The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 25 December 1919
1919-12-25
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Title Section18 1919-12-25 1 Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. rEN CENTS THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, I<>l9. No. J>,Ss!>18 words
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Article893 1919-12-25 1 It may well be asked why, when aiving an account of tl chi an,, 1 li;u:irl1 'i. I have ah i the backmd, and havu nerei offered a foll-lengtfti picture «>f m portani .1 person. M. must be that ()!In edible. It is. of coui trutli than fiction,893 words
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Advertisement302 1919-12-25 1 RAFFLE^ HOTEL. CHRISTMAS NEW YEAR FESTIVITIES. Special Dinner and Ball. ermissioa ol el L. B. Boyd-Mosa < Ma;.. D.S.O. am) OffiI the Hand of the l>t Hutallion South Staffordshire Rogisfeat under Ooadnetonhip of Mr Bultitude, will play d-iring the evening. A limited number ol tablet will be arranged for linnor302 words
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Advertisement58 1919-12-25 1 J t ]j 7 Uk HUTTENBAOH 3BOS. GO. j 'iii~"i ni r n '><%iiWiiß.iiiliiililßMß!PJap|lli|liaJLlLi_Mlli> THE PUREST IN THE WORLD OBTAINABLE l/IIA I (<BTAINaHLE fTKE TRAVELLER'S MALAY PRONOUNCING HANDBOOK. This handy little book has now reached Its Eleventh Edition, a sure indication of its usefulness. Price, $1.50 per copy; Post Free,58 words
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Advertisement349 1919-12-25 1 THE DAY'S NEWS. His Excellent} the Governor -ends the cheering newt from I'enang that the Government of India will send as soon aa possible len thousand tons <>l Rangoon !*ice Pago 7. Civil service pensioners are to get from Jan. Ih| temporary increase to their pensions, both officers and widows349 words
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Miscellaneous118 1919-12-25 1 THE WEEK. Thursday. 2oth. High Water.— o.ls a.m.. 11.29 u.n. Christmas Day. Friday, M|h. High Water.— o.4s ajn 0.3 p.m. Boxing Day. Public and Bank Holiday. Xo issue of Singapore Free Pr Saturday, 27th. High Water.— l.lB a.m.. »'.-41 p.m. Public and Bank Holiday. I odge Zetland Installation. 30 p.m.118 words
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Article366 1919-12-25 2 THE SENSATIONS OF FLYING. pilo verj •ntrol." an hour in I I '^iivj: of which n the air. 1 1 R S, A K i to the e oi the more Dm the ri cord full This I pilot and p;. usual i i- l "bun omee a pil« ordinary366 words
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Advertisement224 1919-12-25 2 The Mil] Big XfIUM Attraction in Suigapore this Year FILLIS GREAT CIRCUS MUSEUM BQUESCURRICULUM Fxtcivdi everybody the Season's Gr I .'t Forget Uu PERFORM VN( I > Every ESrening at I (SUND IYS EXCEPTED) (.i:\\i> MATIN! BOXING DA\ FRIDAY Mia and SATURDAY Dec 27tli p.m. W hen Children admitted HALF224 words
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Advertisement798 1919-12-25 2 From WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, to TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30. A BIG UNIVERSAL STAR ATTRACTION A DOUBLE A DOROTHY PHILLIPS' SPECIAL A DOUBLE ATTRACTION Sensational and Interest-Compelling, attraction PROGRAMME from first to last. PROGRAMME THE MORTGAGED WIFE In 6 Parts The story of a wife with an erring spouse who is ready798 words
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Article538 1919-12-25 3 >ea»inj; Completion. Allahabad, Nov. 20th.— The "Pioneer's' 1 Baghdad correspondent, wiring from Ba^h- dad on the 12th instant, says that Basra and Baghdad tact getting nearer to one another by rail, at the rate of about m miles a day. Jt is expected that metre gauge railMadras Mail - 538 words
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Advertisement293 1919-12-25 3 I i> Department is in charge of a fully qualified Engineer who will be pleased to call and consult with you WYFORDS I td Disi)(»sal Installation I I'* and Hotels Hospitals Estimates given I Bungalows and a j i ->[ Q f K q H Kept -'I Fully Equipped IW.293 words
