Straits Echo, 9 July 1912

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  • 34 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND FAR EAST GENERALLY- VOL. 10. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, TUESDAY, 9th JULY, 1912.% Single Copy, 10 cents. No. lßti
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1066 1 [f jo d r« juiro a Tome and gome* thing to nourish you, Drink Do^ s Head .Guinness’s Stout, and lo«fr for t^fa label to soe that you get it. TIANO LEE A Co. t Sole Agents. x*. r. IV Andrew Usher 8 Co.’s SPECIAL RESERVE. O.V.G. Whisky. SANDILANDS, BUTTERY
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    • 34 1 Order it in Nip Bottles. Dog's Head Guinness’s Stout. The Tonic that cheers and soothes and doesn't harm. Observe this label,. it is on evory genuine Nip. F TIANQ LEE A Co.. Sole Ag*nts
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  • 1047 2 Mr. Asquith discussed the question of 1 railway nationalisation with a Trades Union deputation the other day, and promised to interview the railway companies on the matter later. He said An enormous amount of capital has been 1 subscribed aud paid up —lam not going into
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  • 68 2 Horace Plunkett loves to help people to help themselves, aud to help each other, in what makes life better aud nobler he has made that his work,” says the Saturday Review. “And if you were to ieduce his life, his effort, his conduct to a philosophical system,
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  • 150 2 Many will read with deep regret the bulletin issued last eveuing announcing that there is little hope of preserving General Booth’s sight,” says the Westminster Gazette. It tnav not l*e widely known that the General became blind in one eye some years ago as the result of dust
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 55 2 THIS IS IT! Waterbury’s Metabolized Cod Liver Oil Compound rasif, I .< TASTELES3 ODORLESS The latent scientific pre paration of COD LIVER OIL. Docs all that is claimed for it and super sedcs the old fashioned emulsions which upset the stomach. Highly re commended l>y the medi cal profession. OF
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    • 185 2 For Children’s Hacking Cough at Night, Woods’ Great 1 eppermint Cure. CL6ANS6 YOUR BLOOD with GRIMAULT V C o> SARSAPARILLA Ms I r!* S j f-o 5 11 iff The original sarsaparilla. recommended for the last 40 years for lymphatic diseases, eruptions, boils, and all disorders ot the skin. GRIMAULT
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    • 1939 2 PIXOAP A superfine tar preparation for washing the hair. The best method of imparting vigour to the scalp and vitality to the hair. Use it while taking your bath i as PIXOAP i iiliiiiP’ municipal 'notice. *o* WANTED. A Special meeting of the Municipal Commissioner» will I>e field at the
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  • 25 3 Vessels hrom Agents Due Delta Colombo Atsaye Singapore Print Eitel f-rie<irich&Bg*pon Luetzew Colombo AG.ACo. A.G.ACo. B-M.AJo. BM.ACo. 11th July. 13th 1 t>th 18th
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  • 22 3 Vettelt For Agent* Leave* Delta Singapore A»mye Colombo Prim Eitel Friedrich Colombo Luetsoic Singapore A-G.ACo. A. i B. IB.M ACo. July.
