The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 12 September 1908

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  • 16 1 THE Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. TEN CENTS SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1908. NO. 6,393
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  • 150 1 A further official report, of the Registrar of Imports and Exports, shows the evil effects of the Shipping Conferences Page 7. At the Municipal Commission meeting yesterday the subjects of milk contamination and public analyses were variously commented on Page 12. The Legislative Council passed the Tamil
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  • 864 1 (Fob Thosi who Know it.) To the average Britisher there is perhaps no keener delight than the first attempt to learn another language than his own. In his school and collepe-d; ys he mtu rally has lessons in Lilin, possibly Greek, ani liter a little French: and
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 454 1 I The Great Eastern Life Assurance Co, I LIMITED. I Authorized Qapital $250,000. I HEAD OFFICE, SINGAPORE, S.S. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Chairman. G. A. DERB* Messrs. .rrick ,v Co. Vice Chairman. Ad. ASMUS, Esq., Messrs- Behn Meyer Co.. Ltd. Managing Director. A. H. Fair. Esq. Chief Medical Officer. Peter Fowlie,
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    • 485 1 Dr. W. R. L.TLMB, AMERICAN OCULIST AND OPTICIAN, Desires to announce to the citizens of Singapore that he has opened an office, corner of St. Andrews-rd and High-st (Grand Hotel de l'Europe), where he will remain until September 18th a short yet sufficient time to give those requiring his services
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    • 245 1 Entertainments. A LH AM BRA. TO-NICHT. DIEPPE CIRCUIT. JULY 1908. The MOST REALISTIC motor CAR RACE ever produced SYNOPSIS OF EVENTS.— The CUPS FIRST prize for small ears— THE BRIDGE at d' Am-ourt— ACCIDENT to the car driven by CISSAE. his death— At LONDINIERES turning— AT EU— The winnet GUYOT
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    • 79 1 LATEST ADVERTISEMENTS. Have you seen the Roneo Page 7. Medical remedies on page 3 and on page 9. Powell Co. auction furniture at Grange-rd next Saturday, and this Saturday, furniture at their sales rooms. Page 5. The Taroba on the berth for Penang on Thursday, and the Muttra on Friday
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 358 1 THE WEEK. Saturday, 3 2th Bigh Water.— ll.s2 a., 11.45 p S.E.E. Monthly Shoot, 2.30 p S.C.C. Cricket Tournament. Lodge Zetland, 8 30 p Sunday, 13th High Wuter:— 0 18 13th after Trinity. Sw. Club launches 9, 10, 11 a 2.30 3.20 p Monday, 14th High Water.— o.2B a., 0.43
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  • 548 2 W. P. Biriiifr, K.G A., was pi on sbk iisit on the V»:h instant. F air Dutch M klaj policemen and a coroiwlad a priionei in Sarawak and put two paiis of handcuffs on him. (>n the > Dutch territory the prisoner ••uraed to Kaching and *vas irrestel by the
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 233 2 IVIICHtLIN -P r^ ces Reduced The constant extension of our works combined with improved methods of manufacture, has enabled us to lower the cost of production. ie iwl Hti I 8 1^ s t^ ie re tna^ w i RS a^ tk e big races. TARGA FLORIO (277 miles) First
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    • 645 2 NOTIQES. NOTICE. At the Furniture sale to held at Xo. 2 Niven Road, will be included a four-seated Victoria, a pony and an Office Gharry. G. A. FERNANDEZ Co., Auctioneers Sept 9 SHORTHAND TYPEWRITING Absolute secrecy. Terms moderate. Mrs. F. COOPER-ABBS, Cavenagh Bridge Buildings and Hotel de L'Sorope. TO PARENTS.
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    • 505 2 INSURANGES. NEW ZEALAND INSURANCE CO,, LTD. 1 FIRE ATO MAKIXE. YANG-TSZE INSURANCE ASSOC. LTD. MAEINE. CHINA F,RE INSURANCE CO., LTD. FIRE. Fire and Marine Risks of every description underwritten at lowest cum-m riftoi Adamson Gilfillan Co. Ltd. General Agents A J. SCANDEETT Manager Insurance Department. SOUTH BRITISH INSURANCE CO., Ltd.