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Advertisement111 1919-12-25 3 MASSAGE HALL Ko. 299, Brncoolen Street, "pon daily 6 a.m. 9 p.m. Telephone No. IJG7. MASSAGE AND MANICURE BY iir. FUJITA, Mrs. HARU, Miss HANA. MASSA€rE HAlt,! I £n K Amr 5 m i i f i flZ3|r yO HASSA*e 4aiM- N x MBALIE MEAL. The !»rosent storks of Mealie111 words
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Advertisement84 1919-12-25 3 w w JL JL JL JL JLaJ Pay Maximum Delivery UProfits formance of White Trucks. Let us give you facts and •gures of White Perform- 111 a«^ I WHY PAY A HIGH PRICE I fan When you can buy I -^^^n MAfKAYS a* #OS kl^B^^El^Bp 1 1 >^^ AT A84 words
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Advertisement205 1919-12-25 4 CHING KENG LEE CO. AUCTION SALE OF iiluahle AValnut stained Jacobean designed, and Wai polished Teak House-hold furniture etc. B SAL! 4 RAFFLES CHAMBERS, RAFFLES PtA< On Saturday 27th December. IMS, at 10.30 a.m. COMPRISING One Walnut stained teak Jacobean designed side board with dra? < cupboards, teak dining table,205 words
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Advertisement84 1919-12-25 4 THE SINGAPORE SHIPCHANDLERY Co., Ltd Shipchandlers and Providoring Contractors. Th« Company'! Launch mecta in-coming ships. Offices l6, BATTERY ROAD, Take Lift to Top Floor. Telephone No. 453. Orden promptly attended to for daily and sea stock supplies. H. W. H. STEVENS, Manager. SAID MARICAN CO. Established 1864. Dubashes, Shipchandlers and84 words
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Advertisement861 1919-12-25 4 AUCTIONEERS AND ESTATE AGENTS ESTATE OF WONG AH FOOK DECD. IMPORTANT TWO DAYS TuCTION SALE of Compound Houses, Site for Compound and Shop Houses, 1 business Premises and shop houses. The undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public {j Auction at theit Sale-room Raffles Chambers-Raffles Place. On Monday 12th861 words
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Advertisement489 1919-12-25 4 CHING KENG LEE CO. IMPORTANT AUCTION SALE OF TOWN PROPERTIES The undersigned Mave been instructed to soil by Public- Aur'ion at their v Raffles Chamber.-,. EUfltefl Place, On MONDAY, 29th DBCBMBEI at IM p.m. 17 HOUSES AT BRAS BASAH ROAD AND CLYDE rBRRACJ Lot Description Area Sq. Ft Titl 1489 words
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Article735 1919-12-25 5 FRASER Co.. EXCHANGE AND SHARE BROKERS SINGAPORE, DECEMBER 24. MINING. [Figures in brackets shows the capita) and issue valuo of the Share in dollars, unless otherwise marked. C. Cum div x equals ex div.] Ampang ($1,000,000—0) 12.00 L2.M Ayer Weng ($100,000—1) 2.05—2.25 Hitam Tin ($300,000—1) 2.30—2.40 K.735 words
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Article305 1919-12-25 5 Deo ??nd 1919. The j;ricea quoted are guici'Aliy Di-Obw cm rent a* CJyde Terraoo Marktt. Aj Uk> markitf there roay be sn:»U varlatiCßK I oeta per eat:> 17 u. :'ij), Jo 3* "B» rcr Ib. If 'Bex f Bt< do 3.% I BCtrn > i 1 r305 words
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Advertisement279 1919-12-25 5 WANTED. •TAN lIWEDIATFI v for J, E ;r 'u.th.r FartioUat. IL' i rouicl 195 "i-oi,,- 1 nusJ Appl) in LEPHONE .v El El TRU ED L' 7 1 Dutch' 12 g racani Ap] !7l» tan IL> H<»\RD AND RESIDENCE, Available froni I two double rooms suitable for married couples, or279 words
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Advertisement378 1919-12-25 5 I AUCTION SALES. i lUCTIOM SALE OF < ARGO EX S.B SCANDM blue and *1 le por rising, I s, fanc> c bulbs 80 watts 81 Sale-room of M id. ::i 10.30 a.m. daya prior to Sale POWELL (<>., LTD. Aqctionew. UM AL( TIOX SALE OF I V i VDIA378 words
