Straits Echo, 17 August 1916
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Straits Echo
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Title Section35 1916-08-17 1 Straits Echo DAILY CUROMCLE OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL. 14% $24 Per Annua PENANG, THURSDAY, 17lli AUGUST, 1916. Sisfle C*fj, 19 cents. No. 101.35 words
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Advertisement1168 1916-08-17 1 BRANO h 1 h [yZED NATUifii Two second-hand two-seater motor cars for Sale. MORRIS OXFORD AND SWIFT. In good running order, complete with accessories. Intending purchasers can have a trial run and full particulars obtained from The Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang Road. Tel Address Hokimteik, Penang. 'Phone No.1,168 words
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Advertisement20 1916-08-17 2 DRINK i RECOGN BY OISSEURS AS THE ON THE SOLE AGENTS: m (Incorporated in the Straits Settlements.) 5 5 PENANG20 words
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Article1178 1916-08-17 3 A Great Chan <sb. It bai changed -yfi, changed completely perhaps not 60 completely to the outward eye as to the eyes of one who knew and lived in a regimental mess in the days before the war. How d.fferent a mesa is now from what it1,178 words
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Article723 1916-08-17 3 How Qbnbral Bbcbiloff Succeeded. Simla, July 21. Russian papers received in Colombo give details of what wis accomplished during the first week of the great Russian offer s ve against the Austrian army started by Gene ril BruBiltff at a place called Olika. Tbe front of the723 words
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Advertisement259 1916-08-17 3 E. O. Hotel. ■:o:« SPECIAL TIFFIN CVEIY WEDNESDAY 6? SATURDAY. Ride a B. S. A. Perfect in every Part. js ML n H 31 a»' Sif-f* $3 ?Vv One 3 Speed Model Cbain Drive. Pric? $650 net cash. Oae 3 Chaia cuiE-belt Drive. Piice 1650 ne 1 tad». CYCLE m259 words
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Advertisement515 1916-08-17 3 DREADFUL ECZEMA Cured by Dr. Morse’s Indian Root Pills, That torturing and disfiguring disease has its cause in an impure condition of the blood. The impure condition of the blood often arises from a diseased condition of the stomach and allied organs ct digestion and nutrition. When digestion is imperfect515 words
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Article807 1916-08-17 4 A general routing of tbia Association will ba held at 10 80 *.m on Wednesday, the 30th of August, 1916, at No. 12 Market Street, Kuala Luropu r to transact the following. Aoxkda. 1. Minute'i of Meeting of June 25, 1916. 2. Recruiting in Dd a.807 words
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Article424 1916-08-17 4 THE REFORT FOR JUNE. X Rat Installed. Capt. G. D. Freer reports under date July 6th: < Eighty-eight patients remained on May 31, seventy were admitted from the 1st 1 Eastern Gemral Hospital during June, 38 were discharged, and 120 remained in Hospital at the end of the424 words
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Article463 1916-08-17 4 Interview with the New President, The Peking correspondent of the Daily Telegraph cables the subrtarce of an interview granted to him by iho cow Chinese President, General L Yuan Hung, whom he describes as the apotheosis of the democratic movement which is now aimiDg at consolidating in463 words
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Advertisement69 1916-08-17 4 Arc Y u Goin* on Journey? Chamberlain's Colic, Cbolera and Diarrhoea Remedy should bo packed in yoor hand luggage whcu going on a journey. Change of water, dnt. and temperature all tend to produce bowel trouble, bnd this medicine o*nnot be secured on board the t'ain or ateamab p. It69 words
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Advertisement418 1916-08-17 4 THE GOVERNMENT ADVISE YOU TO PRACTISE ECONOMY Whiteaway Laidlaw s r SA3L.E will help you to do so The Opportunity is yours to supply Future Wants at a Decided S wing. SALE ONCE A YEAR u A J You cannot fail to b"» satisfied wilh the value here portrayed. ALWAYS418 words
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Advertisement10 1916-08-17 4 For Chrome Chest Complaint?, Woods’ Gieat Pepparmiut Cure le. 6d10 words
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Advertisement565 1916-08-17 4 Driving p ain Have you a pain anvwhfvp Is it a l'ttle pain or a big p *j n torture a s ngle rerve C r do*, it rack vour entiie being 1 B nn d *od I Isa’t it foo ish then to be or aches, big or little,565 words
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Article889 1916-08-17 5 Preliminary Enquiry The preliminary enquiry nto the case against Muna Slaimaa charged with murder by causing the death of a Tamil woman, named Govindaun, in Queen Street on June 17 was commenced yesterday afternoon in the District Court b< fore Mr. J. C. Sugars. The accused889 words