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    • 605 2 BANKS. Hongkong Shangiiai Eanj^-p Corporation. Allvr I ,000,000 Him lleserve £1 5,000,000 ver ffmrm < ,x) j 29 »°00,000 -:servi Liability PKUPEI.TOBB $15,000,000 KT OF DIEBOTORS. Hon Mr. W J. Qtmoi T Ckaiksum h. G. Baeeett, Ksy. Helms, Esq G. Feikfland, K R. Sh»wan Eaq' C. S. Gcbba i L6^.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 131 2 SUNDAY CHURCE SERVICES, St. Andrew's Cathedral Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity. 7 am 'ms and Litany. 7.45 ara Holy Communion (Chor Sunday School. pm Bible Classes (Adults). roi Evensong and Sermon. St. Matthew's, Sepoy Links. 11 15 am Foo Chow Service. 3,-xO pm Sunday School. pci Evensong and Sermon. Pe-insep Street
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  • 797 3 WEIRD INVENTION BY A SCOTSMAN. AmVSTSG IXTERVIKW wnn THE I.NvF.NTOR OF GYPwOI'T" We are now getting really excited over Um business of Flying. Waal mtk Um Wrights, the Zeppelins, the Cod}.-,, the War Office, and all the rest cf them, the of the air is
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  • 63 3 Infant Mortality. ittention of the Town Council at JoTransvaal, was last year directed to the fact that out of eighty-four infants who dit»l in December, forty-four of them had died of v. An investigation with a of tracing the source of the disease was auti I'nder the best of conditions
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  • 385 3 Bishop Awdrej in the letter to the 7 we have already al!u Jed to, fi ids no warrant for the least tear, that Japau, pre-occupied in Manchuria and KV»mea, cm have the least design upon the Philippines. The same thesis holds good as regards Australia,
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  • 448 3 As the whole cf the shipping to and from the Far Ea;-t passes S^cotra and Guardafui these observations in tbe Times of Ceylon are cot without interest There is not at present a lighthouse on either Cape Guardafui or Socotra. but the proposal of
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  • 187 3 It hardly seems possible that a profitable sul>stitu f e could be found for the wood in foreign- made matches, but from the Timber Trades Review we learn that surya grass is being used at Sholapur for this purpose, app.nently to advantage. A chaff -cutter, set
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 632 3 SEEMED TOO ILL TO LIVE. Another Malaria Victim's Life Saved by DR. WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS. L '~*out IS months ago I began to suffer from Malarial Fever," said Mr. M. Danker, an assistant at the Durian Daun Hospital, Malacca. "As time w r ent on the attacks became worse and
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    • 490 3 DRINK T A WC! A Ml The purest and most palatable TABLE WATER The difference in cost between Tansan Manufactured Waters is not great whereas the beneficial properties of the former as a beverage in the Tropics cannot be overestimated. SOLE IMPORTERS, Borneo Company, Ltd., SINGAPORE. (Bulmer's best Herefordshire) Guaranteed
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    • 559 3 THE Singapore Free Press. Morning Daily. To Our Readers The Singapore Free Press is now a Morning Daily, and is on sale at depots, from an early hour each morning (Sundays excepted). Cash price Ten Cents a copy. Subscribers' copies will be delivered at their private residences, (or town offices
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  • 1001 4 The conversation amongst tlie group of j atjrieu'tural labourers who were taking their ■iddajmaa] outside the little wayside inn, bad drifted round to the subject of work, utd the MB6ot MMOHB9& n. broiling hot day. "On the t." remarked the ex-soldier, mopping his weather-worn face with a
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  • 100 4 F irther reports have been received in Yoko-•A-ith regard to the movements of the can Fleet. As already reported, the 11 arrive at Yokohama on Oct. 17th, and will stay till the 24th. Subsequently the n\*et will be divided into squadrons, namely the
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  • 601 4 Seventy-Six Men Entombed. London, August 19th. A colliery disaster, accompanied, it is feared, by a terrible death roll, occurred in Lancashire yesterday. The BOene of the catastrophe was the No. 1 Maypole mine at Abraiu, near Wi^an, where an explosion besides wrecking the workings of the
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  • 263 4 Ceylon rubber producers will be interested in a comment which appears in the Board of Trade Jonrnal upon the trade in Brazil. Referring to th9 ready disposition shown among British capitalists to invest in the acquisition of Brazilian rubber-producing properties, the Journal shows that investments of this
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  • 46 4 Five hundred cases of typhoid fever were treated with glycogen during the December 1903 epidemic in western Pennsylvania and Dr. A W. Hill, who was especially commissioned to see that glycogen was supplied to the public hospitals during this epidemic. received abundant testimony to its value.
