Weekly Sun, 12 October 1912

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  • 17 1 The Weekly Sun. BREAKER STRAITS SETTLEMENTS EDITION. 126. CROSS STREET. SINGAPORE. PRICE SINGAPORE. sXTTRprr-lir?T7^^ 10L2 NO. 111.
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    • 587 1 J Splendid Value in Folding Bird Cages. j j Enamelh-d. red, blue an ,i green I PRICE $1.75 EACH. I gfy-jjitt ;3 K S-, SBS^* -J Mm m WAts^f Fr u 1 SYJ£» j IftjptM rjr't.+wSmwi I JB _w* Iv-Uil JKapV v^?fr ■-'»>«' .j'l J 'it a *L» Ir ii.
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    • 24 1 Strong Folding Deck Chairs, j Polished hardwood frame, smart striped canvas. j PRICES $2.bD AND $3.50. f With leg rest. I PRjGE $3.95^ j
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  • 620 2 Extreme Pessimism. Coming Partition. On the futuro of China Mr. OUhi Masami, M. P., is quoted by the Tokyo Asahi to the effect that he ia of opinion that China will, sooner or later, be partitioned by the Powers aud eventually ruined. There is no hope
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  • 160 2 Thuuderstroms never occur in the Arctic regions. Nearer the equator the more severe are the electric manifestations. In certain parts of Central Africa the average run of thunderstorms is 250 days a year, yet there are seme very curious exception. In Sumatra and Java, both very
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    • 536 2 THE National Mitia! Life Association o! Australian, Limited. Established 1869. The first Life Assurance Office in the World to apply the Non-Forfeiture Principle to Policies. Mutual Offioe No Shareholders All profits belong to Policy-holders. Annual Inoome (1911) $10,268,128.00. Funds $57,434,777.00. Claims Paid $48,580,853.00. STATEMENT. Showing to progress of The National
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    • 275 2 A Few Reasons Why You Should Buy a FORD BECAUSE 125,000 others are using the same make of car, and getting the utmost satisfaction from their purchase. BECAUSE every other car you meet on .the road, both in|fthe Straits and F. M. S., is a Ford which testifies to theirjunique
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  • 3349 3 News From all Sources. Peking, September 27.— The sextupl, group loan negotiations have practical been resumed. The government wants at immediate advance of three million taels There has been on formal conference of thi Chinese bankers, but this will oorue soon To-morrow the minister of finance will coufer with
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    • 57 3 I CONTINENTAL j Buses and heavy Commercial Vehicles. I aB^I \r^ Wmm !^l S'^ S^niiji I s^B fbr jLt\ \W bH I.«^.a.Bff\^»>ify '-^BE^-b^^bl m*^^ **^KSB. 1£ ViLAI '^•Jr I BJa^Ba9^£avl aB H jjj a*^M* H fV/',n BllißW7^>^A! BT '*JB|lS^^ KNOWN ALL OVER THE WORLD. I I^'€L CONTINENTAL TYRE X RUBBER
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  • 247 4 The Archbishop of York delivered last month bis address as President of the Roya 1 Sanitary Institute which is meeting in York. He said that during the last 50 yoars saniturv progress had halved the death-rate, aud doubled the average duration of life, and, as to
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  • 462 4 The Transvaal produced 4,000,000 tensj of coel lait year. m The average coast of a first-class rail* way locomotive is about £3,000. ■■i French trade has risen in nine years from £335,240,000 to £510,623,400. I A lion cub born at the Leeds Zoo has ibeeu successfully reared
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  • 485 4 The follow reports aro taken from the local Chinee e papers. Cbao Ping-chan advised all the ministers to join tho Kuo Mia Tang at a cabinet con-, feronce and all those who aro not in the! party feel inclined to agree to do so except Chou fliaeh-hsi,
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  • 82 4 j Crown gall, a disease found in many plant, is analagous to cancer in the human (family, according to Dr. Krwin Smit h, of the Bureau ef Plant Path ology, U. 8. A. Department of Agriculture, after a long study of the plant afteetiou. It is believed
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    • 24 4 Notice to Advertisers. ALL ADVERTISEMENTS must, hereafter, reach us by Friday at 2 p. m Ads. received later cannot tppear ia same week's issue.