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    • 310 3 m ter ted Arrival* and UepartarM Mall Service Outward. July 11 l>elta connecting with Mongolia tf M Egypt Medina Homeward. I Date. Steamer, Due with 8.8. London. Julv 13Assav« Marmora Aug. 11 FARES BY MAIL STEAMERS. 1st class 2nd class T > London by Sea $565-72 $377-14 To Marseilles or
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    • 1253 3 <S HIPPING BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. HUBER LL07II, BREMEN GERMAN MAIL LINS. flTHE fast and well-known mail steamers of this Company sail fortnightly from Bremen -A. Hamburg via Rotterdam, Antwerp, Southampton, Gibraltar, Algiers, Genoa Naples (connection Marseilles, Alexandra and vice ver$a). Port Said, Suez, Aden, Colombo, Penang, Singapore,
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  • 96 4 Published daily (except Sundays and public holidays) AT THK CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 226—232 Beach Street, Penang. Pric*. Daily Local $24 per annum Outstation... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLE ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 N.B.— All bu.inww W—'ritiim should he
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  • 430 4 We read .in a copy of Chambers' Edinburgh Journal dated Nov. sth 1836, that Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles was born on the sth of July 1781. We are four days late with this memorandum, but better late than not at all. We are all the keener on an annual
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  • 123 4 To rii» Ki.itok or tub Straitsi Echo. Dear Mr. Editor, May I trouble you for a space in your columns, just to call the attention of the Police to the public nuisance caused by several youngsters, who make Muntri Street and especially the junction of the said
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  • 74 4 Mr. Thorne, tbo lawyer, bad a carriage smash yesterday in the neighbourhood of the Free School. His borFe was badly hurt, and had to lie removed in the Veterinary ambulance. Mr. Thorne escaped injury. The same evening Mrs. R. P. Phillips had an alarming carriage accident near
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  • 206 4 At a Committee Meeting of this Society, held yesterday, it was decided to give the Promenade Concert for which rehearsals are now in progress, on Thursday, Ist August. An interesting Programme has been drawn up. It will include un- accompanied Part Songs by the Chorus, Selections by
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  • 214 4 Before Mr. R. B. Osborne this afternoon the preliminary enquiry was heard into the case against Ku Hai Sui, who was charged with using as genuine a forged document. Det. Sgt. Caldwell prosecuted. The accused was not represented by counsel. The story alleged by the prosecution was
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  • 148 4 The Butterworth ricsha strike continues. All the shandrydan drivers have now thrown in their lot with the ricsha men, so that with the exception of the bus and the bullock cart there is not a single public vehicle of conveyance to be seen from Permatang Bindahari to
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  • 128 4 lbs. Eajang Rubber Estates, Ltd. 2,317 Glenshiel Rubber Estates Ltd. 12,356 Inch Kenneth Rubber Estates, Ltd. 23,000 Sandvcroft Rubber Co. Ltd. 8,364 Senawang Rubber Estates Co. Ltd. 18,167 Lanadron Rubber Estates 43,039 Beranang (Selangor) Rubber Plantations, Ltd. 842 Balgownie Rubber Estates, Ltd. 14,100 Merlimau Estate 11.720 Chota
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  • 68 4 Mr. Tfco Tiow Siat, accompanied bj bis Private Secretary, visited St. Xavier’s Institution yesterday. He was received b? Brae. Marcian and Peter and shown round the school. Mr. R. G. Knowles liked Penang because Penang liked him, and he’s coming back. He has arranged to give an
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  • 557 4 SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING. A Special General Meeting of the Mahomedan Football Association was held at the premises of the Hutton Lane Football Club last night. Mr. K. Mydinsah presided. The meeting was the largest ever convened. the delegates of the several affiliated clubs, there wore also present
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  • 110 4 At about 4 p.m. on the sth instant a Malay man, who was on his way to his plantation at Bukit Erskine from Bagan Jermal, found the dead body of a Chinaman by the side of the road. He at once made for the Tanjong Tokong Police Station
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  • 61 4 The following business in tin has !e m done to-day:— Penang Penang Tin Exchange, 20 tons at $99.35 Straits Trading Co., 50 100 62 Singapore Straits Trading Co., 150 99.85 Total 220 tons. Tin is quoted in London to-dav at £204 cash and £l9B 10s. three
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  • TELEGRAMS.
    • 92 4 (Echo •Special.) Klumpur, July 9. Two different clans of riesha coolies are fiercely fighting in Batu Road. Bricks and bottles are strewn all over the roads. The coolies are dismantling the roofs and using the tiles for missiles. All the Police have been hurriedly called out. Some 200
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    • 66 4 (Reuter.) The Burning Isaac. London, July 8. Mr. Woodrow Wilson, who has been nominated for the Presidency, has issued a statement declaring that the dearness of living was the burning issue. Undoubtedly the tariff was the central cause of it. Roosevelt's Convention. The campaigning manager of
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    • 73 4 (Reuter.) French Victory. London, July 8. General Gourand reports from Fez that he made a night march with four battalions and mountain guns and surprised the Pretender’s camp. Fighting took place from four in the morning till the afternoon when a thousand Moors, several hundreds of whom were mounted,
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    • 121 4 (Reuter.) London, July 9. Mr. L. V. Harcourt, in moving the second reading of the Franchise Bill, emphasised that it was the Government’s intention to cirry redistribution in time for the next general election. He did not think that the house was prepared to grant female suffrage. In
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    • 32 4 Reuter.) London, July 8. A committee of journalists headed by Lawson (Lord Burnham and Lord Northcliffe have issued an appeal for a memorial to the late Mr. W. T. Stead.