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Article81 1916-08-17 5 The outputs from the following companies for the first half of August were Kamusting Tin Dk«doing Ltd. Piculs 3201 Hours run 318 Cbbnderiakg Tin Dredging Ltd. Dredge. P.culs 2201 Hours run 307 Eaevatcrs. Piculs 30 Total cutput (CLenderiang) 250 j Mr. Khaw Joo Tok advises us that the81 words
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Article385 1916-08-17 5 A Money Lender’s Appeal 0 Che Bee biati MusUd, who ia the owner r of two pieces of land in North East j Penang, has three children Che Din (first j defendant) a son, Mab Wan Teh (second defendant) a daughter and another eon named Mohamad385 words
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Article188 1916-08-17 5 Penang Women Workers. Amount previously acknowLdged $2,656.40 Mrs. Cleaver 6r.k Dm. 10.00 Mrs. Samuel sth Don. 2 00 Ladies Bridge Book Golf Club 2nd Don. 23.00 Mias Harding I.CO $2,692.40 Hospital garments for soldiers ready cut out for workers will be given out at the Town188 words
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Article233 1916-08-17 5 Any one visiting the premises of the Singapore Harbour Board at TaDjong Pagar, if he has not done so for the last few months will be surprised, writes a correspondent to tie S.T. at the vast strides made towards the completion of wharf. With the exception of233 words
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Article53 1916-08-17 5 To-morrow. for Deli and Asahan, 10 a.m. H*be, for Bagan Datoh and Teluk Anson, 3.30 p.m. I?th Instant. Kutsang, for Singapore, China and Japan, 1.30 p m. Kxnta. for Pert Swettenham and Singapore, 3 30 pm. Ncvira, for Ceylon, Australasia, India, I AdeD, Mauritius, Egypt Rod Europe etc.53 words
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Advertisement349 1916-08-17 5 The New Cirque Splendid success of the opening programme. To-niglit! To-night!! AT 9-80 PM AN D FOLLOWING EVENIN3S THE BEST CIRCUS The most 1 lilliant assembly of Artistes ever brought together. Afternoon Performance Saturday, 19th August, at 5 30 p m. Children Half-Price to all parts. £smino7 COMING!!! ()ur next349 words
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Advertisement361 1916-08-17 5 WESTMINSTER CIGARETTES. TURKISH BLEND. PACKED IN AIR TIGHT TINS. ALL DEALERS. n \-T r* 4a /0 'X CCK Ol V X S •K^ o s> r NOTICE is hereby given that the above trade ixark is the j lint property of the Asiatic Petroleum Company (S. S L mited and361 words
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Article, Illustration101 1916-08-17 6 NAM d*3j («xoept Bndftjt aid poblit hotidAys) AS Til CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Fbjoi. DtoDy Leanl M 184 per annum. OstoUtion... Postage Extra. Mai EMfcm (Port Free) 917.50 H 0 «ABLB iODBlU: r "ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Not. (Eeko y 586 Printing Departe&ent 343 jr.r.-An101 words
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Article1380 1916-08-17 6 A private letter from a teacher, which we have been privileged to see, raises a point that is not only of interest and importance in itself but has the additional attraction of being perennially topical. "1 am trying to teach Shakespeare to Chinese boys, and it is1,380 words
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Article922 1916-08-17 6 Mr. A. W. Bites, of Messrs. Barlow and Co., Kuala Lumpur, goes home on leave by the mail. A high mass of requiem for the respose of the soul of the lat 3 Mr. B. E D’Aranje will be sung at the Church of the Assumption to-morrow.922 words
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Article971 1916-08-17 6 Frederick the Great. To-day is au important anniversar. Prussian history, for on August \1 died the most famous of her km,. Frederick tfce Great. The frail victor of so many i passed peacefully away, accord,L Carlyle s pathetic description, in the of a faithful valet, who held him971 words
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Advertisement123 1916-08-17 6 CAPTURING TRADE ENEMY SERIES NOW OM SALE, PIRIN (British Manufacture) FOR HEADACHE, NEURALGIA, RHEUMATISM and all forms of NERVE TROUBLES Useful in Influenza, Acute and Chronic Affections of the Joints. Price per bottle of 25 Tablets $1.20. THE GEORGE TOWN DISPENSARY. LTD., TH£ LEADING CHEMISTS. Penang, Taiping and I poll.123 words
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Article623 1916-08-17 7 (Reuter's Service) Copyright Telegram. A LENGTHY VISIT. liUrutiif Meeting*. London, Aug. 15. Router’s correßpondent at the British Headquarters states that the King sjeat a we *k in France, touring in the war art a. His Majestj visited the trenches, where h s presence evoked extraordinary scenes623 words