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    • 332 4 RUGS! RUGS!! RUGS!!! NEW STOCK EXTRA LARGE SIZES OO by 90 $7.50 aoh TWO PATTERNS TO EACH RUG FRINGE ENDS. mwmmmmWmmwaammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmaaammmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Exceptional Value. Katz Brothers. Limited. SINGAPORE. A FOOLISH OLD IDEA. It waa once thought that a medicine waa all the more beneficial for having a nasty taste and smell.
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    • 80 4 TO OUR READERS. m If this paper appeals to you, give it I your practical support and encourage the only Chinese journalistic enterjpnse in Singapore by filling in the [accompanying form and posting it to jus Subscription Form. To the Weakly Sun, 126, Croee Street, Singapore. Please enter my name
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    • 163 4 Siemens Brothers. i MANUFACTURERS OF [Electrical Machinery, Cables Wires, Apparatus and Accessories tor Electric Light. Power and Traction Purposes. HEAD OFFICE Caxtti House, Westiiaster, LONDON. j Supplies Department Upper Thanes street. LONDON. WORKS. swrtrt. WMMch. fttistM M I BRANCHES. i Cape Town. Melbourne, Calcutta, Toronto, Bombay, Penang, Madras, Rangoon Sydney,
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  • POLICE NEWS.
    • 45 5 Before Mr. Firmstone in the District Court to-day, a Tamil named Shaeu Hamid was fined $20 or three weeks' rigorous imprisonment for causing grievous hurt to another Tamil Another Tamil named Mohamed Kasaim was also charged with the same offence but he was discharged.
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    • 107 5 Govindasamy a Tamil, was charged before Mr. Talma, with being drunk and incapable at Victoria Street He pleaded guilty and was fined $2. m tr^ 60 «T ai L and^ ls wif Tan Poh and Kala Singh and his wife Malam, were charged with fighting before Mr. Talma at
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    • 687 5 For keeping his opium smoking saloon at No. 44 Merchant Road open during prohibited hours, a Teochow named Chua 800 Ngan was fined $5 snd costs. A Hoiken opium smoking saloonkeeper of No. 18 Amoy Street, was fined $10 and costs of summons for allowing a Tamil to smoke
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    • 152 5 f or stealing five catties of rice value 32^ cents from his master named Low A Teng, a Teochew named Yeo Soon got fourteen days imprisonment. m Li Yan Fong, Ho Yu Ngen, Ng Poh i ew x Ho A Fui and Li6w Choon Moi (Kens), were arrested on
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    • 141 5 A ros.\ cooly named Cheong A Seng, was charged with theft of three brass couplings value $21, from the steamer Mirideroo. The evidence showed that accused was seen by the second officer of the steamer cutting the couplings from three hoses belonging to the ship. He sent for the
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  • 259 5 From Hull it is reported that a man who was supposed to have been drowned, and whose relatives had mourned hie loss and drawn his insurance money, has suddenly come to life. In May last, the body of a working man was found in the timber
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  • 314 5 Lady Succumbs to Terrible Barns. Terrible barns received by a young ladv motor cyclist whose fetrol-soaked clothing caught fire whilst she was riding ended fatally. The victim was Miss Gladvs Mar\ Clews a daughter of Mr. John Clows of the Nag's Head Hotel Hockley Health Birmingham and
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  • 201 5 Sir Hiram Maxim recently issued an interesting pamphlet on *A New System for Preventing Collisions at Sea.* Sii Hiram contends that whereas all warm-blooded animals including Man have five senses one animal the bat has a sixth sense which enables it as proved a century ago
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  • 103 5 DEATH RATHER THAN OPERATION. a Fear at having to undergo an operation was stated at Islington to have led to Mary Aun Cranfield 50 single, living in Tufnell Parkroad taking her life. Deceased had for years suffered from a serious malady and had had several operations performed. The other morning,
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  • 102 5 A remarkable feat of endurance, especially considering the low temperature of the water, was performed by W.W. Francis, a criple, of Newport, Mon., who, starting from the outer wrach Buoy at penarth, swam to a point within a line drawn from Newport lighthouse to the Bell Buoy,
