Straits Echo, 15 May 1916
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Title Section36 1916-05-15 1 Straits Echo DAILY C.iRONiCLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS. THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. l^. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, MONDAY, l. th MAY, 1916. Sia|le C«»j, 1# MBti. No. Ill36 words
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Advertisement1096 1916-05-15 1 te&psni > [USD NATUi^ N TYRES. (BRITISH MADE). Try A help British Trade. You will be confident, if you try ROM TYRES, of their superiority in quality, reliability and durability. AGENTS: Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang Road. (TELEPHONE No. 694.) Motor Car Importers and Stockists of various kinds of1,096 words
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Advertisement13 1916-05-15 1 o>' 38 *2 m §sr. mu d n Kill 2$ aw R \V213 words
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Advertisement45 1916-05-15 2 DRINK W: uv 1111 m, 49ra OISSEURS THE v '-r-* B* i m M \iMf xs <*r r '•V*. p ft Sr. fv Ur*; i *vt gg *«»3» '8B 1 BRAND ipqp MLmM ML SOLE AG fe RS, LTD., (Incorporated in the Straits Settlements.) PENANG.45 words
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Article1131 1916-05-15 3 Francis Grieble. ] - GERMANY TRIES TO SOLVE IT. [By Francis Grieble.] The conundrum of the week is this: What is the inwardness of the feverish military pi operations in Holland and the dark hints in the German Press that the Allies are about to outrage Dutch neutrality T The riddle1,131 words
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Article546 1916-05-15 3 Thb Saoeid Compact. The Allies are not defeated; they are not going to be defeated, and they are bound together by a solemn pact not to seek or aceept a separate peace. The terms upon which we are prepared to conclude peace are the accomplishment of the546 words
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Article163 1916-05-15 3 There can be no doubt that just now no British general feels he has any fixity of tenure. One young brigadier general returning to the front this week, when parting from his brother at Victoria St&tioD, in reply to the remark Well, I suppose iu163 words
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Advertisement344 1916-05-15 3 WHALLEY'S SANITARY FLUID COMPANY, LONDON ENGLAND. Suppliers lo His Majesty’s Household:, md to The Corporation cf the CKy of London. SOLUBLE DISINFECTANT FLUID. C ,|0 iTi *>«U£r's FUH»'«luM v->« £h« ••ronfmt didnf»»*"^ Hi&Ma je ,iy s HouuhoUt snd orp f^ 1YHA1LEVI M Scwerful.Bttk And ChOP** FLUID. IVtfAl w. MAWur/w:TUR< nfli'ljf344 words
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Advertisement52 1916-05-15 3 A Good Rule for the Home. Make it a rule of your home to always keep on hand a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a safe-guard against bowel complain's. It always cures promptly and no household is safe without it. For sa’e by all Dispen1 saries52 words
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Advertisement65 1916-05-15 3 MAN do you know the danger of neglecting a chill Chills lead to pneumonia and a score of other dangerous dis* orders. Be prudent, and at the first sign of a chill take a dose or two of WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CURE. the medicine that should never be absent from65 words
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Advertisement491 1916-05-15 3 When you feel limp and washed out, weary and fatigued with no inclination for exertion—your body is in a run-down condition—you are debilitated. You need something to put fresh "go" into you—you need a fortnight's Iron 'Jelloids' treatment English price 1/1 i). Unequalled as a tonic restorative, Iron ‘Jelloids' are491 words
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Article708 1916-05-15 4 Rkichstao Scsiris. Amsterdam, April 10. The German papers are not allowed to publish any report of the wild scenes which occurred in the Reichstag at the close of Saturday’s Session, except that supplied officially from the Reichstag. Not a word may be printed of D*. Liebknecbt’s speeches, which708 words
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Article106 1916-05-15 4 Amsterdam, April 7. According to the Echo Beige, a German court-martial in Belgium has sentenced to death Mile. Gabrielle Petit, of Molenbeck, for alleged treason. She was charged with establishing and carrying on during several months an information bureau in the interests of Germany’s enemies. The execution106 words