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Advertisement704 1919-12-25 5 f NOTICES. THE FIRE INSURANCE Association of Singapore, the singapore marine [nsl ral ASSOCIATION. v The offi r of th«> sh^Ti ">ns will In- clo> -d for the tran-.. i. huniness ;t?< fo lows: Tl r, t.m: i I r, 191" fhursday, Ist January, Ld2o. By Order <>? the Committee*704 words
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Advertisement703 1919-12-25 5 NOTICES. NOTICE is hereby giren that the business known as "The Eastern Tyre Company" ried on at No. 10-4 0 chard Road. Singapore has been sold to Tan Soo Tio hy Chun Tiang Seng of No. 10 Cecil Street, Singapore. NOTICE is also hereby given that t\u- above Mrill from703 words
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Advertisement140 1919-12-25 5 NOTICES. SIR .ITS MERCHANT SERVICE GUILD. To whom it may concern: TAKK NOTICE. The abovi Guild, throufl their Solicitors, intend applying for an Injunction to restrain the Committee of th.- Sailors Home 'from selling any par! of the land on which the Sailors' Home" now st;iri<< an lest with the140 words
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Article44 1919-12-25 6 KAY-DOWIE. <>n Wednesday, December i2ith. at th.' Presbyterian Chureh, Singapore. Robert Christ it-, only *bn of Mr. and Mr*. B. C. Kay of Lonjrfonran. Scotland, to Elisabeth Mouman Dowie, elder daughter of the late William Hall Ramsay, Soliciwr> of Aherifevr, Scotland. se r-44 words
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793 1919-12-25 6 The Singapore Free Press. Tenants and Sub-Tenants. m THURSDAY, DEC. 23. 1919. point we register a strong pr )test on what we believe to be the practice of u religious corporation in Singapore. The corporation has had left to it, or has acquired by purchase, a considerable amount of landed793 words
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Article499 1919-12-25 6 The world is still a little out of oiiit. but better than it has been for lye years. It is therefore permissible to resume the age old custom H wishing everybody a Happy "hrislmas, and, as long as we do not forget those less fortunate than ourlelves, a Merry Christmas.499 words
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Article229 1919-12-25 6 LABOUR PARTY HEATEN. [Aneta' Service.] Sydney, Dec. 22. In the Australian ejections the Labourites were badly beaten. Hitherto the following are the definite results In the House of Representatives, National Party 38, labour 88, Farmers V In the Senate, Nationals £8, Labourites S. Sydney. Dec 23. M>\ Hughes229 words
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Article75 1919-12-25 6 TEMPORARY RELIEF. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Kuala Lumpot. It is officially stated that the Secretary it Slate has sanctioned, as a temporary rare of r increase of 26 per cent cf all pensions not exceeding per annum and 20 pel cent on hipher pensions. relief to75 words
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Article59 1919-12-25 6 Treasurer of the S Settlenv Branch of the National Association of Dis- j charged Sailors and Soldiers bepa to acknowledge the receipt of a cheque for > $854-64 from Mr. A. \V. Still in aid of the Benevolent Fund, this amount bein^ tr.e balance in the hands of59 words
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Article368 1919-12-25 6 Messrs Suzuki and Co. have boe.i granted a licence under the N'ou -ferrous Metals Ordinance. Lieut. A. It. C. Allen. lI.C, has beea Appointed Captain in the Malacca Volunteer Rifle.-. Municipal Commission meets on l»*v Silt •1 J."o p.m.. an ordinary meeting vith a formal agenda. Mr. I. G. Hubback368 words
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Article311 1919-12-25 6 A subscription list hai been Offa ore. r to provide comfort? and extra mt on board the Trooper which will M taking home the larpe drafts in tl Garriaon whose relief arrived by tht Os Montes." The fare on board a Trooper is on home "ration" scale311 words