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  • 86 5 The M Central China Post correspondent at Tayeh reports that the Tanshanwan cool-mine, which was recently purchased from a Frenchman named Bouchard for Tls. 800,000 by the Hupeh Government, is at the! present time being mis-managed in a, ruinous fashion. Three out of four! foreign engineers have been dismissed,; and
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  • 662 5 I Slanders which Enliven the Law's Dull Routine 'Tiie lawless science of the law, 1 like lighter studies, is not lacking in those howlers,' among its younger disciples, of which the schoolboy has no inonopoiv. It was a joung articled cleric, doing bii first interlocutory before
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  • 75 5 TWELVE. IN A ROOM. Sixty families in the province of Munster occupy only part of one room, savs a Bluebook just issued. There are 11,759 oneroom tenements and in 5,712 cases Ihe room has from two to four ocoup tnts iu 1,661 cases fr m five to seven, in 461
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  • 65 5 m j The fir*t issue of paper money for the Chinese Republic is now being printed in r New York by the American Bank Note j Company. At the oflßce of that compan. i sins tbe 'Philadelphia Record' great secrec\ is being observed 'at the behest of
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  • 715 5 The oft reiterated p ce q/ the English and Dublin d< i men, that every medical post worth having is filled by the pushful Scot, appears to i have a substratum of truth in it. When they meet here it is like a haggis feast I One has
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  • 455 6 The Weekly Sun. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12. THE END OF US. A distinguished American prophet has calmly, and it may be said even cheerfully foretold the early destruction of Europe and part of Asia and Africa by a titanic upheaval of volcanic and seismic forces. Compared with this gentleman Old Moore
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  • 278 6 Cettinje, Oct. 8. Montenegro nasi declared war against Turkey. Constantinople, Oct. 8. The Gos r ernment anxious to allay misinterpret tations regarding the promised reforms! announces that there is no question of autonomy for Macedonia or the appointment of a Christian GovernorGeneral. Tho active war propaguo.ki of the Committee
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  • 227 6 Preparations are being made at Wuchang to open law courts for minor offences. These will replace the old style police court. ■m > 1 it is announced that the Chinese [government are opening hi#h and elementary schools for girls under a Japanese head-mistress. 1 m ii The Buddhist church is
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  • 576 6 Sir Vaientine Chirol will arrive i,, India early in November. m A countrywoman named Maria Anai» Paulocoff has just died at Eirocovo Bulgaria, at the reputed age of 188. m There iy a rumour that His Honour Mr. Justice Thornton will be appointed Chief Judicial Commissioner of
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    • 34 6 ARE YOU PARTICULAR? You know quality, demand value j We supply only Wines and Spirits i of choice quality. Garner Quelch&Co. BATTERY ROAD, j SINGAPORE. and7at SHANGHAI. HONGKONG AND LONDON. 1-6 '•■^■■■•■^•■■■■-■■■■■■■a-a^a-^iaawaaaaa^w**^--- akaV i««BaBMaa«M»aMI>*>««MMMa«VVW»«aw«M*
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  • 442 7 Alleged Merman There arrived at Vancouver recently the* 1 preserved body of a strange creature which; 1 was billed on the manifest of the ship! which brought it from Australia as a 1 merman What it is no one has yet been able to say according to
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  • 220 7 Brought up at North London, Joseph Thomas Nugent, 34, mutician, with noj fixed abode, was charged with deserting hii wife, Florence, and hit infant daughter, Patricia Elizabeth.— Mr. S. Y. Tillej (for the Islington Guardians) said that in March last prisoner and bis wife were living in
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  • 193 7 g No fewer than 300 miners, working iu the Dyllas Drift Llwydcoed near Aberdare were placed in great peril owing to a sudden inrush of water. The drift is situated on the side of the mountain and cannot escape even slightly the full force of a torrentia downpour