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Article494 1916-05-15 4 The Wirelett Age, in an article quoted by the Wirelte World and entitled, Those Wireless Bomb-exploding Devices says that it is just possible that gullible newspapers and pseudoscientific jo>irnals|will now drop a certain type of story which has been appearing with regularity on an average of once494 words
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Article241 1916-05-15 4 Since the seizure by Portugal of 74 German steamers, aggregating about 250,000 tons gross, most being modern consruction although not of large size, there has been a good deal of discussion in shipping quarters here abaut the likelihoed of similar developments elsewhere. As to the United States,241 words
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Article172 1916-05-15 4 John Galswotyhy - By John Galswotyhy. Men of my blood, you English men From misty hill and misty fen, From cot, and town, and plough, and moor, Come in—bjfore I shut the door Into my courtyard paved with stones That keep the names, that keep the bones, Of non»172 words
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269 1916-05-15 4 Aw East Wat to Gain 10 to 30 lbs ov Solid, Hbaltht Perm an m T Flbsb This, nervous, undeveloped men i D( i women everywhere are heard to say," I c »n’t understand why Ido not get fat. I e »t plenty269 words
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Advertisement491 1916-05-15 4 TIANG JOO Co PENANG. Just Received a New Shipment of The JOOCOCLES Guaranteed British-made Throughout From Frame to Pedal From Tyre to Saddle Fitted Complete with DUNLOP Tyres, Limp, Bell, Ihflator Tools. $56-00 Nett. TIANG JOO OP Go., Soie ,m p° rters Craig 8 Rose Ltd. LONDON. EDINBURGH. GLASGOW. Contractors491 words
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Advertisement10 1916-05-15 4 Foi Children's Hacking Congh at Night. W.ode’Oraat Peppermint C«ra I.10 words
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Advertisement343 1916-05-15 4 TRANSLATION. r.HE UNDERSIGNED undertake, to translate any document from English into Chinese and vice versa. Also Chinese accounts into English. Fees according to the following scale: (1) For translation for insertion in the Straits Echo or the Pinang Sin Poe or to be printed by the Jobbing Department of the343 words
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Article1029 1916-05-15 5 THIRD CUP FINAL. Hutton Lank Wixg Cup. The Third Cup Final under the auspices of the Mohamedan Football Association, which was played off at the Dato Kramat Gardens on Saturday evening, between the Football Club and the Crescent Star Sports Club, was witnessed by a large I1,029 words
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Article425 1916-05-15 5 P C C. vs, Mr. Ezbohiel’s XI. The cricket match between tho P.C.C. and Mr. Ezochiel’s XI, which was played on the Esplanade on Saturday Afternoon, proved a very interesting game, aud resulted m a for the latter team by six wickets. Tho P.C.C., winning the toss, elected to425 words
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Article192 1916-05-15 5 The Norwegian s.s, Providence which arrived here this morning from Moulmein is discharging 13,500 bags of rice. The N Y.K. s.s. Hirano Alaru is scheduled to leave here for Europe at Ba.m. tc-morrow. Captain R. D. Caswell, of the Eastern Shipping Company’s s.s. Pangkor, which arnved here this192 words
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Article96 1916-05-15 5 The final race of 220 yards in the Gibbons Cup Competition took place at the Swimming Club yesterday with the following result;— Start. Ist S. A. Yell 4 secs. 2nd C. A. Padday 27 3rd G. M. Terzan i Scratch There were 5 starters and Mr.96 words
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Advertisement403 1916-05-15 5 < </3 o u 0J M 0 u a a) c/3 z z < E O 3 CQ 0 (0 _i < SCOTCH WHISKY S ri- ScotchW hisky 'OIAS0 ow*i SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT” BLACK WHITE ALWAYS THE HIGHEST QUALITY 1* 0) o r O IB •< > r r403 words
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Advertisement486 1916-05-15 5 The Egyptian Favourite among those who have sufficient knowledge of the essentials of a perfect Egyptian Cigarette is one or other of the brands known as Bouton Rouge and Felucca Egyptian Cigarettes l n!ii you have smoked them you really have not realised the perfection to which the manufacture of486 words
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Article, Illustration98 1916-05-15 6 Fnhliahtd daily (except Sunday» and jtnblii koiidayi) AT TSa CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street Penang. Fuoa. Daily Local M $24 per tnnnaa OmUUtioa... Postage Extra. Mftil Edition (Poet Free) $17.50 CASH ADDXIII ECHO—rENANG." Telephone Noe. Echo, SSS > Printing Department 343 ire.—AU hiiMM miiun.ut'o» ibcuM98 words
