Straits Echo, 13 September 1917
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Title Section35 1917-09-13 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. yOL. 16. $24 Per >nnum PENANG, THURSDAY, 13th SEPTEMBER, 1917. Single Copy, It cents No. 215.35 words
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Advertisement1120 1917-09-13 1 pr^MAiD via 0 *4 k*. /M I *»•>*> ar* 5 |H< *QAS3rfi£ H&ifrk The Georgetown n I northam road AND FARGUHAR street. Telegraphic address: Hokimteik. Phone No. 694 IS ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE. CARS FOR HIRE A fl j et of Brand mw C»rs f> r hire day aud uight1,120 words
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Advertisement17 1917-09-13 1 mm. m 0, c-, is ft ft llfr tiiiih m ft (A I?» S a? 1! tm />//17 words
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Advertisement15 1917-09-13 2 RECOGNISED CONNOISSEURS SOLE AGENTS: HE LEAEIHG BRAND OH HE UAREEI. (INCORPORATED IN THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.)15 words
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Article1212 1917-09-13 3 THE ULTIMATE FACTOR. Bx Footslogger.” We shall not win the war this year. It W >H take too much time and it will cost too much to beat Germany on lend, We shall have to wait for the Americans to send as the air-fleets which will1,212 words
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Article360 1917-09-13 3 The appeal by Mr, A. VanCuylenberg and Mr, D. Graham against the decision of the Ipob Supreme Court in the famous Perak Water Rights Case was mentioned at the Full Court of Appeal oo Tuesday morning, before Mr Justice Innes, Mr. Justice Earnshaw, and Mr, Justice E360 words
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Article365 1917-09-13 3 Rumours or a Cheap Salk. Aa a result of China’s declaration of war against Germany and Austria, various kinds of enemy property such as merchant v ssels, etc, hive been confiscated by the Government in accordance with Interns- i oel Liw. A great deal of the365 words
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Advertisement1299 1917-09-13 3 PENANG AUCTION MART. by order of the administrator of the estate OF PILOT EUSOOF GUNNY, deceased TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION, On Monday, 17th Sept., 1917, AT 11 i.M. (SATUEDAY. SUNDAY AMD PUBLIC HOLIDAY* EXCEPTED) AT the ARCHWAY OF LOGAN'S BUILDINGS, BEACH STREET, PENANG. The foitovtiing Properties:— 1 LOT1,299 words
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Advertisement29 1917-09-13 3 Seep It Handy. Immediate relief ia neceaiary in attacks of diarrhoea. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy should always be on hand. For sale by all dispensaries and dealers,29 words
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Advertisement12 1917-09-13 3 For Children's Hacking Cough at Night. Woodi’ Great Peppermint Cere le. 6d12 words
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Advertisement182 1917-09-13 3 r BALLANTINE’S n ii 3 Ring Pilsener Beer 3 Ring Stout ASK FOR 3 RINGS.” iCThe mark of auaiity> purity, strength and flavour wedded with “3 RINGS/’ y SANDILANDS, BDTTERY Co., PENANG and SINGAPORE. SOLE DISTRIB0TORS FOR Straits Settlements, F.M.S. and E.C. Sumatra. J BLUE “MYSTO” n f v ail182 words
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Article1720 1917-09-13 4 The upb-inging of daughters is a very v-x d question just row. W&at are we to bring them up to P M<trim«nv, nr pnfe«si< ns, or Mr*, C D. Whetham, who b<« j J*»r. writfen a b->< k ont'e subj c The Upbringing of Laughter» (Longmans and1,720 words
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Advertisement375 1917-09-13 4 Indian Regd. Design 2611. English Regd. Design 646 599. English Patent 12 033. Swiss Patent 84 228. Australian Patent *****. y< 2* (x V'A u, m m ss; THA r N/ STY LEATHER rWt LSTRAP a/ G O .V N E A g a n YOU PRACTICE ECONOMY WHEN YOU375 words
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Advertisement72 1917-09-13 4 Are Ton Going on a Journey? ChambprUin’s Col c, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy shou d be packed in you»- b*nd lapjjagp when Dg on i j mrnrj, Change of wafer, d;et. and temperature all tend or produce bowel troub e, and this medicine cannot be secured on board the t72 words
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Advertisement239 1917-09-13 4 —-the CRITERION PRESS limited. NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given tv, a L teenth Ordinary Genera the fif Shareholders of the Criterion FW the terl, will be held at the Office 0 f tie Shipping Co Titd No 41, Beach R? tern m business. 1 To read and confirm the minutes239 words