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    • 37 4 (Reuter.) London, July 8. At question time in the House of Commons Mr. H.H. Asquith said that the views of Mr. Lloyd George on the necessity of land reform were shared by his colleagues. (Cheers).
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    • 138 4 Advsaee Figures. Statement of Block Tin and Tin Ore eiported, approximate value (in Singapore) and duty collected, during the months of January to June, 1912, and comparison with corresponding period of previous year. Total Tin. Increase or Decrease I*l2. ltll. +orPkla. kta. Pkla. kta. Pkl*.
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    • 255 5 OFFICIAL. London, July 8. Official telegrams from Lisbon dismiss the Valenca affair in few words but report the presence in many places of small bodies of Roralists some of whom have already lieen captured. Tke Royalist Leader. The Royalist leader, Captain Concero, with 400 men is in the
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    • 20 5 Reuter Wellington, July 8. The New Zealand Cabinet lias resigned Mr. Massey is forming a new ministry.
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    • 48 5 (Reuter London, July 8. Mr. George Wvndhaui has started an Empire Shilling Fund as a birthday present to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain to be devoted to any purpose which he selects. Many Happy Returns. London, July 8. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain was inundated with world-wide birthday greetings.
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    • 105 5 (Reuter.) Appeal for Funds. London, July 8. The Bishops of London, Winchester, Southwark, Stepney, and Woolwich made an eloquent appeal for funds to feed the scores of thousands of starving women and children who are the victims of the strike. Kins Cancels Engagement. It is officially announced that,
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    • 106 5 (Reuter.) London, July 8. All the delegates of the Wireless Conference have signed a new convent ion <on nig the revised regulations for the exc a nge of messages l>etween ships an< 8 ore provisions for rendering wireless te egrap. more effective in cases of distress. P®
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    • 20 5 (Reuter.) London, J ulv 8. General and Lady Milesi sail on J ulv 13 in the Armadale Castle.
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    • 217 5 Olympic Games. (Reuter.) London, July 8. The Americans won six out of the eight places for the final 800 metres race. Bacon’s win in the wrestling competition was in the initial stage and not in the final. In connection with the 200 miles cycling round Lake Maclar England was
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    • 42 5 (Reuter.) London, July 8. At Wimbledon in the challenge rounds, Wilding beat Gore by 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Roper Barrett and Dixon lieat Decugis •and Gol>ert by 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5. Mrs. Larcombe Prebble beat Miss Boothly by 6-4, 6-2.
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    • 479 5 Renter.) England vs. South Africans. London, July 8. The fourth test match between England and the South Africans took place at Leeds to-day. The weather was fine and about 8,000 people were present The wicket was softish. England scored 242, Wooley contributing 57 towards this total. Nourse
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 302 4 WANTED for Chinese clerk able to read and «peak Siamese, fair knowledge of English and Malay essential. Reply with copies of testimonials and stating salary expected to X. Y. Z, 9-7-12 523 c/o Strait» Echo. NOTICE. To CHONG CHEOW CHONG OR HIS REPRESENTATIVES. If the land comprised in Statutory Land
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    • 61 4 CooJ for Weik Dilation. Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets do not sicken or gripe, and may be taken with perfect safety by the most delicate woman or the youngest child. The old and feeble will also find them a most suitable remedy for aiding and strengthening their weakened digestion and
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    • 9 4 •Figures for Upper Perak and Pahang not jet available.
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  • 874 5 The Attention of Club Secretaries is invited to the following 1. The Club appearing first in a Fixture is responsible for the supply of footballs etc. 2 Rule 13 reads as follows Applications for postponements of League Fixtures must be sent in to the League
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  • 781 5 [Echo Correspondence London, June 14. At the one sitting of the full Conference, apart from the inaugural meeting, of the International Radiotelegraphic Conference, an announcement was made of acceptance by the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and also by Italy and Japan, of the principle that ships must
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  • 103 5 Penang 9lh July, 1912. 4ms Banks drafts on London 2/4 lg D/D 2/4* T/r H 24y t 3 in/s Credits 2!4 r 63 d/s 2/4 1 30 d/s 2/4* D/D Bauk buying 2/4 J New York 56£ Paris 29*' H inburg 23 s J Java, Bauk demand 140£
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  • 84 5 Arrivals. Per s.s. Malaya, 9th July, from Deli Messrs. |,o* Bum Tern, P. Ambler, A Wood, Conac, A. Betler. Tack v. Kesteren. Mrs P. Bonifas, Mr. and Mrs. H. Hallermann, Mr. and Mrs. Tunku Zuber. The ss. Malaya will sail for Deli on Thursday at 10 a.m. Tin. —Thes.s.
