Straits Echo, 11 November 1915

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR BAST GENERALLY. VOL. 13. $24 Per Annul?., PENANG, THURSDAY, 11th NOVEMBER, 1915. Siftile Cap;, 10 canti. No. 259
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    • 1023 1 g ‘*ao a aai onvix n Lr* W! < p i. O rT v y "-2 V' v* Kr.vtrs y-x.v 3# scr] BANKS. For Cars on Hire fZr'. ■4 The TAI SENG Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation. EMPIRE "The Lillie Arlslocm*’* Call at or
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    • 18 1 m TO LET. M 1 BUNGALOW No. 1428, BURMAH ROAD. LOCATION QUIET (i HEALTHY. APPLY 53, Beach Street.
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  • 1821 3  -  GANDA SINGH. (By “L. J.”) Not at the time, perhaps, but later on, as wo grow old, we begin to realise that true devotion is a thing we rarely obtain in life, and never can replace. I was thinking of Ganda Singh, who sometimes comos back to haunt
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    • 147 3 Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. When you have a bad cold you want a remedy that will not only give relief, but effect a prompt and permanent cure, a remedy that is pleasant to take, a remedy that contains nothing injurious. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy meets all these requirements. It acts on nature’s
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    • 741 3 iiEareriX-ZTT’ IJTJj&C BE23EESEBFS? I !i Ur. Morses Indian Koot nils are not si Jl\ forces the food out of the body, depriving A and thus starving the system. They contair A HOUSEHOLD NECESSITY. N the best regulated families the little ills of life will creep in. Some member of the
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  • 1150 4 The question of the employment of disabled officers on estates in Ceylon and the F. M. S. has been raised in the Time». In the first instance, a correspondent who professed to speak with intimate knowledge of the tea and rubber planting industries in Malay States
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  • 798 4 The Promise of Constitutionalism. One of the most interesting developments of the past week has been the clear indications from more than one source that when a monarchy comes, as it seems almost bound to do, it will not be a mere despotism. The President is insisting upon
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    • 221 4 The Anglo-Japanese Dispensary, 393 A 395, Chulia Street, PENANG. Qualified «Japanese Doctor always in attendance. All kinds of Patent Medicines and Proprietary Articles held in Stock. Prescriptions carefully dispensed. Attention, Civility and Moderate Charges guaranteed. PLEASE 6IVE OS A TRIAL. RAI SAHEB Dr. K. C. DAS’S SWASTHYA SAHAYA HEALTH RESTORER
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    • 40 4 Early Golds. Be careful of tbe colds you take at this time of the year. They are particularly dangerous. A neglected cold may mean a win-ter-long cold. Take Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy at once. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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    • 54 4 MOTHER’S FRIEND.—So effectual is that wonderful medicine, WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CORE. in correcting the ailments of children, that it has been truly christened. Children’s coughs, colds, whooping cough, croup yield to it like a charm. Never be without a bottle in the house. Sold by Dispensaries and Stores everywhere at
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    • 308 4 I0C DOC DOC DOCDOCDOCDOC DOC DOCZZDtH o r\ THE MAINSTAY OF THE CLUB. vYv. V, o n O o 0 0 0 0 o o r> O X' WtZffk af? s s' r5? Z |M V rri K y /> a a. SEPSIf# jfffiflfl Wif M;P I 4 *Hf> o
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  • 954 5 Men at the front in France are still pretty confident of the war being over in the comparatively near future. One we know of has just bet his sister in Penang a pair of gloves to a pipe that next January will see the the end of actual
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  • 347 5 Old Ofbbndeb Charubd. Before Mr. R. Bcott in the District Court this morning a Malay, named Mohamed bin Kassim, was charged with theft of two pelecat sarongs, valued at $3.20. at Tye Sin street on October 30. The complainant Pakiri Pillay, a Government pensioner, stated that at