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Article489 1917-09-13 5 I A correspondent who occnpies a promin* I I ent position in the rubber world sends us H I the following memorandum: I Local Companies ard Export I 1>utt (F. M. 8.) I The F. M. S. Customs announce that for I I the period 14*h to489 words
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Article173 1917-09-13 5 Pbvabo Womun Worxb&s. Amount previously acknowledged $5,737.03 Mrs. Cleaver 15 00 Mrs. Pritchard 1000 Mrs. C D. Hogan 10.00 M's. A. R. I. Dewar 5.00 R A. 2 00 Mrs. Hyms 100 Mrs. Sinclair 1.00 Mrs. Heaps (Kedab) 500 Mrs. Gorman 5 00 Mrs. F. Dennys173 words
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Article176 1917-09-13 5 Pbvaho’s Tram. The Penang eleven to play against Perak on Saturday at Ipoh has been finally selected. It is a fine, strong team and the selection reflects the greatest credit on Mr. E. H. Syer, the Captain. Some of the team will travel to Ipoh on Fridav afternoon176 words
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Article355 1917-09-13 5 -1 Yistmdat’s Fdtb Match, *1 .A l»rge crowd of interested spectators I witnessed a really good game of fcotball on the Esplanade yesterday evening whet. I The Probable*" met The Re*t” and won r I a well contested game by four goals to one. 1 1 They would355 words
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Article299 1917-09-13 5 (From Our Own Correspondent) At the Bukit Mertajam District Court, I before Mr. G, A. Hereford, on Wednesday, a Malay rubber tapper, named Ismail bin Itam, was brought up and sentenced to 9 months’ rigorous imprieonment for the theft of 60 lbs, of rubber, valued at $3O,299 words
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Article165 1917-09-13 5 The following are the alterations in Messrs. A. A Anthony A Co’s., share list to-day:— Aver Molek Rubber Co. $2 65 buyers and $2 75 sellers Bilgowoie Rubber Estate $6 buyers and 16.30 sellers Bukit Timib Rubber Estates $l4 sellers Haytor Rubber Estates $lO 50 sellers; Jimah Rubber Estates165 words
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Article97 1917-09-13 5 The undermentioned prices were realised for rubber sold by Messrs. Allen Dennys and Co. at their 315th Auction Sale to-day i Smoked Diamond Sheet No. 1 >M $ll9 to $l2l per picul Smoked Diamond Sheet No. 2 106 117 do Unsmokrd Sheet No. 1 109 do Unsmoked97 words
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Advertisement580 1917-09-13 5 I mr Bu\in ss MllllVi MPIRE Thomas Shafto. PATHE PKE8ENT8 THE GREAT DETECTIVE SERIAL the irom claw Featuring PEARL WHITE Creighton Hale, and Sheldon Lewis in “Til *Vftn*ea»f© ofLfgar” 1st Episode and "The House of Unhappiness" 2nd Episode. PRODUCED BY THE FEATURE FILM CORP. N.B.—This picture will be shown for580 words
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Advertisement263 1917-09-13 5 H n 0 B <?- 6 AND < r M 0>cD FRONTIER 4 MIXTURE. I igc=ac=3Bc=—1C XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX)0<XXXXXXXXXX ELECTRIC POLYSCOPE TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT!! PROGRAM. First show 8 p.m. STINCAREE—SERIAL 1. To The Vile Dust Episode 8 Part 5 3. The Black Hole of Glenranald „4 ,7 4 8 2nd show 9.15 p.m.263 words
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Article, Illustration95 1917-09-13 6 MBaM d»3j (exoept Sundays and public t hobday») Aim CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. Re. 59, Batch Street, Penang. Pm on* DaOj Leaal IS4 aaa per M»nwTit Ostistatk»... Postage Extra. Rail Edition (Pool Free) 917.50 OABLB ADD*«SS ECHO—PEN ANG Telephone Nos. (Echo) 586 Printing Department 343 N.B. —All business95 words
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Article1276 1917-09-13 6 As was pointed out by Reuter's correspondent at the British Headquarters wa hear little now of the word “attri tion” with which military writers made i great play at the beginning of the i when the Allies were numerically inferior and when “nibbling at them” was the1,276 words
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Article551 1917-09-13 6 Mr. A. J. van der Zee, who went to Medan on business, returned to-day. Mr. J, Pottie, of the F.M.S, Railways, Kuala Lumpur, has left for home on long leave, The Hon. Mr. F. S. James, Colonial Secretary, will arrive here to-morrow in connection with Our Day.”551 words