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Article431 1919-12-25 6 Mftjoi J. Kirk lias resipr, ion ii the Penang Volunt* Mr. J. Evans vrisl state the management i-f M V» ,iam GossagC an from the 31 :inl joins M. S H. Slot and Co., Penang. earl;. new > Ii has tn.' that the deatl i ran in October, 101 s431 words
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Advertisement217 1919-12-25 6 BULMEK 3 HE^EFORDSKSBE CODERS ,mW Shipments Just Arrived 6ILDBEBK MAOGRE6OR Co., Raffles Quay. 7 i MR. H. N. BIICKEWDGE Isf ot Messrs. LAFAYETTE, PHOTOGKAPUERS to Then MAJESTIES VBe«» to announ:e that he conduct* tha ONLY EUROPEAN STUDIO in SINGAPORE At The BURLINGTON. 100 Pictt North of the Adelphi HuteL IURBEBRY217 words
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Advertisement30 1919-12-25 6 THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS and MERCANTILE ADVERTISKR Established, 1835. Telephone No. 56 The only Morning Paper in the Straits Settlements. CabIes— "ADVERTISER," Singapore. Editorial and Publishing Office, 30 RAFFLES PLACE.30 words
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Article1357 1919-12-25 7 I ktt Own ndent.) Nov. 20th, 1919. ly centring more and •-all ir general Cor 'daily broad. Most to it, mo* .tion t is only fair to ther other contributory inimilac nature m I a whole in a more nent. Thus, if in the ny1,357 words
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Article862 1919-12-25 7 WITH WORDS OF GOLD. THE PRINCE AT THE GUILDHALL. [Reuter's Service] London, Dec. 18. After the conclusion at the Guildhall meeting, the Prince of Wales, proceeding to the IfsjMion House luncheon with the Lord Mayor, was the recipient of a further ovat'or. by the citizens in the862 words
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Article546 1919-12-25 7 FOREIGN AFFAIRS. RETICENCE NEEDED. [Keuter's Service] In the House of Commons, Mr. Lloyd G-' Re, in his speech in the debate on fortfgr affairs, denied th^ suggestions of seer- t diplomacy during and since the pear- conference. He emphasised the wisdom of reticence regarding the delicate situation546 words
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Article224 1919-12-25 7 Paris, Dec. 19. The new Chamber of Deputies, haying completed th? work of validating the elections, ha3 elected ns President, without opposition, M. Deschanel by 478 votes. A lively const est took place for the Vice Pre- sidencies Messieui'3 Rnoul, Perct, Arago, Le Fevre, nnd Du Prey, Andre224 words
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Article18 1919-12-25 7 The holiday season has arrived, nn 1 there is undoubtedly a lapse in morals.- Rev. H. H. Carlisle.18 words
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Advertisement131 1919-12-25 7 ETHE RICE SITUATION. ASSURANCE FROFjIBJXCaLENCY EXCELLENT CHRISTMAS NEWS A tele-ram has been received from the Indian Government to the elUct t hut permission has been riven. to export 10,000 (ten thousand) tons of rice immediately from Rangoon, and that the Government of India h;»p^s to send our full requirements from131 words
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Advertisement100 1919-12-25 7 ROBINSON Co. PLAiSTOWI S >N ONE LB. AIRTIGHT TINS TOFFEE DE LUXE SAL IVVA ILK TOPPLE CREAM DIMPLES J\ UNTIES BRANDY SNAPS j PRICE $1 per tin nett ROBINSON Co. Smokers of discrimination always select SMOKING 9 M *<^^y^ J% MT** f* f^k r s^^>-- .^IJIfI It has the distinction100 words
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Advertisement555 1919-12-25 8 e NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. (Incorporated in Japan. MAIL CONTRACT WITH THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT. (Subject to alterations without Notice), BUROPEA3 LINE. (Via Suez Canal-. Fortnightly Service. For (Malacca), Penang, Colombo, Suez, London and Antwerp MISIIIMA MARU 26th -Dec. SADO MARU end Dec. DURBAN MARU (Calling at Hamburg) Dec. KITANO MARU555 words