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Article1333 1916-05-15 6 It is doubtful whether the American citizen quite realises how the Briton regards the inconsistency of sympathy with neutrality. We understand their isolation, and do not complain. Yet there is a hiatus somewhere. It is not that the Briton identifies himself with the American ho1,333 words
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Article30 1916-05-15 6 May 11 By Balance 12.632.36 13 Ladies’ Bridge Book at Golf Club, contribution for April 14 00 13 By Balance 2,646.36 Amount previously acknowledged 23,913.74 Total 826,560.1030 words
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Article902 1916-05-15 6 Mr. H. H. Stevens has been appointed an assistant registrar of Imports and Exports. Mr. E. Cheers, police probationer, is appointed an assistant supt. of police for the Colony. Mr. H. C. Sells, Collector of Land Revenue, leaves for home on long leave about the 27th instant.902 words
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Article1040 1916-05-15 6 L Otk the Victory." just now the Union Flag is beine at the main of the old Victory in Portsmomk H arb T r T the the i the Ql i n Fla «eemsto be a common enough affair. Actually this is a very ra™ event, and the1,040 words
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Advertisement282 1916-05-15 6 Failure to secure rod quality will be a source of much regret. We only select goods that can be absolutely relied upon to give thorough and lasting satisfaction r' m as B The Alexander M Car will not fail to satisfy you. Body made of wood with fine coach finish282 words
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Article1240 1916-05-15 7 (Reuter’s Service). Copyright Telegram. FIGHTING AT VERDUN. Aaatkar Germaa Defeat. London, May 11, 3.55 p.m. Another German defeat at Verdun is the feature of the Paris communique issued to-day. West of the Meuse the artillery was 1 1 vely while a,t of the Meus ak 2 o’clock1,240 words
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Article594 1916-05-15 7 (Inter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. Eaemy Offcasivc at Jaeokatadt. i Petrograd, May 13. 1 A Petrograd communique states that enemy has assumed a stubborn offensive of the region of Jacobstadt which continues. The usual minor fighting took place elsewhere. Figktiag Rouad Pripat. Petrograd, May 13. A communique reports594 words
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Article620 1916-05-15 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. Sinking of Swediak Steamer. Stockholm, May 13. The captain of the Swedish schooner Harald, in giving an account of the •inking of the ship by a German submarine in the North Sea on the stb inst., says the crew was ordered to leave in620 words
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Article695 1916-05-15 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. Relief Schemes. London, May 13. Sir Edward Gray, in regard to the proposal of the 10th, has agreed to the'American scheme for the relief of the population of Poland provided that Germany will pay the expenses of the transport in German ships entirely free695 words
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Article25 1916-05-15 7 To-day's Quotation». Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day at $96. buyers no sellers, and in Singapore (refined) at $96.50, business done (50 tons •old).25 words
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Article550 1916-05-15 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. FURTHER SENTENCES. London, May 11. In the House of Commons Mr. H. J. Tennant, Under-Secretary of State for War, announced that the following sentence* had been passed in connection with the revolt at Dublin Executed 14, penal servitude 73, hard labour 6, deported550 words
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Article90 1916-05-15 7 The following articles will be found on our outside pages:— Page. 3. —The Dutch Situation. Allies’ Peace Terms. Old General* and New Brooms. 4. —Wireless and Bomb Exploding. Liebknecht Ejected. Belgian Lady Executed. England to Free Men. Germany’s Tied-Up Ships. s.—Mohamedan Football Association. Shipping News. Penang Swinming Club. B.—Legislative90 words
