Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 1 October 1914

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 227 VOL. LXXII. THURSDAY. Ist OCTOBER, 1914 PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 970 1 n-rr i»ni IF Xgv W±Nr TO SA-7/P,[ BUY or SELL RUB B ER[ 1 OB TO i FORWARD GOODS TO ANY PART or thb WORLD go to ALLEN DENNYS Co., I 7. UMIOM BTRKKf. THE PINANG GAZETTE/’ 4 8 jTfe T/1 IAI 9 TI" I FOB MOTOB CAB INSURANCE t-
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    • 64 1 iQCDaaoßaaaaDHDQDDDaaEliniDa n FOR $3O U can have the “Pinang g 9 X Gasette posted every day o 1 for a whole year io your address. a (LOCAL SUBSCRIPTION, $27). Q g Proportionate Quarterly and q 5 Half-yearly rates. g a Subscriptions are payable in advance and remittances should S b«
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  • 1290 2 TOWN DEVASTATED—STREETS FILLED WITH CORPSES, A Paris message of August 26, stated Mons is surrounded by canals in every direction, except in the south, where there are vast woods. All the bridges that had not been blown up were commanded by machine-guns and barricaded by the
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  • 283 2 To the German Kaiser. Amazing Monarch I who at various times, Posing as Europe’s self-appointed saviour, Afforded copy for our ribald rhymes By your behaviour We nursed no malice nay, <e thanked jou much Because your head-piece, swoPen like a tumour, Lent to a dullish world the needed
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 1113 2 BILLET WANTED NOTICE. BY A YOUNG CHINESE well up in General Office Work and Accounts. w Son Ltd., LeleesCapable of taking charge of a group of ter> England, the sole makers and Estate Accounts. Copies of testimonials proprietors of the celebrated will be sent nn annlication to “RED BOOT" Chop
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    • 246 2 I MUM■■■■MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM HIBBERT, WOODROFFE M a GO., LTD., M jl WHOLESALE AND RETAIL J Wine and Spirit Merchants, i I AGENTS FOR PENANG: M SELLAR, MURRAY Co., I M PENANG. i 1 WHERE TO STAY THE NEW SEA VIEW HOTEL 6, Farquhar Street, Penang. WITHIN FIVI MINUTM OF THI HARBOHR,
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  • 668 3 FAVOURABLE SITUATION IN MIDDLE EAST. Reference was made in this column a week ago to the greatly-improved position of plantation companies in the Middle East which followed tKe support given by the Governments and banks, says a Home financial paper. According to later private cables, of WMtfhT am informed,
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  • 197 3 Messrs. Guthrie Co’s weekly rubber report dated Tuesday, September 29th, states The improved demand noted in our last report was maintained to-day and prices again improved materially, advances of from $2 to $6 being recorded. Of 85 tons catalogued about 55 tons were sold. The lots withdrawn from
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  • 790 3 Financier,” Aug. 27. AND ALIEN ENEMIES. The Rubber Growers A-sociation having been asked by its congruent companies to obtain advice as to ho* they shou’d d al with trandets of shares and dividends in thd present circumstances, has sought the opinion of ecu >sel on a number of
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  • TIN.