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Article893 1916-08-17 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. rreaeke* Recaptured. London, August 15. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a comi munique, states that nearly the wbole of i the remainder of the trenches north-west of Poz:e-es, in which tho enemy gained a footing on the 18th ius f have been retaken. An893 words
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Article547 1916-08-17 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. Artillery Activity. London, August 15,4 40 p.m. The Paris communif ul stakes Our artillery was vsry active on the Somme. We carried by brilliant grenade k attacks portions of German trenches on a ftont of 300 and to a depth of 100 metres. 1547 words
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Article195 1916-08-17 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. j FURTHER PROGRESS. Aerial Aelivity. London, Aug. 15, 4.30 p.m. The Italian communique says “We captured the enemy trenches west of Sangrade and Mount Pecinka in the Carso and east of Gorisia, taking 1,600 prisoners. Enemy attacks were everywhere reI pulsed.” Svceetefal Air Raid.195 words
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Article60 1916-08-17 7 (From Over Own Vorr&pondenlJ Singapore, Aug. 17. Messrs. Frsser A Co.’s weekly report states that there has been a slight expansion of rubber shares and wider fluctuations in the commodity, affecting the market more noticeably than for soon time past. Indus trials are iu good demand. There60 words
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Article71 1916-08-17 7 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, Aug. 10. At the Singapore Rubber Auction 384,201 lb were sold at the following prices per picul Smoked Sheets $ll3 to $ll5 Good 110 112 Plain 101 108 Unsmoked ribbed 97 98 Plain 100 103 Crepes 113 11$ Good Pale 105 11171 words
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Article69 1916-08-17 7 The undermentioned prices were realised for rubber sold by Messrs. Allen Dennys and Co. at their Auction Sale to-day Smoked Ribbed Sheet $lO6 to $llB per picul. Smoked Plain Sheet $lO5 Unsmoked Sheet... $99 $lO3 Crepe fine pale thin and blanket $ll2 $ll3 Good pale thin $lO269 words
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Article167 1916-08-17 7 To-i»y’» Quotation*. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day at $B2. business done, in Singapore (refined) at $B2 20, buyers no sellers, and in London at £l7l spot and £172 three months’ sight. Messrs. Boustead A Co. inform us that the following were the quotations for Rubber on167 words
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Article552 1916-08-17 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. CONTINUED ADVANCE. Skuii i> Persia. London, August 15. Tha Russian official communique says: i H Our advance to the west in the region of the upper Strypa continues. We successfully crowed the western tanks of the Z'otalipa and Bystritzi—Solotvinskaia. Turks Dcfcatri. "We occupied a552 words
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Article120 1916-08-17 7 The following articles will be fmnd on our outside pages Page. 3. —The Officers’ Mess. The Russian Drive. 4. —F.M S.Hospital. Reforms in China. Toe Planters* Association of Malaya. 5. —Queen Street Murder Case. Tin Oatputs. Pull Court of Appeal. Queen Mary’s Needlework Guild. 8. —Partnership Ca«e. The Wefk’s120 words
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Article460 1916-08-17 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. Difficulties of Tmport. Lor don, August 14. In reply to Sir Edward Carson, Mr. Austen Chamberlain (Secretary cf State for 1 lodia) said that the difficulty of transport in Meiopotamia bad not been wholly over* 1 come and oonld not be overcome for eome time.460 words
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Article278 1916-08-17 7 FORTHCOMING INSTALLATION CEREMONY. Preseatatioa of Addresses. Now that the date provisionally fixed for the installation of His Highness the Saltan of Perak, namely, Saturday, September 9, is rapidly drawirg near, rays the T.O.M. arrarg*ments are being initiated by the various communities to present the mw Ruler with278 words
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Article1595 1916-08-17 8 interesting local judgment, D»»BTTCL CHIRM» CHARACTERS. Mr Jaatioe Inms delivered a leDgtby i «dementia the Kuala Lumpur Bupreme Court on S.tnrdoj in »mm in which four Singapore Chine ie firm» claimed 19,70/.0/ for good, tupplied to the def ndants Png Keat Sin, Kor Nee Chuan and Wan Wong,1,595 words