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Article824 1916-05-15 8 Medical Practitioner* and Form*» Qualifications. A meeting of the Legislative Council was held on Friday, at which there wore present H.E. the Governor (Sir A. H. Young, K.C.M.G.), H.E. the General Officer Commanding the Troops (Brigadier-General D. H. Ridout C.M.G.), the acting Colonial Secretary (Hon W. G. Maxwell,824 words
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Article662 1916-05-15 8 Annual Gknrral Meeting. The annual general meeting of the mem- bers of the Parish Hall was held at the hall yesterday morning with the Rev. L. M. Duvelle, President (ex-office) in the chair. Others present were Messrs. Fred Aeria I (Vice-President) C. P. C. Aeria, C. L. RobI662 words
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Article329 1916-05-15 8 On Saturday afternoon a time and speed judging competition was held amongst members of tho club, and for a first competition of this kind, proved very successful. The competitors started from the corner of Barrack Road and Race Course Road. All devices by which speed or time329 words
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Article649 1916-05-15 8 Tennis Tournamnnt. The draw for the Golf Clnb Lawn Tennis Tournament has resulted as follows: Men’s Open Singles. A M Forrest bye 7 S F B Martin j C Cunradi M M St9wart C R A Goatley 7 F W Harries J Sellar A W Harries C649 words
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Article483 1916-05-15 8 The stately ceremony carried out recently at Johore, when His Highness the Sultan was formally presented with the Insignia of the Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, says Friday’s 8.F.P., possesses for all in Malaya a more than passing483 words
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Article288 1916-05-15 8 Monday, May 15. Town Band, Esplanade, 6 p.m. Penang Volunteers —Battalion Drill, Esplanade, 5.30 p.m. Recruit Drill, Chinese Company, Fort Cornwallis, 5.30 p.m. Ambulance Co. Drill, Fort Cornwallis 5.30 p.m. P.L.R.C. Shoot—Rifle Range, 5 p.m. Penang Assizes OpeD. Straits Cinema, Penang Road, 9 15 p m. The288 words
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Article115 1916-05-15 8 Penang», May 15 r {B co e *y of Me Chartered Bank London, Demand Bank 4 months’ sight Bank JfA 3 Credit 2/413/lg Calcutta,kmiud 3 days s’ght Private I7fi Bombay, Demand Bank p., Moulmein, Demand Bank p,» 3 dsyV sight Private h Madras Demand Bank 3 days’ s ght115 words
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Advertisement503 1916-05-15 8 WANTED. Engineer assistant with knowledge of Rubber Manufacture for Estate in Perak. Apply to G. J. M. KEULEMANS, 4 F M.B. Railway Buildings 23t Penang. WANTED JFOR OFFICE IN MEDAN. Experienced Shorthand Typist. Apply in person to THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co.. (S.S.) Ltd, 220. Weld Quay. TRONOH MINES. LIMITED. (Incorporated503 words
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Advertisement64 1916-05-15 8 For a Lame Back. When you have pains or lameness in the back batho tbo parts with Chamberlain’s Pain Balm twice a day, massaging with the palm of the hand for five minutes at each application. Then dampen a piece of flannel slightly with this liniment and bind it on64 words
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Advertisement45 1916-05-15 8 Now Is the Time. For rheumatism you will find nothin* better than Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. Now is the time to get rid of it. Try this liniment and sea how quickly it will relieve the pain and soreness. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.45 words
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Advertisement279 1916-05-15 8 “E. O.” empTrĕ day. 24TH MAT. Special Dinner. The Sinn ex* will be charged $3 a head a,nd all the takings will be banded over* to the Penang Fighter BOOK YOUR SEATS NOW, Kampong Kamunting Tin Dredging Limited. NOTICE TO SHARE-HOLDERS Share-holders resident in the Federated Malaj States and Straits279 words
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Article1209 1916-05-15 9 SEA CUSTOM IN THE PABT. Examplbs v&om Hutoit. The Naval Correspondent of tbe Timet writes:— Bj the decision not to recognise the claim of Germanj to torpedo armed merchant ships without warning, the United States Government acknowledges the right of trading ships to carry weapons for their own1,209 words
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Article415 1916-05-15 9 What is claimed to be the first detailed accounts of the aeiial fight between Lieut Brandon, R.F.C., and Zepplin Ll 5, which tank in the Thames Estuary, is published by the Leicester Daily Mercury Lieutenant Brandon left the ground with instructions from his commanding officer to patrol415 words