    • 579 3 A little business is said to have pa-sed in standard tin at about 1382. to 142 Z-, says the “Ironmonger of Aug. 29, bu these dealings are entirely a matter of priva e negotiation. A better business has passed with the consuming trades; but even this has
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    • 417 3 Great interest in commercial circles in the Philippines, says Mr. J. F. Boomer, U S. correspondent at Manila, Philippine Islands, is being shown in a newly-designed oven for drying copra that is just being tried. The apparatus is the work of an American mechanical engineer
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  • 852 3 The position with regard to the transport of produce from tropical plantations in the Middle East has not materially changed during the past few days, says the India Rubber Journal ”of Aug, 22. It is true that there has been fighting in the Mediterranean and
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  • 516 3 MR. BELLOC’S ALTERNATIVE PREDICTIONS. In Nash’s Magazine Mr. Hillaire Bel'oc has an article discussing the possible consequences of Germany’s being victorious or defeated. It is not to be presumed, he says, that in case of victory Germany would burden herself with more European territory. She
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  • 311 3 To understand this war you may forget all about Hohenzollern and Hapsburg, Slav and Teuton, Servia and the Archduke Francis Ferdinand. A monarch applied the match, but the institution of monarchy had little to do with it. Republican France contributed as much to the conflagration as
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  • 469 3 FOR GENERAL SERVICE AT HOME.AND ABROAD. The War Office has issued the following It has been freely stated in the press during the last few days that Lord Kitchener’s new army of 100,000 men is to be trained as a R°gular Army for home defence. This is
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 155 3 One of the fallacies—the I have to pay for the Advertisements fallacy. You pay for them just precisely as you pay for the rent of the shop you deal with—no more, no less. A shop in a crowded thoroughfare pays a higher rent than one in a deserted street, but
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    • 398 3 A Line on Belting. When the average man enters a Sawmill or Factory and sees the numerous Pulleys and Belts going round does it ever occur to him to think of the science and care necessary to produce the Belts which transmit the powers to the various Machines If of
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous

  • 1588 4 A PERSONAL IMPRESSION. In view of the interest which has been aroused in Germany’s Chinese possession, Kiao-chow, in consequence of the Japanese ultimatum requesting the German Government to surrender the Colony to Japan, we may with profit quote sume of the impressions of a personal visit as
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  • 104 4 A very successful function took place in the Y.M.C.A. grounds at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday evening when the foundation stone of the new building was bid by the Hou. Mr. E. G. Broadrick, Brifsh Resident, Selangor. Mr. J. Craig, President, in welcoming the Resident mentioned that after
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  • 1675 4 “WHITEHEADS” AND BLACKHEADS.” For those who can look upon the war with a dispassionate and analytical eye there is no more interesting problem to be solved than the qu-sdon of the value of the torpedo. Only a few weeks before the outbreak of war the country was startled
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  • 200 4 Rules as to Prize Courts. The following proclamation by his Excellency the Governor (Sir Arthur Young, k.o.m Q.), is issued as a Government Gaz tte Extraordinary Whereas the Rules hereinafter set out were made by His Majesty in Council in pursuance of the Prize Courts Act 1894 on the
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  • 1187 4 BLOWS FROM A GIANT AXE.” Writing from Paris on Aug. 24th, when the Allies fell back, Mr. Hamilton Fyfe said:— Back in Pari», I find Parisians rather gloomy. They have hid the first rea’ly bad news of the war. Gradually the facts of the reverse in
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  • 233 4 Penang, October 1. Beef— cte Soup per catty 15 Roast 30 Steaks 30 Stew or Curry Meat 20 Rump Steak 30 Ox Tail each 35 Tongue 50 Feet 20 Heart 45 Liver per catty 40 Pork— Pork per catty 36 Pig’s Head 22 Feet 26 Tongue 40 Mutton
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 85 4 Advertising spells things beautifulthings useful, things comfortable. Advertisers are leaders in taste —they are educators. They gather from the far corners of the earth, the products of the loom, the farm, the mine, the studio, and the workshop, and retail them for the benefit of the community. They inspire the
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    • 42 4 INVALUABLE for your HEALTH'S* SAKE. Esstnce or Fluid Eitraet of RED JAIIICI Pronounced by the HIGHEST MEDICAL AUTHORITIES GmnnECQBiQ Tho SAFEST and most RELIABLE Remedy for tobP ‘debluty s HAS OVER 75 YEARS* WORLD-WIDE REPUTAiION. SOLD BY nt Cctrge T»wa sisieaswj. ul
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  • 802 5 INFLUENCE OF THE SERBS. It has become almost an accepted axiom of war that whatever happens Austria is almost sure to suffer defeat. In the excitement and uncertainty of the great struggle almost at our gates we are apt to overlook the immense importance of tbe great
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  • 1108 5 NEW PAGES OF HAPS BURG FAMILY HISTORY. Rudy never committed suicide 1 Rudy was murdered These were my mother’s words.” That is an extract, referring to the Crown Prince Rud >lf, from a book which Cas-ell’s publish, The Secret of an Empress,” by Countess Zanardi Landi. The
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  • 115 5 Tkarsday, October I. Cafe Chantant, Town Hall, 9.15 p.m. Band, Golf Club, 6 p.m. High Water 10.52 a.m. and 11.32 p.m. Low Water 5.18 a.m. and 5.24 p.m. Straits Cinematograph, Penang Road George Town Cinematograph, Kuala Kangsar Road. Friday, October 2. St. George’s Church, Special Service, 6
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 143 5 Beware of that chill which strikes you in the loins if disregarded, serious disease will follow. A dose or two of Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, taken immediately the trouble is noticed, throws off all bad symptoms. Never be without it in the home. Sold everywhere. 80 cents a bottle. I'H
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    • 146 5 NOTICE; P. A. M. A REGISTER dT Estate Managers and Assistants has been started by this Association. Employers having vacant posts to fill and employees seeking engagement, are requested to communicate with the undersigned. By Order, H. C. E. ZACHARIAS, Secretary, Planters' Association oj Malaya. Kuala Lumpur, August Ist, 1914.