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  • 183 5 Province Company. Yesterday the Maiay Volunteers of Province Wellesley, having, after a patient time of waiting, received the long-expected official authorization, executed their lirst official Recruit Drill in front of the Darul Mohibah Ciub,” beside Butterworth Jetty. Sergeant S.A.M. Noor, the military organizer or the movement, took charge
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  • 120 5 Nov. 8 By Balance $1,900.66 10 The employees of Cal edonia Estate for October Mr I, V Lowe 17.86 Mr L F Smith 15.00 Mr W B Wilson 50.00 Mr W M Miller 28.57 Mr J M Kydd 2143 Mr A Forsyth 13 39 Mr G H
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  • 53 5 Nov. 9By Balance ...$41,166.11 10 W. B. Wilson of Caledonia Estate, October Subscription 50.00 Hon. A. R. Adams monthly subscription 100.00 Eastern Smelting Ltd. Employees Datoh Kramat Works, Oct. subscription 173.65 10 Balance, 41,489.76 Remitted to London £lO,OOO on 24-2-15... 85,618.73 Total subscriptions
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    • 213 5 < UJ o UJ K -J < o UJ 0. m z < z < X o 3 OQ o (/> j < SCOTCH WHISKY UCHANAN SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT’ ps X > s; BLACK WHITE —lx*'x? 4 ALWAYS THE• HIGHEST QUALITY Pfl 90 PO rt> TJ ■D > a
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    • 366 5 Smokers of discrimination J5he always select GARRICK SMOKING TOBACCO GAB hi c Inking to It has the distinction of invigorating the nerves and brain of the business man. not burn or irritate the throat. Does y ad Extraordinary Announcement! SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS AT THE STRAITS CINEMA 'PHONE NO. 628, TO-NIGHT I
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  • 95 6 Published daily (except Sundays mid publio holidays) AT TBS CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59. Beach Street, Penang. Pbicb. Daily Local $24 per aaczrr Ovtetation... Postage Extra. Hail Edition (Poat Free) $17.50 CABLB ADDBBSS ECHO—PENANG." Telephone Not. (Echo, 583 Printing Department 343 N tS. —All buaiaasa eomnunieatioaa «honld
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  • 1403 6 Prussia is la a measure solving the problem of what we *rot > do with Germany after the war by the casualty lists she is piling up. Taking it that cue iu five of th < Prussian casualties is a death, the 2,099,454 losses now recorded fir that
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  • 906 6 The funeral of the lite Mrs. Ng Pak San will take place on Sunday morning. "9 Mr. H. VV. Oxenham is going on satisfactorily alter bis recent operation. Mr. Brindley, of Johore. has obtained a commission and has been sent to the Mediterranean. 9 9 9 9
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  • 181 6 {.from Our Own CorrexjioruUml.'). Singapore November 11. The celebrations in honour of the Coronatiou of the Emperor of Japan were very success! ul. Iu lie afternoon Mr. Minoru Fnjii, th* Japanese Consul received his ‘nationals, and the Japanese cruiser 111 the harbour tired a s vlntc. Sub
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  • 68 6 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, November 11. Messrs. Fraser and Co’s weekly report states that rubber shares show substantial advances all round. The market is gradually widening and there has been room for substantial profits on advance, but it is a matter of regret that the colonies
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  • 74 6 (/Vow Our Own CorrctpondonU) Singapore, November 11. At the Singapore Rubber Auction 287 tons of rubber were offered for 3ale and 247 tons were sold at tho following prices Smoked sheets 5137 to $143 per picul fair $136 plain $l3O $l3B Unsmoked plain $125 $l3O Crepes $l4l
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  • 414 6 Litters posted at Dato Kram.it and K. AO. Hotel Sub-Post Offices and in the Pillar-boxes before 5 p.in. to-morrow will be in time to catch the Homeward Mail. Letters etc, for despatch by the Homeward P, A O. Packet Novara may be posted at the Head Office up
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    • 170 6 To Introduce our s ICED COLOGNE so that after the war there will be no room for the GERMAN article for the present month only we offer 5 Bottles at the Price of 4. The only condition is tiiat the 6 Botiles must be a single purchase. Prices: 40 and
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  • 702 7 (Reuter Service) Copyright Telegram. VIOLENT GERMAN BOMBARDMENT. Loudon, November 9, 4.30 p m. A Paris communique states that a recipro- i cal fusillade took place at Loos, while further south patrol-tightiog took place to our advantage. Violent German bombardments took place in Champagne and also at Beuvraignes.
