Weekly Sun, 12 October 1912
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Title Section17 1912-10-12 1 The Weekly Sun. BREAKER STRAITS SETTLEMENTS EDITION. 126. CROSS STREET. SINGAPORE. PRICE SINGAPORE. sXTTRprr-lir?T7^^ 10L2 NO. 111.17 words
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Advertisement587 1912-10-12 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.587 words
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Advertisement24 1912-10-12 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^ j24 words
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Article620 1912-10-12 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 hope620 words
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Article160 1912-10-12 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 veryHamilton Review - 160 words
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Advertisement536 1912-10-12 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 National536 words
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Advertisement275 1912-10-12 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 theirjunique275 words
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Article3349 1912-10-12 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 with3,349 words
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Advertisement57 1912-10-12 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 RUBBER57 words
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Article247 1912-10-12 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 to247 words
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Article462 1912-10-12 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 reared462 words
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Article485 1912-10-12 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,485 words
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Article82 1912-10-12 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 believed82 words
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Advertisement24 1912-10-12 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.24 words
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Advertisement332 1912-10-12 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.332 words
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Advertisement80 1912-10-12 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 name80 words
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Advertisement163 1912-10-12 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,163 words
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Article45 1912-10-12 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.45 words
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Article107 1912-10-12 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 at107 words
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Article687 1912-10-12 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 smoke687 words
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Article152 1912-10-12 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 on152 words
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Article141 1912-10-12 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 the141 words
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Article259 1912-10-12 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 timber259 words
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Article314 1912-10-12 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 and314 words
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Article201 1912-10-12 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 ago201 words
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Article103 1912-10-12 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,103 words
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Article102 1912-10-12 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,102 words
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Article86 1912-10-12 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,; and86 words
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Article662 1912-10-12 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 before662 words
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Article75 1912-10-12 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 46175 words
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Article65 1912-10-12 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 of65 words
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Article715 1912-10-12 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 has715 words
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455 1912-10-12 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 Moore455 words
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Article278 1912-10-12 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 Committee278 words
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Article227 1912-10-12 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 is227 words
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Article576 1912-10-12 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 of576 words
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Advertisement34 1912-10-12 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*34 words
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Article442 1912-10-12 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 to442 words
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Article220 1912-10-12 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 in220 words
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Article193 1912-10-12 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 downpour193 words
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Advertisement382 1912-10-12 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 A382 words
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Article1579 1912-10-12 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 the1,579 words
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117 1912-10-12 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 me117 words
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Article272 1912-10-12 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.272 words
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Article202 1912-10-12 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 by202 words
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Advertisement18 1912-10-12 8 Efltsasxt our Adv ert«siog repre- j I I CC sentative wi be pleased I/|£IQC to submit Up-to-date litvCld18 words
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Advertisement320 1912-10-12 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 for320 words
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Advertisement162 1912-10-12 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 B162 words
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Advertisement245 1912-10-12 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, steady245 words
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1173 1912-10-12 9 Danny Maher - 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 in1,173 words
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Article157 1912-10-12 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 Egyptions157 words
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Advertisement343 1912-10-12 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|343 words
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Advertisement82 1912-10-12 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 i82 words
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Advertisement158 1912-10-12 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 ,h158 words
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Article1166 1912-10-12 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 inN.C. Daily News - 1,166 words
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393 1912-10-12 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 knownCurrent Literature - 393 words
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Article252 1912-10-12 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 ofConsular Report - 252 words
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Article188 1912-10-12 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 farmersLondon Globe - 188 words
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Article153 1912-10-12 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 muscleChicago Tribune - 153 words
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Advertisement331 1912-10-12 10 PROTOS MOTOR CARS. HIGHCLASS WORKMANSHIP. STRONG CONSTRUCTIONVERY SILENT RUNNING. Largely used by Royalty. aaaaa«amaaß«M9*aa«a*vaaaaaaaaaaßVß«aßaaaaaaaaaßaaaa**aaaaaßMaßMß^ai Cars in Stocks I Torpedo and Half-Torpedo Double Phaeton Car* to seat 5 and 7 persons. All finished in theibest style. aS a* I*'+*1 r(K t m s&^~j*l£[j/BSamimt3Smmtmga&^ '^ftvKF m *i^ Vtix'-'^-T^Ba^evri^l^a^^ *f. 7f>Q ,t^aaarJ»-> i£^lp^SSasr/saw^aaaaaaaal331 words
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Article232 1912-10-12 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, were232 words
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Article360 1912-10-12 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 storyLondon Standard - 360 words
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Article187 1912-10-12 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 has187 words
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Advertisement259 1912-10-12 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 Capellen259 words
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Advertisement592 1912-10-12 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 the592 words
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Advertisement145 1912-10-12 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. ill145 words
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