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  • 734 4 STEAMERS. Giving port of departure, arui (where ~knovm date due Jiere, arid name of Agents. Airlie, Sydney, Oct 23 Boi Ajax, China, Sept 13 Manefield. Alcinous, Liverpool, Sept 1 1 Mansfield. Ambria. Hongkong, Sept 26 Behu Meyer. Antung, Hongkong, Sept Behn Meyer. Antilochus, Liverpool, Sept 21 Mansfield. Arconia,
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  • 298 4 The pr led are those current at Clyd- At tht moy he small variation*. Singapore, Tth September, 1 Beans, Long per catty I do. French do Beef per lb. Beef Steak do. 20 Bean Sprouts per catty Bamboo Sprouts do. Bla< do. ]i Brinjals do. 4 Cu
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 265 4 Passengers for the Straits. Per P Oceana. due Sept. 11.— Mr F. W. King, Mr F. L. Okell, Ml bertson. M rT.L. Crowther, Mr and Mir Pett, Mr J. Dykes To Pen a; M I Per P& O Sumatra, due Sept 1 7— Mi iowan, Capt and I. Stock Mrs
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  • 2088 5 libelli. J ivkn u.. M■. 863 of Mr \Y. Churchill and his fiancee, Hiai dement ier. The G. rernmemi naj be Home Rulers, but in the nMrtttn or natrinoni they m meed determined Unionists there r -v- the Lord Chancellor to bes»in with, who took a
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 319 5 nUGTIONS. AUCTION SALE OF Unserviceable Police Stores, Unclaimed and Confiscated property and Intestate Estate Property &c. (By order of the Chief Police Officer.) TO BE HELD AT THE Central Police Station, South Bridge Road. On Iri::ay. 25th September at 2-30 p.m. For particulars, see catalogues. POWELL Co.. Auctioneers. Sept 11
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    • 572 5 mjQTIONS. This Day, Saturday, at II am. AUCTION SALE CF Valuable Household Furniture, Good Toned Cottage Piano &c. AT POWELL GO'S SALEROOM POWELL Co., Auctioneers. Sept 8 13.9 AUCTION SALE OF Va'uabie Household Furniture &c. AT No. 35. GRANGE ROAD. On Saturday, 19th September, at 2-30 pm. Rattan drawing-room furniture
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    • 651 5 tr.d:(: j*l»lrs'i Imaek torn v- N\ !fm l Singapore Kumpers Co. Kuala Lumpur Federated Engineering Co. HOTEL de la PAIX, SINGAPORE. This Old Established House having been thoroughly Repaired and Renovated is NOW REOPENED. I Good Accommodation for Boarders Passengers. A Speciality is made of the Table, and only Wines,
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  • Domestic Occurrences.
    • 32 6 KERB. Aug. 16, at Edinburgh, the wife of J. KERB (formerly of Singapore), of a son. swart.— Aug. 18, at Hoylake, Cheshire, wife of Gershom Stewart, formerly of Hong Kong, son.
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    • 18 6 Smith— KviJF.Kn.— Aug. 15, at Walthamstow, Albert, son of i'.C. Smith, of Yokohama, to Lilian Florence Kybebd.
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    • 26 6 Andeeson. -Aug. 16, at 1 Id, Ed/th FANNY, widow of the late A. Anderson, of China, aged 57. Bulkeley-Johnson.— Aug. 17, at Melrose, Mrs. Bulkeley-Johnson.