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  • 638 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. BULG .RIAN LOSSES. i Paris, November 9. i Toe Serbian Legation in Paris announces that the Bulgarian lossas at Kralicvo were 80,000. Italian Participation. Paris, November 9. According to a telegram froai Rome, it is semi-offioiall&y stated that the Bulgarians, by threatening Albania in
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  • 438 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. FURTHER SUCCESSES. i Petrograd, November 10. j A Petrograd communique states that the Russians scored further successes along the whole front and occupied the Kemmern district iu OourUnd, capturing much material which the fleeing Germans abandoned. The Russians stormed villages near Jacobstadc and
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  • 382 7 During one of the recent fights, says a wire from Petrograd last month, an officer of the German General Staff was killed, and in hi 6 possession were discovered some very interesting letters, showing the position of affairs in Germany. One of the chiefs of the army
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  • 585 7 (Reuter Service.) Copyright Telegram. BY AUSTRIAN SUBMARINE. HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. Ferryville, Tunis, November, 10. At one o’clock on Monday afternoon the j Ancona, bound for New York, was sunk off Cap Carbonara by a large submarine flying t the Austrian flig. The submarine fired a a
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  • 1305 7 (Reuter Service.) Copyright Telegram. TRIBUTE TO LORD KITCHENER i, BY MR. A. J. BALFOUR. j, London, November 0. At the Guildhall Banquet, Mr. A. J. Balfour, mnid riagiug cheer«, paid .a tribute to Lord Kitchener’s genius for raising armies. He emphasised that the calculations of the Central Pow
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  • 89 7 Tho following articles will bo fouud on our outsido pages: Page. I 3.—Tiighter Freights. 4. —China’s Future. Disabled Officers as Planter*. 5. —Random Notes. Theft of Sarongs. Malay Volunteers. Belgian Relief Fund. The Prince of Wales War Relief Fund. 8-—Pulau Bulang Rubber. Queen Mary’s Needlework Guild. Naval Notes Opium
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  • 740 8 Directors’ Report. The following is the report of the directors of Fulau Bul&ng Rubber and Produce Co, Ltd., a summary of which our Singapore j correspondent wired yesterday. I Your Directors submit herewith a duly audited Statement of the Accounts of the I Company for the year
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  • 130 8 Penang Women’s Work. Amount previously acknowledged $705.20 Mrs. McHutchinson Taiping 10.00 Mrs. Walker-Reid 10.00 The Rev. A. B. Champion 200 Mrs. Magill 100 Mrs. Jacques 100 Mr. E. B. Williams 1 00 Mrs. A. B. Voules (3rd Donation) 8.80 Mrs. Trengrove (3rd 5.00 Mrs. G. E.