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  • 1169 6 It is with the greatest regret that we feel compelled to suggest that one must accept with the greatest resetve the story of the Commander of the Emden sending wireless messages to British ships io the Bay of Bengal asking “if they had heard of
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  • FIGHTING IN FRANCE
    • 578 6 GERMAN RIGHT WING’S TASK. A CIRCUMSTANTIAL REPORT.” [Copyright Telegram] (By Submarine Telegraph.) Recd. Sept. 30, 9-21 p.m. The Press Bureau says there is practically no change in the situation. The Allied left wing have had some very heavy fighting, but are well holding their own. NO CHANGE.
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    • 176 6 .—Reuter. GERMAN DEFENSIVE POSITION. THOUGHT OUT BEFORE THE WAR, [Copyright Telbsbam.] (By Submarine Telegraph.) Re cd. Sept. 30, 11-30 p.m A British headquarters* account says there is no doubt the position on the Aisne was not hastily selected by the German Staff, after the retreat began. From
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  • 70 6 INUNDATIONS AFTER CLOUDBURST. \From Our Own Correspondent.] Ipob, October 1. Five landslips took place on the Taiping pass section of the railway between Bukit Gantang and Padang Rengas yesterday afternoon. They occurred after a cloud burst and for a considerable stretch the line was inundated, at
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  • 47 6 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore October 1. Private letters from Home state that >ir George Murray’s second son is serving at the front with the 19 th Hussars. Mr. Irving, of Klang, has joined the Honourable Artillery Company. The Belgian Relief Fund totals $4,379.
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    • 379 6 i For Defciiity A re-urosi Colonel of the Indian Medical Service g= writes Dear Sirs—Following repeated attacks of influenza and debility due to long g service in the tropics. I was left with obstinate chronic bronchitis, severe flatulent g S dyspepsia and a general neurasthenia, which took the form of
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    • 33 6 THE CRAG HOTEL, “SANATORIUM” PENANG HILL Completely Renovated. An hour and 10 minutes from the E. a HOTEL Chairs and Coolies always in readiness at the foot of the Hill. Sarkies Brothcrs, Proprietors.
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  • 33 6 DEATH. Maxwell.-— Died of wounds received on the 20th September, Captain Peter Benson Maxwell (Pat), East Yorkshire Regiment, youngest son of the late Sir W. E. Maxwell. [By cable. No further details available].
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  • STOP PRESS WAR NEWS.
    • 191 7 PROTEST TO AUSTRIA. [Copyright Telegram.] (By Submarine Telegraph.) Recd. Oct. 1, 2 p.m. Two Italian Gibing smacks have been blown up by floating mines in the Adriatic, off the Italian coast. Eighteen men of the crews were killed. Italy his made serious repreientatious to Austria
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    • 178 7 —Reuter. EARL ROBERTS—B 2. [Copyright Telegram.] (By Submarine Telegraph.) Recd. Oct. 1, 1-25 p.m. Earl Roberts has been the recipient of universal congratulations on his 82nd birthday. Notwithstanding has age he is hard at work every day encouraging the recruiting of fresh troops,inspecting new regiments, and adding
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  • 63 7 THE LATEST DIVIDENDS. [P. G. Special Cable.] [Copyright Telegram.] (By Submarine Telegraph.) London, September 29. The following dividends are announced Bukit Lantang 20 per cent. to reserve £3,030. Inch Kenneth 10 per cent.; to reserve £2,000. Lankat (Sumatra) 5 per cent. London, September 30. Linggi interim 15
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  • WAR ITEMS.