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Advertisement677 1919-12-25 8 K. P. M. KONINKLYKE P AKETV AART MAATSCH APPIJ (Incorporated in Holland). ROYAL PACKET NAVIGATION Co. OF BATAVIA Telephone 131 Passage Dept. 1202 Freight Dept. 1002 Managers Desk 1437 Marine Supt. Transhipment Dept. 3 COLLYER QUAY. UNDER CONTRACT WITH THE NETHERLANDS INDIA GOVERNMENT. Rbynst Mnntofc and Palembacg v!a Torgbal Dec.677 words
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Advertisement593 1919-12-25 8 P. O. BRITISH INDIA ArLAK LllNllr. (Incorporated in England). MAIL AND PASSENGER SERVICES. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL S. N. CO. (Under Contract with His Majesty's Government). The Company's MAIL SERVICES EAST OF BOMBAY are nt prestat suspended. LONDON .FAR-EASTERN SERVICE. FROM LONDON I TO MARSEILLES LONDON DUE SINGAPORE LEAVE SINGAPORE NOVAKA593 words
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Advertisement440 1919-12-25 9 THE SIAM STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.~ (INCORPORATED IN SIAM.> SINGAPORE— BANGKOK COASTING SERVICE. F £h.a* n T V kn£^ Pat ani Singora, 1... rMAHUJOL ,Mu A n riVal DCPartUre VALA\ L 191D Slst Dec 191 steamer, bm Wl 1920 7th Jan. 1920 «c, nin :odationf" r 8 fi r V"lVZ440 words
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Advertisement345 1919-12-25 9 BA ARABIAN PRINCE PROM NKW YORK Consignee! are :iotifi«- i that a Survey of p.i? damaged package! c\ above steamer will bo heM at Godowni Not. 10 rnd 19, Tpr.jon^ Pagmr, at 9 a.m. on Monlay Deo 29th. No other Survey will bo held. MMVSOV GILFILLAN K Co.. Ltd. (Incorporated345 words
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Advertisement468 1919-12-25 9 The Ocean Steam Ship Company, Limited. The China Mutual Steam Navigation Co., Ltd. AND "EUerman" Line. EUerman Bucknall Steam Ship Co., Ltd. (AMERICAN MANCHURIAN LINE.) (Incorporated in England.) JOINT FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO NEW YORK via SUEZ Oil PANAMA. FROM NEW YORK. Steamer Leaves Due Route For New York S'pore POLYPHEMUS468 words
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Advertisement434 1919-12-25 9 LA SOCIETA DI NAVIGAZIONE A VAPORE DEL. LLOYD TRIESTINO. (Incorporated in Italy) For VENICE and TRIESTE the Company's steamer has excellent riccommodation for First and Second Class A t 4EDERLANDSGH -IN BISCHE STEENKOLEN HANDEL MA&TSCHAPPIJ (KLTHERLANOS '«D!A COAL TRADING COMPANY, LTO.) Ir.corrorated in Java. .'ottl Merchants, Landing Agents, Steredorei and434 words
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Article1903 1919-12-25 10 BOLSHEVIST OITRAGE DESCRIBED. I* r Cazalet, M. C, w« D. C, to G< era! Knox, Head of the Bi ar, with Admiral Kol; lIIS '1 Of till' hilt .ai Family li derived U'uv tie 'i< iioii> nof ■ever*] cye-w Who gflVt- 'It < .it tf Enquiry.] In1,903 words
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Advertisement73 1919-12-25 10 III; i ■ill C^rf^a ftiMtt Aatfe^ to I I -Jl>- g^^aK r*r +m^md If B ZEBEDELA EBUTEB BUY BEFORE TOO UT£ An Orange Grove ESTIMATED RETURNS r > aores 500 treea sth year £250 j 7th year £700 r £1,000 Remember you have five years 1 or n years 073 words
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Advertisement346 1919-12-25 10 How few people realise that indigestion is neariy always caused by wind on stomach, and yet it is so. Now a dose of Woods' Great Cure, taken after meals would remove all that over -loaded feeling which makes the sufferer so miserable. If you are afflicted in this way, buy346 words
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Advertisement33 1919-12-25 10 I I l^/^£^J you think of tyres Ml ~H 3 L < a !llg UUniOP riUODBr (JO. (Far Fasti Lid I i INCORPORATED IX JAPAN I 43, Robinson Road, Singapore. N ret pi/- in33 words