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  • 70 5 To- DAT 25th Da? of 5th Moon. Band, Golf Club, 6 pm. Golf Club Iladies’ Monthly Medal. Georye Town Cinematograph, Kuala Kangsar Road. I Straits Cinematograph, Penang Road. Matsuo’s Japanese Cinematograph, Penang Road. To-morrow. Day of 5th Moon. Band, Esplanade, 6 p.m. Golf Club Ladies’ Monthly Medal. P. C.
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  • 18 5 English (Delta) ...11th July China (A**aye) ...13th China (P. Eitel Friedri h) ...16th German (Luetxoir) ...18th
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  • 18 5 O New Moon July. 14th (Kiisf Quarter 21st O Full Muon 29th laist Quarter Aug. 6th
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  • 29 5 P. O. SAILINGS. Mail Servhe. Outward. Homeward Delta 11 July. I A*»aye 13 July. Egypt 2> Fxira Service. Outward Homeward. Nubia 16 July. I Simla 18 July Sardinia 29
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 46 5 Ab»t Ct'k-Sw JWt trifle with a «U U I’™ 1 1 men and womem. o(h^ m case of a cbiW. 1 liere i i f or than Cbamberl»rt*’« 1 t> coughs ami cold* in <|bi rell a „,i and sure. For sale by all D»*p® DoUfj
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    • 72 5 How i Grat fepoution W«s Won. You are not experimenting on y°« r9elf when tou take Chamberlain s Cough KemJv for a cold as that preparat.on has won ht/-reat reputation and extensive sale bv it. cures of colds, and can always deLded upon. It i< *l^? ™luable r* adults and
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    • 39 5 Prof. Schmidt prefer» (Jonosan (Santals Kawa Riedel’s) to any other preparation of Santalwood oil. Although ae ased the -Irug in more than 20 cases, he has never observed am signs of nausea, flatulency, nephritic pains, pruritus nor skin ertp^ons.
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    • 38 5 The Bnt Flatter. A piece of flionel dampened with Chamberlain’s Tain Balm and bound on over the nfferfed part* is superior to a plaster and T'tfvfs only one teuth as much. For sale by all Dupensaries and Dealers.
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    • 149 5 For Chronic Chnst Complaints Woods’ Omit Foppormint C v-K—K >rv irv >rw DOC e 1 &o. SPECIAL RACE DINNERS. TUESDAY, 16TH JULY. THURSDAY, 18TH JULY. SATURDAY, 20TH JULY. Band in attendance during and after dinner. Dancing after dinner on Thursday, IBth July. Special Tiffins every day during the Race Week.
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    • 39 5 THE GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE CO., LTD. Hbad Officb: —SINGAPORE. Life Assurance and Endowment in All Forms < LIBERAL POLICIES. LOW RATES Financial Agent* for Penang. MACBETH AND BARRETT. E. C. BOYCE. District, Manager. Local Office: —No. 7. Union Stufft.
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  • SHIPPING.
    • 62 6 Van Svcoll, Put. 1,132, Clsasen. Bth Julj, Singapore, 6th July, Genii. L. A Co. Perak, Br. s.s., 258, Glendy, 9th July, Deli, Bth July, Gen. —E. 8. Co., Ltd. Heft Canton, Br. 294, Gully, 9th July. Teluk Aneon, Bth July, Gen.— E. 8. Co., Ltd. Malaya, Ger. s s.,
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    • 71 6 9th July. Isabella, for Alor Star (Kedah). Tong Chuan, for Alor Star (Kedah). Indragiri, for Deli and Batu Balira. Petrel, for Asahan. Leona Ho, for Batu Bahra. Omapere, for Port Swettenliain and Singapore. Pangkor, for Dindings and Sitiawan. Hebe, for Teluk Anson. Dilvoara, for Singapore, China and Japan. Mambang,
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    • 342 6 Fob Yen—Per Jit Seng, to-morrow, 7 a m. Negapatam .and Madras Per Tara, to- morrow, 11 am. I Alor Star (Kedah)—Per Kedah, to- i morrow, noon. < Langsa, T. Semawe, Segli, Olehleh and Sabang—Per Atjek, to-morrow, l p.m. < Langkat and Pangkalan Bran dan—Per Chantaboou, to-morrow, 2 p.m.