    • 38 7 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, October 1. The French Consular telegram states The position is unchanged. All attacks have been repulsed. The Kaiser has gnne to E<st Prussia, where there are now 22 German Army corps.
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    • 123 7 Paris, Sept. 27. An official communique says The battle continued yesterday on our left wing, where we made great progress between the rivers Oise and Somme and to the north of the Somme. We have repulsed furious attacks between Rheims and the Souainand; a vigorous offensive of
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    • 99 7 A Straits Settlemen’s Government Gazette Extraordinary contains the following With reference to Notification No. 1905, published in a “Gazette Extraordinary” on the 17th September, 1914, it is hereby notified that by a Proclamation dated the 21st idem His Majesty the King has been pleased to declare that the following
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    • 82 7 According to a statement published in the Swiss Press a Swiss doctor found no difference in the nature of the wounds of the wounds of the French and Germans in the military hospita's of St Ludwig and Enningen. There were uo signs of dumdum bullets. A statement
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    • 77 7 A F.M.S. Government Gazette Extraordinary conains the following All officers of the Reserve of Officers or the Special Reserve of Officers not in Government employment should return to the United Kingdom forthwith and report themselves at the War Office. A report of departure, giving the name
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    • 52 7 An official telegram from the Foreign Office to H.B M.’s Legation, Bangkok, states The British Admiralty announce that the Germans have already sunk H.M.S. Warrior three times since the beginning of the war. It is suggested that another vessel should be selected for the
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    • 59 7 The Russian General Staff announced on September 18th that on the front in East Prussia General Rennenkampt yesterday definitely arrested a general offensive movement. At several points the Germans are falling back and changing their positions. On the Austrian front the pursuit of enemy continues. The Russians
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  • 359 7 BALL SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR WAR FUND. A meeting of the Penang St. And ew s Society was held at the Town Hall, last evening, for the pu-pose of re-consi if ring the question of holding a ball on St. Andrew’s Day and also to consider what steps should be
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  • 412 7 CORONER’S ENQUIRY. In the Coroner’s Court, Penang, this morc.ing, an enquiry was held by Mr. V. G Ezechiel touching the death of Tan Gat, a Chinaman whose age was stitel to be 77 years. The first witness was Ramsami, Inspector of George Town Tramways, who stated that
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  • 71 7 The Hon. Treasurer sends us tie following further contribution to the above Fund, forwarded to the Chartered Bank, Penang. Balance Sept. 29 $9,203.35 O; B. Pike 50.00 Mrs. G. S. Evans 30.00 Balance on Sept. 30 $9,283.35 Mrs. F. Dale Rees and Mrs.
