8 The Negri Sembilian expect to start 1915 with a balance to ciedit of slightly under $1,200,000. The Government anticipates in 1915 a revenue of $2 458,000, and pio poses to spend $172,000 more than that sum. Thus, iu comparison with the current year, the expenditure for 1915 will
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  • 30 8 Dec 29 By Balance 8 519.96 30 Dr. and Mr 9. A. B. JesserCoope 50 00 Balance Dec. 30. 8 569.96 Amuuut previously acknowledged 6,613.33 Total *7,1*8.29
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  • 581 8 Training Notes. There was a fair gathering at the Race Course this morning to watch the training for the approaching January meeting. The morning was a clear and an ideal one for work, but the track was a little on the heavy side owing to yesterday evening’s downpour,
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  • 155 8 Thou art not beautiful; but then we know But skin-deep is the lreauty of the face: And what is meretricious outward show Compared with inward spiritual grace Thy scent is hardly that of ladies’ bowers—’Tis rather that of drains, or dubious cheese; Yet sweeter than the
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  • 41 8 Dec. -29 By Balance $56,842 81 30 C. C. Rogers 50.00 Katz Bios. Ld. Local B-aDch 1,000.00 Lee Chin Ho 50 00 Kuna Muthusamy P'Uay 50.00 Ana Yelu Tindal 50.00 Balance Dec 30. ..,$58,042.81
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    • 492 8 E. 8 0. HOTEL. 1 NEW YEAR EVE. THURSDAY, 31st DEC.. 1914. t V SPECIAL DINNER.; DANCING. TOWN BAND AND E. 6 0. ORCHESTRA. Patriotic Souvenirs will be presented during Dinner. Commencing Friday Ist January 1915 A New Year Programme or Exceptional Merit at George Town Kinema Kuala Kangs* Road
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    • 62 8 A Germ Destroyer. There is no danger whatever from lockjaw or blood poison resulting from a wound when Charnbe»lain’s Pain 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 time required
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    • 33 8 TO LET. IT'ROM the Ist October, 1914, COMJJ POUND HOUciE, No. 63, Northam Road, lately in the occupation of Capt. 8 R Pei kins. For particulars apply to 17-9.14 67» KENNEDY A Oo
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    • 585 8 PENANG TURF CLUB JANUARY MEETING. 1915. ADMISSION to Grand Stand by Tickets only. Tickets for Grand Stand can be obtained at the Secretary’s Office, or at the gate. These Tickets are only sold subject to right of the Committee to return the money at aDV time to the Holder without
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  • 1305 9  -  (Br r 0*o R. Sim* Before our eyes there is being written line hv line a chapter of wor d hi>tory that bundrel*‘f years hence the students of hi-tnry will be poring over and th*» writers of history will be writing about according io
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  • 224 9 To the Editor or the Straitt Echo. Dear Sir, I beg to forward a copy of a letter received from the Coropte de Bondy,. Consul for France, Singapore. Amount previously acknowledged $1,100.00 Since received from Mr. M. D. Daly 20 0° Since received from Mr. Chin Seng
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  • 378 9 The following, which occurs iu the Recollections of an Irish Judge recently published by Hurst and Blackett, will interest the younger among us: “The late Judge Webb, as counsel, once applied, on behalf of Peter Mulligan, for licence for a public-house: He is very young tor
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    • 466 9 FOR Guide to Penang, BT THK LATH E F. Skertchly v f. s s Price 50 cents. Worth a Dollar a copy-"} BOLD AT STRAITS ECHO” OFFICE AND AT THE SAVE-U-TROUBLE FIRM THE London Directory (Publishod Annually.) Enables traders throughout the World to communicate direct with English Manufacturer» 0* Dealers
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    • 392 9 NOTICE LABOUR CODE. 1912. F.M.S Indian Immigration Fond Ordinance 1911.’ EMPLOYERS OF INDIAN LABOUR are hereby reminded that awsensuient returns for the preceding quarter must be »ent to the Office of the Deputy Controller if Labour, Penang, during the months of April, July, October and January. Forms for the return
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    • 448 9 Coughs and Angiers Emulsion has her» prescribed by the medical profession and used in the hospitals for the last twenty years and is now universally recognised as the standard approved remedy for coughs, bronchitis, asthma, consumption and all forms of lung trouble. It is superior to other lung remedies simply
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  • 1325 10 RACIAL RUIN FOR GERMANY. Wholesale Destruction of Her Fittest (By Dr. C. W. Saleeby Soldiering needs eoldierly men to fight a nation’s battles, for national life or death, a man should be everything that is manly When some of our brave boys died at Rorke’s Drift in
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  • 597 10 It hardly needs saying that the charac teristics of a race may be discerned as readily in its boys as in its meD, and that its changes, fashions, reforms aud tempor- try fancies are even more appa’ent in the 1 vnunger generation than iu the older.
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    • 461 10 ->OGCOC 000.0000 F AINC CHEANC Co., ccoocooccoooi?. tajwine naj. o We Lave just unpacked a large consignment of private nrUhaws of the latest type which can be fitted with Bnglijh-uudc whodi, etc. complete and can l>e had at prices which defy compttitiou. We have in stock Rickshaw and Mol or
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    • 62 10 A Germ Destroyer. There it no danger whatever from lockjaw or blood poison resulting from a wound when Chamber lain’s ''ain Balm is promptly applied. It is an antiseptic and destroys the germs which cause these diseases. It also causes wouuds to heal without maturation and m one-third the time
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    • 11 10 For Children’s Hacking Cough at Night. Woods’ Oraat Pepparmint Car* la
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    • 496 10 (MSI The World’s Family Medicine The retion why Beecham’a Pill* have come to occupy thi* premier place among family medicines is clear to everyone who ha* had occasion to test their unequalled medicinal qualities. Between the many so-called cure* for digestive disorders and this wonderful remedy there is a wide
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  • 341 11 Alkmmhii (uarUr^, >- IMfo S tbat a B Jmber. s.‘ 4 a>i a m miilit:*-h W C J of Mt att.icb W, r? rT |fioubtless will h ”*and,ng.ov,r i is hkeui-e ®4taie of Bulgaria. Tbi« rse. implj a modifiirrangement by which ••d a portion of the and certainly
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  • 254 11 The relations between the Austrians and their Croatian Slavonic) subject is curiously tJoIT i* by the following incident which a la *f Se last January and is described by simil* Chamber'» Journal. It is very i V the pofiti oll of the Austrians went; years ago Another
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  • 282 11 One of the curious social questions that are troubling Great Britain just now is whether a man should marry before going to the front. It is called a problem of war and love” and it has led to great difference of opinion. Some men say it would
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    • 169 11 The Children’s Colds. Watch tho children’s colds and cure them before they weaken the yitality. Use Chamlierlaiu s Remedy freely. It is per[ectly safe. It has been tested by chemists md pronounced free from injurious subtrees and costs but a trifle. For sale by ,11 Dispensaries and Dealers. J i
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    • 152 11 For Chronic Chest Complaints, Wootjg’ Qrant PnppArminl Core. la. fid. HOTEL NORMAN, PENANC’S SELECT RESIDENTIAL HOTEL. ENGLISH PROPRIETORSHIP. LARGE airy rooms facing the sea. COLO STORACE FOOD. Under tbe patronage of H.to. Judges, Medical Officers, Colonial Secretaries, Magistrates, Consuls, etc. Terms:—MODERATE Special rates to Offieiils, Planters and F.M 8, Visitors.
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