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    • 382 7 j m. Caldbeck Macgregor and Company. Wholes a'le and Retail WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, I Ales, Beer and Stout Importers. Telephone No. 160. Price Lists on application. BRANCHES AT LONDON, GLASGOW, SHANGHAI, HONCKONC, TIENTSIN AND KUALA LUMPUR, WITH AGENCIES THROUGHOUT THE EAST. 13-7 ■aVaVaVaVaVBaVaVaVaVaVaVaVaVMaWaVaVaVaVaVaVaVaVaV 'His Master's Voice' GRAM|||HONE IS A
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  • 1579 8 The decisioa of tho Pacific Mail and Nippon Yasen Kaisha to announce competitive freight rates by their steamers Korsa and Inaba Maru. which sailed on September 1 1 and U, against tho Blue Funnel steamer ProUsilaus sailing on September 21, and their subsequent cutting of the
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  • 117 8 An extraordinary incident occurred at Helsingtors recently during the festivities' in connection with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the foundation of the local swimming club the police seizing a Union Jack that bad been hoisted. Reuters correspondent says that the club had arranged so me
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  • 272 8 The Royal Commission which is to consider the question of oil fuel and its application to the propulsion of warships should have something definite to guide it in its investigations if its progress is as leisurely as that of the average body of the kind.
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  • 202 8 Wireless messages will be u t aetoea the Atlantic and to other parts of the world by a new system according to experts within four months not only much taster than by the present systems but also with such precision that it will be p>s*ibieto send pictures by
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    • 18 8 Efltsasxt our Adv ert«siog repre- j I I CC sentative wi be pleased I/|£IQC to submit Up-to-date litvCld
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    • 320 8 PWWWi MMI JfMMMM ICOUGrIIjNG INTO* ICONSDM PTION J E Only a Cough n but you stop it 5 while it is ONLY a cough. 1 11 WATERBU RtY S 11 METABOLIZED I 8 GOD LIVER OIL COMPOUND |i I K3S z SBS t rS£SSB»S3SS€W I Tne finest preparation made for
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    • 162 8 JWaterbury's Metabolized 1 I Cod Liver Oil Compound. I SHHBBMSP^^^^ 7 Finest Norwegian COD LIVER OIL changed I ym §m by the latest scientific process to a form allowing IE &-3jJ££i H With Creosote and Guaiacol, two valuable B 8 \3$tMM I m c idal an<^ anti-turborcular agents. H B
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    • 245 8 ADVERTISEMENTS. ELECTRICAL FITTER WANTED. Eurasian or Native having experience with Electric Motors, Lighting and Wiring. Apply by letter to Box No. 1. 5-9 i WANTED. Gentieman, with extensive knowledge of East and things Chinese, desires position as travelling salesman. Apply Q. co Weekly Sun Office. WANTED, Wanted, a good, steady
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  • 1173 9  - THE JOCKEY'S LIFE AS IT RIALLY IS. Danny Maher By The general public neaius lo be under Ithe impression that a jookey lives a mosti enviable existence of ease and luxury, re-' jlieved by plenty of excitement, but I oan J assure all readers of this article that although in
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  • 157 9 The Khedive of Egypt has boon presented- with an address by Koftammed Patau the president of the Permanent Young Egyptian Committee in Europe in favour of the establishment in Egvpt of a constitutional regime iftei calling attention to the meetings held in Genera by the Yoong Egyptions
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    • 343 9 Sledge Brand Milk IB SUPPLIED TO ALL THE OOVERNMENT MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE FEDERATED MALAY BTATEB. ASK FOR.— "SLEDGE- Natural Sterilized Milk OR SLEDGE" Condensed Unsweetened Milk. SOLE IMPORTERS!: I J Travors A Sons, Ltd. j lILSENER BEER. st~ yQ Q I^^ W\llH!a\i m O"Ty *^y^^ *yri^-nßaaaaaaaßi smaalal^^ 1^ *afl|