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  • 669 8 ESTIMATING OUR ANTI-SUB-MARINE SUCCESSES. Conflicting Statement*, London, October 8. Several weeks ago the leading ter vice paper in America declared that the Navy Department had information at its disposal justifying the belief that fifty German sub- marines had been accounted for since the beginning of the war, and
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  • 248 8 Record Seizure at Singapore. Mr. J. Bryne, Acting Head of Preventive Service, with the assistance of Supervisors J. Listerman, C. V. Ganno, G. Nunn and F. J. Elms, and about 30 Revenue officers, boarded the s.s. Cyclops, a Blue Funnel ship, as she came alongside section 8 on
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  • 687 8 ONE FACTORY CHIMNEY OUT OF FIVE SMOKING. A Neutral’* Impressions. It was with a certain amount of trepidation that we arrived at the German frontier, where we were folded like sheep before the shearers, marching one by one past the point of the bayonet of
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  • 187 8 Friday, 12th November 1915. Esplanade, 6to 7 p.m. 1 Overture Oberon Wever. 2 Two Step Laughing Water Hager. 3 Selection La Traviata... Verdi. 4 Walti Wedding of the Winds Hall. 5 March Royal St. Marceaux... Desormes. It is hard, says the 1.D.N.,.t0 avoid swearing when one reads of
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  • 463 8 arrivals and departures. Payment ob' Recruiting Allowances! A Meeting of the Indian Immigration Committee was held at Penang on the Bth November. There were present: The Controller of Labour (Mr. J. R. O. Alworth), The Principal Medical Officer, F. M. S. (DiJ C. L. Sansom), the Hon’ble
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  • 507 8 Two decades ago certain philosophers and politicians mainly American, were much concerned over the future of the white races which they considered was threatened by the teeming millions of Asia, especially Chinese, and the bogey of the yellow peril was flaunted before affrighted Westerners in order
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 518 8 WANTED. "I7IOR Tin Mine in the Jungle, Clerk and Jj Store-keeper. Salary according to qualifications. t Apply to < No. 69, < 657 c/o Strailt Echo. 1 The Eastern United Assurance Corporation Ltd. Head Office: SINGAPORE. The undersigned has been appointed Agent for the above Corporation, and is now prepared
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    • 12 8 For Children’s Hacking Cough at Night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is. 6d
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    • 49 8 Accidents Will Happen. It may be impossible to prevent an accident, but it is not impossible to be prepared for it. Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is not beyond anyone’s purse, and with a bottle of this liniment you are prepared for most anything. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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    • 55 8 Chronic Constipation. Chamberlain’s Tablets can and do cure constipation. One or two of these tablets taken at bed time will keep the bowels open, and while doing so will invigorate the stomach and put the disordered liver in a condition to do its work in a natural manner. For sale
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    • 479 8 NOTICE LABOUR CODE. 1912, F.M.S Indian Immigration Fund Ordinance 1911." Employees op Indian labour are hereby reminded that assessment returns for the preceding quarter must he sent to the Office of the Deputy Controller of Labour, Penang, during the months of April, July, October and January. Forms for the return
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  • 670 9 PROPOSED PROGRAMME. (UNDER S.R.A. RULES OF RACING.) NOTICE No amendments to this Programme will be considered unless due notice is given in writing to the Secretary at least seven days before the date of the Special General Meeting, i.e„ 22nd November, 1915. The notice
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  • 499 9 Much interest attaches to the official state* ment published in our columns regarding the flotation of the Fourth Year Domestic Loan, from which it is apparent that a sum of nearly two millions dollars was subscribed above the twenty four millions dollars, the amount required. The result must
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  • 392 9 PROPER IRONY OF THE DAILY 1 NEWS.” The Captains. Depart.’ “By general desire,” began the war correspondent in the Russo-Japanese war, but the Japanese Censor was too quick for him. You are mistaken,” he said! there is no general of that name.” The story has usually been regarded
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  • 344 9 Official Minutm. Minutes of a Special Meeting of the Municipal Commissioners held on Tuesday the 26th October, 1915, Present W. Peel Esq, President. P. T. Allen, Esq. Quah Beng Kee, Esq. Yeoh Guan Seok, Esq. Absent Lim Eow Hong, Esq. John Mitchell, Esq. A. F. Goodrich, Esq. A.