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  • 1424 6 The Singapore Free Press. Saturday, Sept. 12, 1908. ■nintain, To judge by the home papers received by the last couple of mails one subject that is rapidly catching on to the attention of the public is the use of oxygen as a stimulus and a pick-me-up. So far as can
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  • 525 6 Tha Coioniil y >w wi:h His Excellency the Governor and M lerscn, left at 1 pui. yesfa 1. Sir John Anderson was accompanied by his A. I>. C. and P. S. and by Mr T. H. Raid. Capt. Cecil Drvreli, of the West Yorks, is appointed to be a Brigade
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 194 6 l 4 dozen Quarts. In Cases of g dozen pints MPLES FROM: I WALK OVER Q WALK OVER! SOLE AGENTS H) j -J SOLE AGENTS! ip^r P^ir v> ppr Pair M PERSONAL INSPECTION. Will convince yen of the Wisdom of Wearing! l¥ ILK OVER SHOES. Ji I^*^ 31 buy inferior
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    • 365 6 I Adapted to the Morning and 1 to the Afternoon Li^ht. They are the Largest, Coolest and best Equipped Studioa in the Colony, and are situated in the most picturesque part of the town, adjoining Government House Domain Moreover, we possess in a high degree all the essentials that go
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  • 9 7 rriage on idition is reported to »>.«^
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  • 5 7 Vincei [nought !>
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  • 154 7 GLASGOW'S UNEMPLOYED. A MIDNIGHT MARCH And a Sharp Reception. By Submari: > T ..a Reut The unemployed <»f Glasgow carried out :heir threatenei midnight march yesterday. They met in Square and after inrUmmitory speeches had been delivered they dispersed under action of the polica, but med, singing and shouting. The
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  • 48 7 Kec Stp 11, II 5 am The si g a its beratioL- 19 rending of papers pers are full of c«>rres; sion at, and despite tba opposition of cine Protestants the organisers have retnd have b for members ot' the Raman Church to be route.
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  • 7 7 -:ers and Qcbester proved
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  • 49 7 r! v:-: H<> Jv a r >ur-and--usrapore, in a, lit a fact, sound raorna start li 114 an emp: y in is bound immedi ur :ad er into to bouud they ere ide a a and huts in the t got no clue to the ob^rs.
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  • 66 7 been ing money pretei is people to sub- the rt wof a man i it happened, was far from beini,' laid up in hospital. Lemon, of the Singapore Chi Girls School, has been granted a Teacher's ticate of Competency to teach up to the idard under the provisiocs of Section
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  • 1761 7 Another Official Condemnation Conference Causes Enormous Loss. THE SECRET REBATERS. SHIPPING FREIGHT CONFERENCES. < >a the table of the Legislative Council yesterday was laid a report by Mr A. Stuart, Registrar of Imports and Exports. It is dated March oOth 1*. >07 and we may ba permitted
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  • 821 7 Like many matters of common knowledge' a good deal of mystery is observed as to what firms receive the Secret Rebate. We quote from page 7of the Report of the (local) Commission on the Eastern Shipping or Straits Homaward Conference, laid on the table of the Legislative
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 214 7 ROBINSON Co. |jj| THE CASH ip NOW PROOEEOINO y^/ Special offer during the Sale only. NICKEL SILVER FORKS SPOONS If FiDDLE PATTERN. Dessert Forks or Spoons Reduced to $2.40 per doz Table Forks ci Spoocs 20 ifjj| Te a Spoons $1.20 CUTLERY BEST SHEFFIELD STEEL BLADES. I Dessert Knives Steel
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  • 995 8 c DO on 1-th inst applauded M:- Bryan's spech at Lincoln. Nebraska, in •L n bis iiLininatiwn as Derucc-r;iti-.- candidate tor the PMridenej. Mr Byvin 1 reused the gathering to imnMBM en&ranama I by an impassioned speech, oi which the text j was The people must luie! The
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 526 8 SHIPPING. JL n# JL JL a*© JAPAN BAIL STEAMSHIP Co., Ltd, V A regular FORTNIGHTLY Service is maintained between Japan and Europo by the following NEW TWIN SCREW STEAMERS. DHDM Mail Conteacts with thh Imperial Japanese Govkrnmznt. Specially designed for the Company's European Service, lighted throughout by Electricity, provided with
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    • 709 8 SHIPPING. P O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. For China, Japan, Penang, Ceylon, Australia, India, Aden, Egypt, Mediterranean Ports, Plymouth and London. Through Bills of Lading issued for Ohina Coast, Persian Gulf, Continental and American Ports. Steamers will leave Singapore on or about MAIL LINES. Outward (for China) 1908 Delta Sept. 25