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Article386 1916-08-17 8 Bowls Tournament. The following was the result of the tie played eff yeetorday: Single Handicap. W Brown beat W S Dunn 21 —18 The following ties have been fixed for Friday the 18th inst. Single Handicap. R H Reid vs. A Lindiey (1) W Houston vs. H386 words
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Article919 1916-08-17 8 INITIAL INTEREST DIVIDEND j DECLARED. Report of Directors for Past Year. I The following is the report of the direc-1 tors of Malayan Collieries, Limited, for the I year ended June 30 last. It is signed by I Messrs- J. A. Russel and Co., the managing I agents919 words
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Article296 1916-08-17 8 The s s. City of Bombay is expected here I from Singapore to-morrow. I The d parture of the e.s Novara has been j d t'err- d uutil Saturday evening. The s.s. AJcinous outward bound is due to arrive here ou the 19:h instant. The s s. Olenartney296 words
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Article157 1916-08-17 8 Thursday, August 17. Penang Voluutoers —Ambulance Co. Drill, Fort Cornwallis, 5.30 p.tn. Recruit Drill Chinese Company, 5.30 p.tn. Football—P.C.C- vs. P R.C. Esplanade. Friday, August 18. Town Band, Esplanade, 6 p.tn. PenaDg Volunteers —Recruit Drill, Maxims, Fort Cornwallis, 5.30 p.m. Ambulance Co. Drill, Fort Cornwallis, 5.30 p.m.157 words
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Article36 1916-08-17 8 Friday, 18th August, 1916. Esplanade. 6to 7 p.m. 1 Selection Bocaccio Suppe 2 Lancers Arry and Arriet Crook 3 Waltz Dearest Love Rose 4 Polka Chant du Ccc Short a March Rebecca Comandery... Pette36 words
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Advertisement12 1916-08-17 8 For Childrens Hacking Cough at Night. Wood»’ Great Peppermint Cure li. 6d12 words
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Advertisement29 1916-08-17 8 Keep It Handy. Immediate relief is necessary m attacks of diarrhoea, Chamberlain’s XJolic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy should always be on band, For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.29 words
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Advertisement72 1916-08-17 8 Teething Chi'dren Teething children have more or less diarrhoea, which can ba controlled by giving Chamberlain’s Colic, Choleta and Diarrhoea Remedy. All that is necessary is to give the prescribed dose after each operation of the bowels more than natural and then castor oil to cleause the system. It is72 words
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Advertisement468 1916-08-17 8 Para Rubber Seed* and Stumps. For particulars and prices Apply to KHOO KIM HUN, Manager, Ban Joo Cheaug Estate, 388 Sungei Patani. for sale. STEAM ENGINE BOILER. One Diver Paxman A Co.’e GO B.H.P Double Cylinder Coupled Horizontal ClaB A Steam Engine One Batcox Wilcox Patent Portable Water Tuba Boiler.468 words
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Article1289 1916-08-17 9 Spirit of the New Armt. It is natural to find exaltation and some tendency to optimistic mggeration in the mind and talk of the soldier who has come unscathed through an cffensive action. All the exhilaration of the aecault is his, without the vitality-sapping sufferings which1,289 words
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Article401 1916-08-17 9 In Volume VI. cf the Calender of the S‘uirt Papers, preserved at Windsor Castle, row issued, is incluled the letter of Charles WogaD, the zealous Jacobite, describing his exptr.ences while on a wife-hunting expedition on behalf of James HI,” Wogaa, a veritalli knight errant, waat to Oh’an401 words
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Article186 1916-08-17 9 Pneumonia as a HealthTest. The ability to survive a severe attack of pneumonia is the best possible proef of a vigoroui constitution, says a writer in the Medical Times (New York). A man who his just passed through such an attack is one of the best life-insurance risks imaginable, be186 words
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Advertisement941 1916-08-17 9 THE EVER POPULAR HOUSEHOLD REMEDY hich has now borne the Stamp of Public Approval for OVER FORTY YEARS. END’S ‘FRUIT SALT’ Pleasant to Take, Refreshing and Invigorating. IT IS VERY BENEFICIAL IN ALL CASES OF Biliousness, Sick Headache, Constipation, Errors In Diet—Eating or Drinking, Thirst, Giddiness, Rheumatic or Gouty Poison,941 words
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Advertisement68 1916-08-17 9 Supplied by A'l Chenmts. Physicians p/eecriba Chunbarlain’a Co’ic, Cholera and D a’r :oea K m dy because it relieves cramp* in the stomach and intestinal pains quicker than any pr< p .ration they an compound. Item t»e bought from acy chemist. A tkt le will k ep for years, and68 words