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Article50 1919-12-25 11 D< cembor 24. Eaiil- 4 m.s. 2-4^ Bank denianvl 2-4 '4 Private credits 8 m.^. 2-5 New York, Baiil demand XtW York 90 days Ilon#kon£, deniui <i 1I4 1 Prem. Yokohama, demand 89% ►Sovereign, Bank Buyii |8.54 Ii: ok of England liate 6 per cent Bar Silver. Lon 77',50 words
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Article110 1919-12-25 11 1 Ti \2'> $k;o «)(j Gumbier Cube' No. l Pepper Black Pepper, (White f:ur) Tapioca, small pearl, I Tapioca, mall Rake, f.q. ii.'jr, Topics, mediam pcui\ f.q. Tc-arl Sago, imall Copra, Sandried 27.00 Torra, Oj)ium, Benares mu-frt V> Ra ooji White Rice Sian No. 1 for export no U\kc,110 words
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Article87 1919-12-25 11 .ah Englishman well known in the •ial world was coming home from Ame-r'i-a, and on tl,e boat talked of tho strong pro- British feeling he found among the business community in New York. Another i atcenger had been on lecturing torn-, anj remarked that this feeling wai feeblei87 words
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Advertisement1874 1919-12-25 11 HL&i»ti* f»v«r $2,000,000 Assurance in force over $9,000,000 L THE GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. I [Incorporated in Straits Sett.] HEAD OFFICE Winchester House, Singapore. LONDON OFFICE 32, Old Jewry, E.C. the Company ha 3 £20,000 deposited with the Supreme Court of England, and complies with the British Life1,874 words
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Advertisement225 1919-12-25 11 EXCHANGE HANKS The Exchange Bank^ will bo c'oso<J ov. Thursday. Friday and Saturd. iber 25th, I 27th Christmas Holida] and on Thursday Ist January 1920 New W'-.w Day. 19.12 26.12 DILL AND GLOOMY It .-o try Pinkettes, the gentle little liver stimulant?, and ?ee how quickly these symptoms will be225 words
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Miscellaneous185 1919-12-25 11 VESSTM.S AT V\'UAHVEB. I rl<x rde, Mache^v Eact Wk:u f e 8> Ormara, SehoenfeU, MyLilua. Sheers Wharf No. X- Sithftnia. Main Wharf No 4.- Melchior troub, Hwah Wu. Main Wharf No. 5. Kleist. Minderoo. Main Wharf No 6.- West Hepburn. Lake 6ilpen, Telamon. Wet Dock No. 7 Kh \g, West185 words
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Miscellaneous200 1919-12-25 11 iMAIL TABLE. ~ZTZ To-d«y. intarniediat« and local mtf'.i, wft] bl fo^nd in list below: Penan*, Malacca, F.M.S. (by Train) i pjn. daily (except Sunday). Kota Tir^gi and itatioai to Fvaa'a F/jmpui ut 6 a.m. Joi.ore S. 8.30, nocn, 2, 4 4 6 p.m. I ridaj 9 a.m. K a.m. Hock200 words
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Article439 1919-12-25 12 WHOLE DISTRICT TERRORISED. of the North J il] on November 27. from Killing sa\s: Tn* tcepticism In red doinps c f <>u had Men what wo there would 1m no longer »ny doubt on the subj. The animal operate! in f district in these mountain* four hours'439 words
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243 1919-12-25 12 lUmmii ir Matrimony. The Registrar-General has a mucn cheerier report to make of last quarter's bills of morta in for long time past. Births 'ed in England and Wales during the three months ended September 0 were 170,0GT. and death? were 89,112. There were243 words
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Article47 1919-12-25 12 London, Nov. 27.— Mr. Malan, Minister of Mints, has announced that a conference of four groups of producers and representative* of the Union Government and Southwest Africa unanimously decided to control the swpply of diamond* and dispose of them aok>!y through a London Syndicate.47 words
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Article627 1919-12-25 12 IUKKKKS PLAN TO MAKE Bid GUNS OBSOLETE. I think the Germans lost the war in the Fokker, the Dutch inventor of the (.< ;.dl>y Gorman aeroplanes, .has toid Mr. W. (i. Shepherd in an interview at Amsterdam. Fokker at the same time blamed the Berlin War627 words