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  • 1136 7 THE HALF YEARLY MEETING. The half-yearly meeting of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce was held on Monday at the Exchange, the President (the Hon. Mr. C. W. Darbishire) in the chair. At the outset, the President made feeling reference to the death, with tragic suddenness, of
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  • 421 7 A DANGEROUS GANG. A correspondent at Bentong sends the Malay Mail the following additional particulars of the gang robbery on August 26tb, at the bungalow of Mr. Greensill, manager of the Sungei Gau tin mine, He writes:— On the morning of the 26th at 8 a.m. the bungalow
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  • 335 7 At the present moment it is German accounts that are our main obstacle to liquidation and renewal of business. Not only were foreign stocks of all kinds dumped on us, but huge speculative accounts were left open which cannot now be settled until the close of the
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 103 7 THE CONTENTS BILL. Page 2.—The Conflict at Charleroi. Page 3. Eastern Crops and the War; The Results of the War Tin New Army’s Purpose Rubber Companies Rubber. Page 4 —The Torpedo; Glimpse of Tsingtau; Nerve Strain Under ShellFire Proclamation. Page s.—Eastern Theatre Victories A Tragic Monarch The Week’s Events. Page
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    • 549 7 Mr. Frank H. Baker. P. P. c. Z—MOTOR CYCLE FOR SALE. RUDGE MULTI 3| H.P., in very good condition. Apply Police Office, Butterworth. FOR SALJ&. POLO PONY, Bay Australian Gelding, .about 14.1 hands, fast and played regularly. Can be seen and tried at Singapore by appointment. Owner going home. What
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  • 843 8 SYMPATHY FOR ENGLAND. An intervi w with the German Chancellor, inviting the verdict of America regarding Germany’s part in the present straggle, is prin ed and attracts much comment, cabled a New York correspondent on August 17th. Officially it is impossible for any member
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  • 988 8 THEIR EXTENDED DURATION; We must not expect that the "big battle” which is now beginning on the Belgian and French frontiers will be finished either in one day or in several, writes the Military correspondent of a Home paper on August 15. One of the great changes made
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  • 895 9 EVENTS OF A WEEK. Sept. 19.—The German Ambassador at Washington, interrogated by President Wilson, says that Germany is prepared to call the war a draw and make peace on the basis that Germany in Europe is not dismembered. An official statement anent the battle of the
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  • 638 9 WHOLESALERS AND RETAILERS. The question of conserving the drugeupply.owing to the increased demand which may be caused for medicines and to the disorganisation of the supply of raw materials which come from abroad, is a serious problem with the wholesale house», said the “Chemist and
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 71 9 TCT LET. PREMISES in Penang Road near E. 0. Hotel. Suitable for shophouses or workshops. Apply to H. A. NEUBRONNER, 33, Beach Street. advertising! IS TO COMMERCE j WHAT THE POSTAL SYSTEM IS TO THE COMMUNITY It is a acieutifiu time-saving device which promotes the spread of knowledge and the
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    • 189 9 Poor Health To face the dangers of weakness and disease with a weakened constitution, is to liken oneself to the captain who sails a disabled ship to meet the perils of the storm. In both cases disaster must surely follow. Failing appetite, nervous irritability, loss of weight and lack of
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    • 212 9 TAAOB* Cod Liver Oil H a with 1 kSmI Malt Extract i Will protect you against weakness and loss of s> SSi flesh. 3 a tie sure I Bot Its of two sizes, of II Chemists and Stores it ic I Burroughs Wellcome Co. KEPLER* I London BuP.OU.-S WtL.COMC.fpn i|
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 295 9 TOWN HALL PENANG. Mr. Mrs. Wright-Motion’s CAFE CHANTANT To-Night and 3rd October, 1914, AT 9-15 P.H. PUHCTUAILY. The entire proceeds will be given to the Prince of Wales’ War Fund. Bar Open in Hall. Town Band. Smoking. ADMISSION $l-00. Bar Tickets $l-00 per book’of 10. Programmes IO cts. each. A
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  • 537 10 HUGE TRANSFER TO STARS AND STRIPES. A Reuter teleeram from New York says that the United Statts Sttel Corpoiation, the Standard Oil Company, and the United Fruit Company decided to place their vessels under the American flag under the recently enacted law permitting foreignbuilt vessels to be
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  • 377 10 Gum Benjamin,” or benzoin, is the aromatic resin of the Styrax benzoin of the order Styraceae, a common tree of the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, says the Journal of the Society of Arts. The Malay-name of the product is Keminiyan.” In trade
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  • 308 10 .—Ex. The revision of the American tariff seems to have injuriously affected Philippine trade, while the abolition uf export duties has bad to be met by drastic economies in all branches of the Insular Government service Whether this game is worth the candle remains to be seen.
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 128 10 Don’t Grin and Bear it Tosdug and turning on a bed of woe, do you rise with an aching, painful back that unfits you for work or pleasure Backache is serious. It sh uld not be neglected. You should not “grin and bear it." STOP IT by rubbing in Little’»
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  • 900 11 AN AMERICAN OPINION. The impressions of a distinguished American journalist, Mr. Herbert Kaufman, who was in London at the outbreak of wir, are a remarkable tribute to the temper of the British people at a time of a national crisis. Mr. Kaufman, who sent them to The
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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