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Article131 1917-09-13 6 Penang Merchants and Attorney-General. At a Meeting of the Committee of the Penang Chamber of Commerce held on Tuesday, the 11th instant, the AttorneyGeneral’s speech introducing the Military Service Ordinance, 1917, was considered and the following resolution was passed It is resolved that the Committee of this131 words
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Article25 1917-09-13 6 C Front Owr Own Correspondent, London, September 11, The prices in the London Rubber Markei to-day were: Pale Crepe 2/\o\ Diamond Smoked 2/8J25 words
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Article67 1917-09-13 6 Latest Quotations. .Jr* (unrefio,,d > i 8 uotf>d here t( >*<lay at 1111.75, business done, in Singapore, (refined) at $112.00, buyers no sellers, and ,Po D<l Tuesday, the birthday of H H. the Snltan or Selangor, x.c m 0.. was observed as a public holiday in Selangor. A friendly67 words
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Article998 1917-09-13 6 Captain Basil Hood. Captain Basil Hood, the »nnnnn« t whose death we found tucked awaT.n two-line paragraph in an ob-cure Jrnlr f an Indian contemporary, was, l.ke bi B Rre4t °f namesake, a neat punster t l *u- < 9r Aboc.e,.Ha SB a 9 Lg 'l, There’s many998 words
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Advertisement346 1917-09-13 6 HOT WATER BOTTLES ASTOUNDING VALUE. We do not say you cannot get better value. We say you cannot get anything: approaching: the value in Penang', Made In Red Chocolate Rubber $3.50 each. A hot water bottle should be kept in every house as their value is only appreciated in an346 words
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Advertisement28 1917-09-13 6 nnnnnnnnnnnnannnDDnnnnnnnnnnnn I OUR DAY 1917. i n □□□□□a ananciDDDaann aaauna f Mrs. EBDEN’S CONCERT 3 Friday. September 21st BOOK YOUR SEAT NOW AT ROBINSON PIANO Co. □□□□□□□□□□□naaaaaaaaaaaoaannn □□aanDnaaaDDDDDDaoa28 words
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Article399 1917-09-13 7 T HE WEEK’S SINKINGS. [Reuter’s Telegrams.] ADMIRALTY report. Marked Deereas*. London, Sept. 12. Tbe Admiralty reports that the arrivals 4t British ports during tbe week were 2,744 |C d the sailings 2 868 Total 5,612 Twelve vessels over 1,600 tons were sunk ar d six under that tonnage, making a399 words
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Article55 1917-09-13 7 {From Our Oivn Correspondent Singapore, September 13. At the meeting of the Sungei Btg&n Rubber Company Chairman referred to the grossly unfair manner in which the company had been handicapped since the time of its inception. He said that they had weathered all troubles and they now55 words
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Article61 1917-09-13 7 Commission of Itquiry. From, Our Own Correspondent Singapore, September 13. H. E the Governor, Sir Arthur Young, has appointed a commission to enquire into the cause of the present shortage of subsidiary silver in active circulation and the steps that should be taken to remedy it. The Commission61 words
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Article60 1917-09-13 7 A Successful Year. (From Our Own Correspondent.') Singapore, September 12. Ihe annual report of the United Engineers shows a profit on the year's workiug of $1,543 595. The directors recommend a dividend of 7 per cent, on the Preference Shares and 12£ per cent on the Ordinary shares60 words
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Article549 1917-09-13 7 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Artillery Struggle. London, Sept. 12, 4 10 p.m. A French communique states i The artillery struggle continued, It was most lively on the sectors of Driegrachten and Bixsohoote* We successfully carried out two raids to the north-east of Auberive and east of the St. Hilaire—St. Soupplet549 words
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Article38 1917-09-13 7 (From Cher Chon Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 12. At the Rubber Exhibition the following prizes were awarded s Crept .-Ist. F.M S. Rubber Ooy. 2nd Sarendah Rubber Estate, gfoet —lst. Kampong Kuantan. 2nd: Tanjong Malim.38 words
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Article654 1917-09-13 7 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] FOREIGN OFFICE STATEMENT. U, S. A. Comment», Washington, Sept. 12. Diplomatists and American officials are astounded at the view of the Stockholm Foreign Offioe that there was no impropriety in permitting the German representative at Buenos Aires to communicate with Berlin through Swedish diplomatic channels,654 words