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    • 644 8 SHIPPING Imm. OCEAW STEAM SHIP Co. Ltd. AND China Mutual Steam Nav. Co. Ltd. The Companies' steamers are despatched from Liverpool outwards for the Straits, China and Japan every week, and from Japan homewards for London, Amsterdam and Antwerp every fortnight, and for Genoa, Marseilles and Liverpool monthly. One outward
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    • 625 8 SHIPPING. HAMBURG AMERIKA LINE, HAMBURG. The steamers of this Company maintain a regular service between Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp, and Rotterdam, and the Straits, China and Japan. Homewards, they are despatched fortnightly for Havre and Hamburg and once a month for Bremerhaven direct, calling at Penang and Colombo. Taking cargo at
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    • 475 8 SHIPPING. Norddeutscher Lioyd, Bremen IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE The faet and well-known mail etearaers c! this Company Bail fortnightly from Bremen, Hamburg n* B tterdam, Ant iiampton 1 Gibraltar, (r«noa, Ns.iuHf, (connection Marseilles, Napier, AiHis.nd.ru* and vic< versa) Port Said Suez, Aden, Coi<irulx. 1 > onekong, ShangJbA\ Nagasaki Kobe to
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  • 900 9 The Newest Rotary Eng'ne An Effective Rat Killer— A Tell Bvevything Watch— Our Power B I -Practical Electric Agriculture Si::: beam Revelations Travellers' Tea Explosions from Machine B The gas turbine has made such recent progress that it take fa place as one of the succe- Such an
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  • 719 9 Limitless Capacity for Food Production, The Tariff Commission has issued an important report on Colonial Preference and Imperial Reciprocity. Dealing u-ith the capacity for producing food supplies within the Empire the Commission says The progress of settlement and cultivation, irrigation, and enterprise generally in the self governing Colonies
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 5 9 Apioline Chapoteaut is superior to
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    • 228 9 PILES AND ECZEMA. A Proven Cuke. The tortoring irritation of piles (itching, bleeding or blind), eczema, and any itching skin complaint is allayed by the first application of Doan's Ointment and even stubborn cases, which have resisted other treatment for years, quickly yield to this healing ointment. Doan's Ointment is
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    • 500 9 y^SS^ nestles bp*^i^> /jff A Few bH3d NESTLE'S lk if Facts abcut 1' ml FOOD. NESTLE'S FOOD i; a perfect diet for babies and children. \M\ Nestle's Food is pure, suitable and natural, pleasing to the infants taste, thereby encouraging it to thrive through its enjoyment of its food. The
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    • 796 9 Singapore Sporting Club. I THE AUTUMN RACE MEETING. WILL BE HELD ON Tuesday the 13th, Thursday the M 15th and Saturday tho 17th October, 1908. > t PROGRMVIME. 1 FIRST DAY. I Tuesday, I:>th October, 1908. 1. The Maiden Plate. C Value $600 and *"0 to the Second Horse, g
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    • 765 9 6. Tne Griffin Consola: Value ||QQ and 160 fc*t the Bfl SMu A Handicap for all Griffins that hftVl run at this Meeting, and not won. Distance. Ban Course. 7 The Overnight Selling Eace. IHOaai KM ba the Second Horse. A Handicap for all horses that have run at this
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  • 552 10 RIVERS AND ROADS IN SI AM. The follov. >bl relating: to rivers en by officfln of the g ur ltd in the annual I published. Thk Aj Si Boundary. The road from Huang Tern to Lakon L inv g is fairly good, being main road and free from jangle. The
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  • 391 10 A CIJBIOUB Reference to Ceylon. The Madras Mail publishes extracts from an interesting old memoir of a Dutch Governor of the Malabar Coast once occupied by the Dutch in which a curious reference is made to Ceylon then another Dutch possession. read that the Memoir was
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  • 784 10 We give below some portions of a remarkable report of a game of baseball at Seattle between a team of local Japanese at the Paciti: port and a team of Seattle ladies, who placed under the style of the Merry Widows." Not being up in
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  • 245 10 For some years there has been a movement to dispense with two of the five great naval dockyards of France. Rochefort cannot be bed by modern warships (orient is too near Brest and the maintenance of five maritime prefectures involves the payment of jigh salaries to a
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  • 380 10 The Bangkok Times has a reference showing that the rise in the value of the tical is having a rather curious effect in diverting some of the up country trade from Bangkok to Burma, this up.connbeing largely worked in rupees. It is possible may be