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Article229 1916-05-15 9 The German Emperor issued the following exhortation to his troops 14 The treaty of 1871 was signed in Paris. Go forward, my belovtd soldiers This time it is the end. The treaty will be signed at Verdun.” Tbe survey school which Government is shutting up from motives229 words
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Advertisement197 1916-05-15 9 2 z o cn ca M PENANG LIBRARY. (Opposite St. George’s Church.) Comprises some 20,000 Volumes, including the valuable Logan Library of Literature dealing with Malaya and the Eastern Archipelago. Entrance Fee: $2-00. Suhecrivtion: Books: $1-50 per quarter. Newspapers and Magazines: $1-50 per quarter. Visiting Subscribers $1-00 per month without197 words
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Advertisement52 1916-05-15 9 Always Recommend It. In almost every community there is some one whose life has been saved by Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Such persons seldom miss an opportunity to recommend it, and these recommendations and its never failing qualities account for its great popularity. For sale by all Dispensaries52 words
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Advertisement329 1916-05-15 9 Baby never Cries now he has his Glaxo, because it satisfies him. After his food he sleeps restfully and awakes refreshed, day by day building up health and strength and a sound constitution. To baby's mother Glaxo is a comfort, because it contains only that which baby should have and329 words
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Article1073 1916-05-15 10 After a prolonged defence extending to 143 days, General Townshend baa been compelled to surrender at Kut, aaya the Bangoon Time». Only a few days ago, a special effort was made to repleniab the supplies of Qeneral Townabend’s force which were known to be of the1,073 words
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Article891 1916-05-15 10 SERIOUS EVENTB MAT BE IMPENDING.** GBBMAire I* BTMXCTI. Serious events are impending on the i British front, says the military correspondent of the Tims* in an important article i discussing the position at Verdun. i The central fact on the Western front, he says, is that the German891 words
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Advertisement81 1916-05-15 10 Croup. This disease is so dangerous and so rapid in its development that every mother of joung children should be prepared for it. It is very risky to wait until the attack of croup appears and then send for medicine and let the child suffer until it can be obtained.81 words
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Advertisement185 1916-05-15 10 Hutteakch Bios. S COMPANY. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS CONTRACTORS. SOLE AGENTS FOR: of ELECTRICAL MACHINERY Free Estimates Given for all Kinds of Electrical Work. Mining Plants and PriYate Lighting Installations a Speciality. AGENTS FOR: THE STERLING TELEPHONE GO., LIE. Large Stocks of Telephones are kept and Private Installations can be Started on185 words
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Article1437 1916-05-15 11 The American newspapers, which have now reached this country, rather weaken the impression, which the cables gave us, of the ▼otes which President Wilson secured last month in the Senate and House of Representatives on the submarine question. They show that the ''tabling” resolutions, on which1,437 words
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Article539 1916-05-15 11 j Notwithstanding the remarkable increase j in size of German airships, even greater craft i are being seriously discussed. Herr C. Dernier, Count Von Zeppelin’s associate eni gineer, in an article contributed to the proceedings of a body corresponding to the i British Institute of Naval539 words
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Article176 1916-05-15 11 When a patient mentions headache* the doctor seeks for the cause, and in most cases finds it in some derangement of the nervous or digestive system. Headache, as is well known, is one of the commonest symptoms of a weak disordered stomach, or exhausted nervous system176 words
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Advertisement391 1916-05-15 11 Have you a Rheumatic Friend Tell him about Littlb'.s Oriental Balm, a modern emancipator from the ache3 aud pains of the human body. No mere relief, but permanent freedom from the tortures and deformities of rheumatism. The cure has been achieved not once, not a few times, but thousands of391 words
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