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    • 82 9 Loh's Dispensary. Chemists, Druggists and Opticians! (Wholesale and Ttetail). g 108, South Bridge Road, SINGAPORE. j; j k TILCPHONI NO, 419 h TELECRAPHIC ADDRESS I M LON. SINGAPORE. L Depot for all kinds of i Patent Medicines, Toilet Requisites, Perfumery, J Medicated Wines Surgical Instrumenjs, p Chemical j and i
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    • 158 9 I Jodelite Registered. I The Great Timber Preservative. i Jodelite^ ki dS "22 timbe S ch as sv ™y ah > are treatment with rot ind d P ecaT e y Pr teCte<! T* f whiU Protection of Para Rubber Trees. -^^H^Sffl The", 00 1 f T J deli,e ,h
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  • 1166 10 China has been accorded a special place I in the world of art from the time that foreigners first came to this country, buto the demand for ancient Chinese art treasures has become unprecedented in < recent years, and to-day collectors are to i be found in
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  • 393 10 m Few women of fashion in the civilized world to-day possess limbs worthy of comparison with those of the beauties of antiquity, according to Dr. Karl Francke. the distinguished German physician. He bases his opinion upon a series of investigations of what are known
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  • 252 10 e The review of Valencia's bitter orange industry has caused inquiry as to trade in sweet orange peel, dried and packed.'' Investigation shows no business here in that line. There is, however, a very insignificant business done in a few ef the small towns of
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  • 188 10 There is in Prince Edward Island a new development which is attracting great attention i:i the shape of raising foi -bearing animals. It has been proved that the climate of the province is particular! v suitable for tiie breeding of black foxes, and a number of farmers
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  • 153 10 Medical authorities now claim that 11 writer's cramp" aud other similar states of apparent muscular paralysis are actually due, not to the tiring of the mnscle^. but to brain fag. It appears that tiie particular part of the brain which controls special combinations of muscle
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  • 232 11 JAPANESE PARASITES CAPTURED Leaders of Traffic in Women. A Nagasaki telegram reports that on ar-; rival of the N. Y. K. liner Yamaguchimaru at that port on the sth instnut from Shanghai, two Japanese named Kokichi Yada, aged 39, of Kagawa prefecture, aud Ichiro Hasegawa, aged 31, of Yokohama, were
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  • 360 11 The number of phantom ships is legion. Several of the vessels which were wrecked in close proximity to the scene of rhe Titanic disaster are oven said to re-appear in the *arae spot on certain occasions. The Packet Light is one of these, and the story
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  • 187 11 Statistics of tne increase in the yield of farm crops achieved in Germany in tho last quarter century are given in the National by Truman G. Palmer, who has spent the last ten years in studying Euro-j ipean agricultural methods. The figures! show that Germany has
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    • 259 11 ■uim-iALwivt PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ (ROYAL DUTCH PACKET COMPANY.) Ukb.r Contrxot w, TH THE NRTH KLANDB Ikdia m^MmmMm. AieiU at Singapore slips Aaeicy. it... 2-3 Cllyer Ouay. MAIL TABLE-OCTOBER BTH TO 14TH, 1912. Th unde "°entioned date, aa- only approximate. From Expected. Will be Despatched for— daUin 8 Date. 'an der Capellen
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    • 592 11 PROFESSIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT. DR. W. R. LAMB. American Oculist and Optician, Specialist in Examining the Eye and correcting defective vision wishes to announce to the citizens of .Singapore and vicinity tha? he may be consulted r *f.°: 2 Adelphi Hotel, till September 27th, inclusive. Ha has unexcelled facilities for examining the
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    • 145 12 1 Martell's Brandy. inr i JjSpiSk n England more Martell's Three JtWrxliX Star Brandy is sold than any mfmfm/mWlMfll \jm\ fllM_jjlll n London more than three times the quantity of Martell's is S^^^Rl so,d than any other Brand of ■jl j |3 I Sole Agents for Straits Settlements. F.M.S. ill
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