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  • 108 10 iidon. Augu^: According to Tokyo tei< runts of some newspapers in Londo: opposition to the Fakr.i have been conveyed to .lapau in en ted form with the r< to bi subject of complaint in Englan. are qnite different. Siu i ritisli s tary for Foreign Afiar statement
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  • 301 10 A tragedy, the like of which it fortunately does not often fa lot to chr< in Hankow, sav- the Hankow Daily Ni of July 27th, <>< u r red early yt >?erday ui >rning tttween the hours of midnight ai am. At the latter hcur the sen ant ol de
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 65 10 >i w*«. .vkmrnotv «rzi» jji T m -n ■mill mmwiiin— l l— [■■■iibm—ii ii— HßiiiMiiwii— i— i^i^—— i GP HJ Celebrated Oilmen's Stores W&i HB AgenU for LEA PERRINS WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE gpf Crosse Blackwell, Ltd. /fc; Your teeth— whether naturally perfect or not— need A\ '0i dai!y care, and will
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    • 296 10 IF YOU SUFFER From any Skin or Blood Disease, such as Eczema, Scrofula, Scurvy, Glandu: Swellings, Bad Legs, I leers, Abscesses, Tumours, Boils, Sores, Eruptions, Blood Poison, Rheumatism, Gout, &C, B9FFT OELSY at once start a c Mixture (the World famed Blood Purifier), and the experience of thousands whom it
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    • 5 10 AVA RES S t S
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 430 10 SINGAPORE AND KRANJI RAILWAY. From Ist August, 1908, and until further notice. TRAIN SERVICE FOR WEEK DAYS ONLY. UP TRAINS. 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 am. am. am. am. am. am. am. pm. pm. pm. pm. pm. pm. pm. pm. Pasfi
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  • 642 11 Justice was v with bu uses, yesterday, ;a the Supreme L'-urt. N VM m uU> against Kway •Geo":< lew fur 1 Mil of v 14 .and costs due to Messrs Weil m-l Z -ruerot B* Bftttan A Mct'T, the managing partner, said he li »thing on I. "count
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  • 133 11 THE LATE GO VERNOR OF TRINIDAD. Tut; Possible S ic reference to the areer an of Sir Henry rernoi rho er a long struggle a^inst -erver proceeds to D to the Trinidud in thebt* terms -..on uf v.vll-infornic'l circles ernor of 19.3, is most t the d »r .'-her E^erton,
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  • 95 11 "Gentlemen, to wilaoe their wearied minds by honMt pastimes, playe at chesse, the astronomer*B game, and the philosopher's game which whfttf.s thyr wittes, recreates theyi minds and hurts nobody in the mean season. All communications should be addressed to fchfl i Editor, "Singapore Free Press." Original problems,
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  • Article, Illustration
    505 11 By E. Pradionat, France. White to play and mate in three moves. Problem No. 2 (De Walden) is solved by Kt-K5. The chief feature is the general activity of the whole white force. Mite is given, in turn, by the Q, each of the Rs. each of
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  • 76 11 (Corrected up to Sept 11.) Bank4in/ti w 2/4f M deiaand 2,4 Private creilits 3 m/s w 2/4 credits 6 m/s 2/4^ Fbanoh, demand Bank M 292 Ghimant, dQmand w 237^, Indi^T. T, 175 HoNaKONa, demand 29f% Yokohama, demand w 113/ Java, demand M 139^ Bawokoe, ciemand 66 SovaitsisNei, Bank
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  • 134 11 Sept 11 *Tin >„ M buyers $65.75 Grainbier w buyers 7.75 Gambler Oube No. 1 12.00 Gambier Cube No. 2 10.00 Pepper Black (or&'u. S'por?) 10.60 Pepper, White (fairL.W. spc) 16.37A Nutmegs (110 to tt»lb.)«, 20.00 Nutmegs (80 to the IV.) 21 .00 Mace (Banda.) M tw M nom
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  • 760 11 S H ARES. Capita! Capital Issoe Paid Issued paid op Valut up Company Quotattoa $300,000 300,000 10 10 Belat Tin Mining Co. Ltd 650 $300,000 225,000 10 10 Bruang Limited €00 $600,000 600.0C0 10 10 Bruseb Hydraulic Tin M. Co. Ltd "0 £400.000 350,000 1 1 Duff Development Co Ltd
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 14 11 Pneumonia. disease always results from a cold or iom an attack of influenza. Chamberlain's
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    • 540 11 On the Berth. BRITISH INDIA S. N. Co., Ltd. FOR PENANG, MADRAS NEGAPATAM. The Company's Steamer TAROBA," 6,309 tons, W. H. Jacobs, Commander, will be despatched for the above ports on Thursday, the 17th instant, at f> p.m. She has excellent accommodation for first and second class passengers. For freight
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    • 277 11 WANTED. EMPLOYMENT WANTED. Young Man age 26, b ituation corresp. aud s.peaks French, German. Spanish and Dutch, Good references. Apply No. 1 c o this paper. Sept 11 15.9 WANTED for Rubber Estate in Sumatra E. C, Eurasian Engineer. Good salary to competent man. Free quarters. Apply to G. K.