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  • 123 6 Phhahq, 9th Jour. (By courtesy of the Chartered Bank.) London, Demand Bank 2/4 4 months* eight Bank 2/4^ 3 Credit 2/4 t^ 3 Documentary» 2/44 Calcutta, Demand Bank R*. 1744 3 days* sight Private 1754 Bombay, Demand Bank' 1744 Moulmein, Demand Bank 1734 M 8 days* sight Private 176
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  • 215 6 Gold Leaf 564.60 Black Pepptr no stock WTiite Pepper 34* buyers Trang Pepper 23 75 sites Cloves MS 35. —nominal Mace 124 —sellers Pickings 110 —sales Nutmegs 110 s. ...24. —buyers No. 1 8 20 sales Sugar < 2 8.10 sales (.Basket 5.15 buyers Cojra (mixed) 10.20 buyers f
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  • 188 6 Phnano, 9rH Jult, 1912. Bkbv efr. Soup per catty 2) Roast 26 Steaks 26 Stew or Curry Meat... 20 Rump Steak 26 Ox Tail each 40 Tongue... 60 Feet 20 lleart 4) Liver per catty 60 Pork— Pork per catty 32 Ptg’s Hfttd-M m 20 Feet 24 Tongue
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 36 6 IJohOHUi brings about satisfactory results without the aid of any local treatment and is the latest and most scientific Remedy and far superior to combinations of plain Sandalwood oil, Copaiba, etc. At all chemists and dealers
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    • 55 6 Her eyes were blue, her lips were pink Don’t think me mad this story’s true, Her bank was cold —and also hot, She shivered—and perspired a lot. We gave her Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1 Soon normal was her temperature She’s better now and, only think, I Her eyes are
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    • 27 6 THE CURE OF CONSUMPTION Active Principle of Cod Liver Oil with Creosote. M0RR®E (Chapoteaut) RELIABLE AGENT IN TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS OR PULMONARY PHTHISIS Sold by all Chemists.
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  • 641 7 “Wilbur Wright lios dead of typhoid fever. The pioneer who achieved the mastery of the air has succumbed to what the doctors tell us is a preventable disease," writes the Pall Mall. Iu this melancholy fact we see an epitome of man's triumphs and bis failures how
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  • 225 7 Since the death of Bjornson, August Strindberg, who recently died iu Stockholm, has lieen the foremost representative of Scandinavia in the world of letters, rays the Outlook. In his liter years he was a recluse, rarely seen in public but it is remcinl>ere<l of him that, through all
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  • 782 7 A Difficult Problem with an East Solution. The fatuous proverb. one man's meat is another niau’s poison.” applies with peculiar force to the dyspeptic, aud the same is true with regard to the drugs ordinarily presciibed f r iudigest ion. Fusliug has, of late, been
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 608 7 Co SWHITE port WINE NO. 1. LIMITED. CAPITAL Ps. 500,000. Head Office: 25, Market Street, Manilla P.I. 1 LEON MOOSER Esq., TT A Managing Director. Policies Unconditional and Incontestable and “Ketum Premium Ckuses.” ‘NO OTHER COMPANY OFFER THESE ADVANTAGES “STRICT GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION.” Tor further infoimation applv to:— TIANG LEE Co.,
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    • 60 7 ■j Waterbary’s Metabolized I Cod Liver Oil Compo u n cl C*4 U.*’ 0.1. JJr9. 1 TAIiTLLLSS O'»3ULt:: Tl.c latent scientific pre pjrauc:: of COD LIVKK OIL. Dec? all that ii claimed fer it and super sede* ihe oid fa-.hij.icd cmulsion-i which up-c! the stomach. lli"h!yrc commended by the modi
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    • 56 7 Cure hr Biliousness Biliousness is due t-> a disordered c >nditiou of the stomach. (.'handier lain’* Tablets are essentially a stomach medicine, intended especially to act on that orfcan to cleanse it, strengthen it, tone .tad invigorate it, to regulate the liver and to lanish biliousness positively and effectually. For
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 921 8 W. MANSON, American Dentist, Ut« of Dr. AUca 8 Co., Pha, l). S. A. Charges Moderate, Consultation Free. It CHIDING AT Ao. 21 a, Penang Road. 4 few loots from the Fulcra sal Oriental Hotel. TECK A COMPANY, Shanghai Carp, iters Furnishers, 4, PENANG R0£ V. High-class Household Furniture kept
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