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Article204 1919-12-25 12 CO NVERTING CANNIBALS. Some of the strange reasons why the j cannibals of New Guinea persist in their hereditary habits were mentioned by Lieut»rant E. W. Pearson Chinnery in a lecture £.1 the Horniman Museum Forest Hill. In parts of the island, he said, a youth is not supposed to204 words
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Article41 1919-12-25 12 Messrs. Powell and Co., Ltd., told at anction at their sale-room on Tuesday last, the well situated freehold property known *e "Gre«n Valley," 81 Cavanagh Road, to Mr. M. H. Dawood for $63,000. The m comprises 142,931 «q ft.41 words
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Article165 1919-12-25 12 i\ S. P. To the Editor. Dear Sir, Further to ray letter of yesterday, I shall be obliged If you will publish the appended excerpt from "Truth," issue of November 19th. Yours faithfully. C WARD JACKSON, Secretary. I have already welcomed the recently formed Estate Staffs Association165 words
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140 1919-12-25 12 NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND. Mrs. Lornie, honorary treasurer and ary ol the local St Dunstan's Fund 's in receipt of tK 1 following. Hear Madam. Mrs. L. W. W i rd of Singapore ha? us s Bank Draft for £390 s further contribution from the Women of Singapore. In140 words
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Article185 1919-12-25 12 People Drunk on Baa-Da-Cologsw Prohibition, such aa the. M Pussyfoots" v esire, will accentuate an evil whi«.h th« higl price? of ordinary wholesome refreshment have already tncouraged. It would mear the consumption of methylated spirts. tnd oven Kent, as beverages. Thi*- is the opinion of Major MacSweney185 words
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192 1919-12-25 12 SIMPAM WHEY HYDRAULIC MINES. LTD. The annual report for the your ended Oct. ;U (to be submitted to the annual general meeting at the company*! offices, Chartered Bank Chambers on Wednesday Doc. 31 at II a.m.) slates The not profit for the period after making due provision for depreciation amounts192 words
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Article65 1919-12-25 12 Re! Blood and Yellow, a fine Golden West Photoplay Co's production featuring G. M. Anderson, creator of Broncho Billy, *aid to be better than the last, will be presented at the Marlborough, to-night along with a two reel drama The Bassing of Diana, in two parts, a Rolin65 words
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Article150 1919-12-25 12 LATEST TRANSACTIONS. Reported by Eraser Co. Little interest was taken in the market to-day owing to Christmas Holidaya and very few changes in quotations are to be reported. SuQgei Ba^ans sold from $5.45 to $5.55, Pulf. Bulanprs $6.47 H, Changkats $<J.lO Ayei Punas apain fetched $14.35, Lnnas150 words
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Article552 1919-12-25 12 Owing to Christmas day following on Thursday we go to press a day earlier. In the Rubber Share Market all the leaders continue in strong demand with prices still inclined to work forward, hut on the other many of tin one dollar issues have I somewhat nn552 words
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Article124 1919-12-25 12 While many ex-officers have discarded their military titles, others clinc: to them, no matter how incongruous to their pre-1 sent avocations. Whereby hangs this merry tale of an interchange of courtesies in one I of London's mammoth stores, aa reported by a correspondent to have taken place124 words
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Advertisement188 1919-12-25 12 £f^ >4Ftv M* M\ W IK-W^^ PURE FOOD PRODUCI QUALITY GUARAMtED SOLE AGENTS Conneli Bros. Co. Singapore. OUR NEW YORK ]^f^^^ "*^X ORGANIZATION O^ '#»8I^38? AT TOUR SERVICE. 1 OIK FACILITIES PURCHASING. INSURANCE. Ail our buying is done on a We are covered undtr i I cash basi. j This188 words
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