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Article1725 1917-09-13 7 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] SALLYING BOUND THE PEEMIEB. M- KERENSKY'S STATEMENT. Attitnde of Svperior Offlesrs. Moscow, September 12, M. Kerensky has issued the following statement:— Superior officers everywhere are acting in agreement with the Government and I committees at the front. General Denikin I and the Headquarters Staff1,725 words
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Article92 1917-09-13 7 The following artioles will be found ou our outside pages Page. B.—“ Tommy and the Aeroplane. Perak Water Rights. Enemy Ships in China. 4. —The Daughter Question. 5. -The Robber Dnty. Queen Mary’s Needlework Guild. Inter-Btste Football. A ssociation Football. Bukit Mertajam Oases. Penang Rubber Auotion. Shares. 8. —Sir92 words
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Article751 1917-09-13 8 Three years ago Sir Arthur Currie was a i real estate broker in Victoria, B. C. To-d*y —ati 1 in tbe early forties —he succeeds to the command (f a B it ish Army corps. 11 Everyone who knows his work is agreed 11 tbat be has751 words
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Article139 1917-09-13 8 The Chinese lady doctor, Tamei Kin, head cf the Women's Medical School and HosD'tal near Piking, after graduating in the West, has just returned to the East to investigate there the methods of soya bean culsivation ard preparation* Though rice has the reputation, the soya bean is139 words
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Article137 1917-09-13 8 Selangor P olic e Case. Court of Appu*l, at Ipoh consistof Mr. JusMos E*rnshaiv, Mr. Justice Edmonds, and Mr. Justice Farrer-Manbv. heard on Wednesday morning on behalf of the appeal by the three polioe clerks, T E. de Silva, Teen Kon Fab. and omnadurai, who were oonvicted in Kuala Lumpur,137 words
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Article742 1917-09-13 8 Thu Second Reading Debate, Tbe Hongkong Legislative Oounoil on Aug. 31 carried though its remaining stages tbe compulsory military service bill, the obj-ct of whicn is to make provision with respect to military service and to provide for the establishment, maintenance and control of a local defence742 words
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Article203 1917-09-13 8 I, Thcbsdat, Sbptmwww 13. d Municipal Commission. Fbidat. Snmvuwa 14 q Town Band, Esplanade The Dispensary (Penang) Ltd- A.G.M., g 3. Weld Quay, 2.30 p.m. Saturday, Srptmcbm 15. Inter-state Football—Penang vs Perak a Ipob. 9 Sunday, Sirikbib 16. j 15th after Trinity. Monday, SnrTBMnnn 17, i Town203 words
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Article1543 1917-09-13 8 It is evident, from a semi official inter view accorded tbe representative of i Japanese news agpncy ty Chang Chib Tan Chief Secretary of tbe Tuan Cabinet, tbsi the CbintS9 Govarnment does not expect tbi pretent discontent in the South to develoi into open rebellion, says1,543 words
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Article301 1917-09-13 8 1 1 ADMieeroir or M*. J. Rioby. i I Hon, Mr. A., N. Kenfon moved on Tuesday afternoon in the Judicial Commi*. sioner’s Court. Ipob, before Mr. Justice J. R. Innes, Acting Chief Judicial Commissioner, F.M8,, the admission of Mr. James Rigby, at present Registrar of. Vehicles, to301 words
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Article45 1917-09-13 8 The following p -ogramme of urasio will be played at the Espianadst* morrow evening from 6 pm, to 7 p.m. j— 8 1 Overtax» 1M1 Gwiu Dm, 8 Ssleotlon iC'tta Kfflt 4 W«lt. The'cboodat» Retf rd Soldier Sirewas 5 March Dilitrate Holmee45 words
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Article385 1917-09-13 8 For the past eighteen moothe I h.»o i r in correspondence with the Oermao wo,k,„, bu, J 0 T",\ 01 secret or underhand means ThI J muMcations I have addreeiad 7. n*' m«ny have been duly Qer > authorised. I have tilled h. d &Dd twn of the385 words
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Advertisement397 1917-09-13 8 Cur %)ay 1917. GRAND YU8ICAL EVENING ORGANISED BY MVI. EBDEN ON FBI DAY. SEPTEMBER 2U l AT ».15 P H. ▲T THI TOWN HALL TICKET5 NOW ON SALE AT ROBINSON PIANO CO., Referred seats $5 and $3 Unreserved seat* $2DON’T MISS IT. WANTED. OIL ENGINE 22-27 H.P. New or seoood397 words
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Advertisement57 1917-09-13 8 I A machine weakened in one part toon breaks down altogether. That istheca<e with sufferers from indigestion, a most disheartening complaint. If you are troubled, turn immeiiately to WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CORE, A course of this medicine will plana the body machine in perfect running order. Sold at Dispensaries and57 words