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Advertisement63 1916-08-17 9 A machine weakened in one pa't soon breaks d >w n altogether. That U the case with stffrre-s fou indigestion, a most disheartening lf j o u 'are troub’ed, (urn immediately tb S WOODS’ CRE\T PEPPERMINT CORE A course of this mediciaĕ wTlr place the booy machine io peifect running63 words
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Article1158 1916-08-17 10 A French Soldiir’s Diart. You are a soldier of 1915-1916. Your stories of cff-days and of battle-days are equally simple. Tbeir rigorous reality admits of no embroidery. An old printer told me one day that on the margin of the manuscript of a celebrated writer he read, imperfectly1,158 words
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Article610 1916-08-17 10 Boy welfare work in a munition factor» must be experienced before it can be understood, and even then there is a residuum that brfflis analysis. It is based upoa "output” not sentiment, but the human element may be introduced, obliquely as it were, during the dinner-hour. The610 words
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Advertisement198 1916-08-17 10 Hutteabach Bros. S ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS CONTRACTORS. SOLE AGENTS FOR: All kinds of ELECTRICAL MACHINERY Free Estimates Given for all Kinds of Electrical Work. Mining Plants and Private Lighting Installations a Speciality. AGENTS FOR THE STERLING TELEPHONE CO., LTD. Large Stocks of Telephones are kept and Private Installations can be Started198 words
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Advertisement73 1916-08-17 10 Teething Chi'drea Teething children hare more or less diarrhoea, which can be controlled by giving Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. A 1 that is necessary is to give the prescribed dose after each operation of the bowels more than natural and then castor oil to cleanse the system. It73 words
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Advertisement58 1916-08-17 10 Harsh Purgatives, Salts and Castor Oil, are old fashioned remedies more drastic than safe. csnniS' the tiny laxatives ensure the same results, but in a perfectly natural manner. They do not upset the stomach, nor gripe, but gently assist nature. Of chemists, 50 cents per phial or po* free from58 words
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Article1098 1916-08-17 11 “Silas Q. Swing HIS OWN VERSION OF A KIPLINO STORY. [By Henry Suydam.] Mr. Rudyard Kipling's account of the exploits of E 11 in the Sea of Marmora contains a British version of an exceeding!, entertaining encounter between a B itisb submarine and a Turkish transport laden with munitions. My1,098 words
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647 1916-08-17 11 Enemy Reverses An officer in the Indian Army, whore regiment is fighting in Eist Afric», describes in a letter to his parents some of the fightirg which took place early in April. He remarks on tbo usefulness of the Masai not us fighters but647 words
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Article133 1916-08-17 11 Strange Case at Allahabad. Allahabad, July 20. In a civil suit by an Allahab.-d meicbant for tha recovery of the price of goods sold, the defendant, A F. Schmidt, a tuardonthe G e t Indian Peninsula Railway, at Hardi, p’eaded thit be was a German subject. The133 words
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Advertisement115 1916-08-17 11 GOODRICH V lll 7\ v' ill m H t TVS m £f?. is m v Xi #yr Si ipc I ■I m LARGE REDUCTION IN PRICES. SEE 1916 PRICE LIST. SOLE AGENTS: ADAMSON, GILFILLAN GO., LTD., (INCORPORATED IN ENCLAND) PENANG, SINGAPORE MALACCA. JUST ARRIVED. WOLF MOTOR CYCLES MODEL 1916 SINGLE115 words
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Advertisement38 1916-08-17 11 A Waiter Remedy. Chamberlain's Colic,Cholera and Diarrhoea Ksmedy is roaster over cramp colic, dysentery, and all intestinal paiDS. One dose relieves, a second dose is rare'y necessary to effect a cure. For la'e by all Dispensaries and Dealers.38 words
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Advertisement492 1916-08-17 11 3NT OTICB Is hereby given that I hare from this day established myself as WATCH DEALER at premises No. 338, CUULIA STREET and that I have no connection with the business earned on by Mr. M. Kikucbi cn the same premises. M. P. HONDA. WANTED. A N EXPERIENCED CLERK with492 words
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Advertisement1401 1916-08-17 12 p. B. I. AND APCAR LINE (INCORPORATED IK ENGLAND.) Mail and i Passenger Servieei PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS. MAIL 8ERVICE. flffrtward (for Europe.) Outward (for China and YXz- KONINKLIJKE PAKETYAART MAAT8CHAPP1J. (ROYAL PACKET S. N. COMPANY.) (INCORPORATED IK HOLLAND-) Foe Iktbndid to Sail. Steamer N. Y. K (Incorporated ik Japan.)1,401 words
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