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    • 275 11 No. 1 DOCK. No. 2 DOCK. Length inside 514 ft. I.i n#th inside .375 ft Width or entrance, top 95 ft., bott W Idth of entrance, top 60.5 ft. bott. Water on blocks 27.5 ft. Water on blocks 20 5 ft Time to pump cut 4 hours. Time to pump
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  • 875 12 <M; ,:nu:\ M FRIDAY, SEPT. 11. Presbnt Hon'ble the tag. Su r v >•:,:..;, M aMS T. Perrott, C.8., 0 > T. T ilon'ble the -General ell. the Treasurer I Ar.thonisz. Tan Jiak Kim. Col. Engineer A. Murray. E. C Ellis. John Anderson. Dr. D. J. Galloway. T.
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  • 988 12 The usual meeting of this Board was held yesterday iu the offices. There were present the Ac ing President Mr J. Polglase, Messrs W. Macbean, A. W. Bailey, Cheng Keng L>e, Dr P. Fowlie, C. W. iHrbishire, H. L Cogblan, I tog Teck Lim.C. I. Carver, i A.
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  • 140 12 YESTERDAY'S PLAY. A Class Double Handicap. Green and Gaunt o*e 30.3 be?.t Eddis and Ransford scr., 6—l, 6—2. B Class Double Handicap. Godfrey and Mergler 3 v Phipps and Fulcher owe 4, postponed. D. Y. Perkins beat A. R. Linton, 6—4, 6—2. M. J. Upcott beat J.
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  • 30 12 The following mine outputs for the month )f August are sent to us The>>elat Tin Mining Co, Ltd :>7o 7C> pis. The KuantanTiu Mining C<>, Ltd., 67.50 pis.
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  • 107 12 A closely contested tennis match was witnessed at Blakan Mati d Thursday, when the Ordnance Club visited the RA.M.C. The games, which ended in a draw, were as follows Ordnance.— W. T. Ferguson and D. Brodie lost to R A.M.C.— Sgt. Bird and H. Ide, 6—2. J. Goulding
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  • 490 12 Motion To Commit To Prison. Before Mr. Justice Sercojibe Smith, in the Bankruptcy Court, yesterday afternoon, Mr. F. M. Baddeley, the acting Official Assignee, moved the Court that A. M. Sarkies and E. Johannes, bankrupts, be committed to prison for a period not exceeding three months. Messrs. Delay
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  • 198 12 It has befii reported that the Brothers Light was only visible a few miles distant on the night of the 9th ii The British steamer G-lenogle arrived yesterday with 1-">l7 Chinese coolies men, women and children from Amoy. Oj the voyage a passenger died on board. A death
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  • 155 12 Emulated Atttolyctts, but Made 1 Ai, Error. One%f Singapore's minor industries and yet at times it assumes quite large proportions \3 that of stealing the belongings of passengers on incoming vessels. At this game, Abdullah, a Mohammedan Indian, is a star artist. One of the cleverest shipping thieves
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