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  • 207 9 Some people are naturally thin. There is also a natural pallor but most people who are both thin and pale are far from well and they need a tonic. Many people neglect to take a tonic until they get so sick that a tonic is not sufficient just
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 370 9 METHYLATED SPIRITS! (QUALITY GUARANTEED.) Wholesale Price $3-50 per tin of 4 gellons. Retail price 20 cents per quart bottle. OBTAINABLE AT CHEAH KEE EE Co., 56, China Street, Penang. RUNNYMEDE HOTEL. PENANG. Centrally situated on the sea-front; to be considered as a re d HEALTH RESORT. English Continental Cuisine. Java
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    • 9 9 For Chronic Chest Complainte, Woods’,Great Peppermint Cure Is, 6d
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    • 127 9 FOR SINGAPORE, HONGKONG. SWATOW S AMOY. The B.H. Qlenfalloch, Captaiu A. Mackenzie, will leave for the above ports on Saturday, the 13th instant, at 4 p.m. For Freight or passage apply to Messrs. CHIN HIN Coy,, 63, Beach Street, Penang. Agents for the Ho Hong Line of Singapore. Michelin Tyres.
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    • 401 9 Look at this bonnie Glaxo reared Baby—she is only S months old. 1 9 Baby is nourished only by what he digests jj —not necessarily by all the food he swallows. For instance, the curd of unmodified cow’s milk forms, in baby’s stomach, a solid, indigestible mass which causes him
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  • 1292 10 Ska-Soldiers. Many regiments carry on their colours a long list of battle-honours the Royal Marines hare but one. The reason is that if all the battle-honours to which the Marines are entitled were to be set down the job would be one for a publisher,
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  • 739 10 SOLDIER WHO SAW A LONG LINE OF WHITE FORMS. Sent bt Unsken Power In a letter addressed to Mr. Arthur Marhen, author of The Bowmen," Private J. East, of the 9th Lincolns, writes The third division marched mio Mods through a street of flags and excited Belgians.
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    • 49 10 Accidents Will Happen. It may be impossible to prevent an accident, but it is not impossible to be prepared for it. Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is not beyond anyone’s purse, and with a bottle ot this liniment you are prepared for most anything. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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    • 178 10 —BEBaHHE r.-^gianußf! 6 GSTTRSSit JSUIUUft „iA^!SaaBM JEdSUC-. S 3 1 s 3 v-A m Just Arrived 1915-16 Model No 5 #1 J v Hi fa i otr&nm m ash* W VS t NETT. Finished in Brewester Green with Ivory Linings, Electric Starter, Electric Lights throughout, Electric Horn, One Man Hood,
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  • 2582 11 Often a desire takes us to lift the opaque, impersonal veil which hangs between us and the campaign in Russia. The people who experience things most deeply and have given treasures of feeling to the modern world seem to be cut off from us just at
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  • 471 11 Joffre Conducted Battle From a Wine Shop. A graphic description of the manner in which Heneral Joffre conducted the great French advance is contained in a Paris cable despatch from Mr. C F. Bertelli, which is published in the Toronto Globe. “Of the two battles waged in
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    • 61 11 A Favorite Rub Down. The golfer, the football player and the all round athlete know the value of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. It is just the thing for a rub down after a hard game. A.ll soreness disappears like magic and sprainß and swellings are cured in one-third less time than
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    • 55 11 Chronic Constipation. Chamberlain’s Tablets can and do cure constipation. One or two of these tablets taken at bed time will keep the bowels open, and while doing so will invigorate the stomach and put the disordered liver in a condition to do its work in a natural manner. For sale
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    • 292 11 8 u D BY APPOINTMENT iX TO H. M. THE KING NESTLE CHOCOLATE FOR THE FRONT. Having been requested by severe! Residents in the Malay Peninsula to send parcels of Nestle Chocolates to relatives or friends at the Front, we have now made arrangements to send parcels from our London
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    • 1435 12 IL St £3 0» S.N.C° Wireless Telegraphy, fitted on all Steamers. All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans FREE of Charge and each berth is furnished with an Eleotric Reading Lamp. Expected Arrivals and Departures. Mail Service. For Singapore BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. Intundid to Sa.il. Steamer. Fri.,
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