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Advertisement10 1917-09-13 8 For Chronic Cheat Compkiat*, Wooda* Greet Peppermint Care li. #d.10 words
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Advertisement384 1917-09-13 8 r '°<==DOCZ^DO y NOTICE OF REMOVAL. CHOO CHUAN KEOK «Co. OENEEAL SHIP CHANDLERS o Removed to 33, Bishop Street, (next door to Travellers' Hotel.) 6<=>OC=Z=30C=DC=ZDOCZ=DOC=D^ notice. A LIST OF APPLICATIONS for public bouee licences for the year 1917 to be considered at the meeting of the Board of n81Dg Ju8ti384 words
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Article1234 1917-09-13 9 In the Wake of the War: Parliament or Imperial Government By Harold Hodge. ('John Lane, 5s. net). Amid the welter of discussion evokrd bv the war one proposition seems to command general assent: nothing is hencefoiward to bj taken for granted. Tnere is nothing on1,234 words
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Advertisement446 1917-09-13 9 f—- the SWIFT CYCLE Co., Ltd., COVENTRY ENGLAND. i JUST ARRIVED i 9 a a a i GROSS HERMANOS. MALAGA, SPAINi~ 'iV-' T7 wr f t<‘'. x M It a SWIFT THE i I r^WlfT iWffQ-U y W Y'i ,4 i Ictot ill tMTUY 6 r ’—V rrp tto. 1446 words
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Advertisement733 1917-09-13 9 FOR SALE. attractive investment for small capital) A RUBBER E 3 I ATE nituate about 3/4 of a in.!<r from Tapah Hoad (P*r ak) .ilw*y Station —frofctagrg on Riilway Lne, «in Road to T*pab and River. Acreage approxima'e'y 163—ibout 45 acres of 10 to 12 yetra ol i rubb<r— .bout733 words
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Article2088 1917-09-13 10 j When nme mit tbs ago wa urged on the G vernment of tbi* C >lony the desirability of some form of class fio ition and compulsion f>r Imperial service we were petf-ctlv assured in our own minds that such a measur» wag t e oaly satisfactory2,088 words
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Advertisement463 1917-09-13 10 Ca > l c >i£>\ Let ‘Wincarnis’ give you New Sirengtfi, new Blood, nr/ Nerve Force new Vitality To those who are Weak, or Anaemic, or ‘Nervy,’ or Run-down, ‘Wincarnis’ offers the greatest of all gifts—the gift of new health and new life. New health and new life Think what463 words
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Advertisement40 1917-09-13 10 A Master Remedy. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is maater orer cramp colic, dysentpry, and all in estinal pains. One dose ral’eves, a second dose is rarely neoessary to effect a cure. For sale by all dispensaries and dealers,40 words
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Advertisement550 1917-09-13 10 Be Fat- Not Funny i W V Fut on Firm, Healthy Flesh Where Every Ounce Will Count If women and men only knew the pity, the gibes and the ridinnl* 6orawny chests and scarecrow figures make,' they would MrUinl/do aomethfn j f heir bones, and round out their figures. metkm550 words
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Article1532 1917-09-13 11 It pleases people to think that they are more engaged with what is sensible than with what is merely nonsense, but it is really quite amazing when we realise to what an extent they have busied themselves with the latter. This is not sarcasm, it is1,532 words
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Advertisement424 1917-09-13 11 FRESH I STOCKS i AGENTS s e I B 0 I I I jR. T. REID Co., Penang.{ BRINKMANN Co., Singapore. THE WATERHOUSE Co., Ltd. (iNCORPiKATBD IH'TiIB C.8 A i Muar, Malacca and Kuala Lumpur. i. B THE BODEGA, PENANG. The above Bar 8 Restaurant Having been Purchased bj Thomas424 words
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Advertisement394 1917-09-13 11 Haunts 1 by Pain I '6 Are jour waking end sleeping hour» haunted by the awful dread or the worse reality of bodily pain Headache, backache, toothache, neuralgia sciatica, rheumatism, sore throat, end other external aches and p*ins are quickly soothed and cured by LITTLE S ORIENTAL BALK Simply rub394 words
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Advertisement1370 1917-09-13 12 p. British India Mail and &PCAR (Companies Incoepokatid in England.) and Passenger Service*. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS. (nrSBE CONTRACT WITH HIS MAJKBTT’s GOVERHMBNT) The Company's MAIL SERVICES EAST OF BOMBAY are at present suspended Passengers for Europe are booked via Bombay as opportunity offers and as far as ■eeomodation is1,370 words
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