Straits Echo, 29 September 1917

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 15. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, SATURDAY, 29th SEPTEMBER, 1917. Single Copy, lO cents. No. 229.
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    • 1170 1 mm v The Georgetown NORTHAM ROAD AND FARQUHAR STREET. IAmritaat Bangkok atari* Bombay Calcutta Canton CARS FOR HIRE V. I Colombo Telegraphic address: Hokintteik ’Phone No. 694 IS ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE. A fUet of Brand mw CLra f r hire day ami eight at modeiota charges. Motor Car Importers
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  • 2132 3 The fourth year of 4be<war opens without aoy more aigoa than its predecessors gave of an approaching military decision, bat with a very perceptible weakening of the will to war both among the Germans and their enemies. A consciousness of this seems to underlie moat public comments
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    • 605 3 by order of the custodian of enemy property pursuant to an order of his excellency the governor in council In the matter of the Trading with the Enemy Ordinances 1914 to 1916 and of the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Ordinances 1914 to 1917. IMPORTANT AUCTION SALE l Of A V
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    • 39 3 A. Matter Remedy. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is master over cramp colio, dysentery, and all in'estinal pains. One dose relieve?, a second dose is rarely neoassary to effect a core. For sale by all dispensaries and dealers,
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    • 364 3 'Phlil-nana M 'Rcgi A Bouquet of India’s Choicest Flowers, An entrancingly fragrant *and pov/crriil scent, yet not cloying, Phul Nana blends all the choicest scents of an Indian Garden into an unique perfume. Try it and enjoy this luxury in sweet smells. Phul-Niina can also be obtained in conjunction with
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  • 2352 4 Labour Members tad Stockholm Conference. CFrom Our Own Correspondent London, August 17. Wise as is the decision of the Government with regard to the Stookholm Conference—that skilfully engineered plot to help Germany out of her world wide difficulties—it is a great pity that the Government did
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    • 264 4 Cl QBLD*S GREATEST DUST 6ATHERER *v 225 p r /o-m O-CEDAR MOP O-CEDAR MOP CLEANS AS IT POLISHES. O-CEOAR MOf. Mads with a strong enawefled steel fleet re. Iadsstruotible Clean* and polisbss at the wet time, putting a high lustre on all Tarnished surfaces There is nothing to equal the
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    • 483 4 WANTED. A Clerk for an office near Ipoh knowing well to apeak, read and write Engliik and Siamese (Bangkok) with al* 0 a fair knowledge of t*pe writing in English. 8alarr per menoum $75/-; quartern and light free' Applj atating previous experience to Box No. 383 598. C/e 8trait> Echo.
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  • 1473 5  -  [By Tom Wright Andrew Lane is reported to have cherished the conviction that this world of ours always was, and always will be, a horrid scramble, with art as the only consolation of the wise. Art for life’s sake was his phrase. This view involved some contempt for meliorists,
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  • 299 5 Penalties fob Hoarding and Exporting. A Government Gazette Extraordinary issued on Wednesday contains Subsidiary Current Coin Regulations, 1917.” They provide that Except under the authority of the Colonial S-cretary no person Bball after this date acquire or, having acquired before this date, shad after this date keep in
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  • 54 5 Tbe following subscriptions have been received towards the Province Wellesley Our Day Fond j— Mr. D CJ. MacDougall 1100.00 Mr. F.C. Ebbels 250 00 Mr. G. A. Hfrsford 300 Police H Division 'U 00 Stsff of P.W.D. Bukit MerUjam 20 12 Staff of S.D.O. Bukit
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    • 305 5 OS Q: PENANG’S., RENDEZVOUS Penang Cinema The Best Show wtth the Best Orchestra TO BE SCREENED AT 9 30 PM. ‘-THE MEXICAN RAIDERS' that makes you 3 Something Tight Reels Reels Three An, enthralling film protraying fighting- in Mexico A film of the Century, that was proclaimed the finest ever
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    • 640 5 o > AND < 0 N/ ONTIERe S^ned FRON "T U (L MIXTURE Tbe Perak River Valley Rubber COMPANY, LIMITED. Declaration of Interim Dividend and Notice of Closing Transfer Books. "VTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Lx Third interim Dividend of 5 per cent free of War Tax has been
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  • 98 6 FritfaM daily (except Sundays and publio V hoMayi) at m CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. r*. 59, Beech Street, Penang. Faxon 1 Daily Leert W 4 per annum. artetetin Postage Extra. Mnii Edition (Port Free) «17.50 OABIiI ADDBRSS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo) 586 Printing Department 343 N. S.—All business
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  • 1224 6 With a view to the establishment of a national system of education avail able for all persons capable of profiting thereby, Mr. Fisher, the Minister of Education, recently introduced a Bill into the House of Commons, We do n't seem to remember that at the time Reuter
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  • 923 6 Captain D. J. Matthews is now acting as Superintendent of the Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd. Mr. A. W. Freeman of Ipoh has left for Australia for a short holiday, and hopes to return shortly with Mrs. Freeman and their little son. The B. N. B, Court of
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  • 930 6 Nelson's Birthday, To-day is the anniversary of Nelson’s birth, September 29, 1758. Nelson for ever—any time. Am I his to command in prose or rhymel Give me of Nelson only a touch, And I save it, be it little or much. —Baowwnre. Malay Sub-Inspectors. Our Ipoh contemporary understands
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    • 268 6 i GILLETTE troppers A KEEN EDGE IN A FEW SECONDS. ORDER AT ONCE. These are mad© from beat quality selected FTorse H de. The blade is placed in a Metal Clamp and the hnnde worked up and down a few times. The blade is then reversed and the operation repeated.
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    • 19 6 OUR DAY, 1917. GRAND DINNER, DANCE AND FANCY FAIR. RUNNYMEDE HOTEL Saturday, October 27th NETT PROFITS TO THE FUND.
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  • 2193 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] SIR DOUGLAS HAIG’S REPORT. Aerial Activity. London, Sept 27, 11.25 p m, Sir Douglas Haig reports Despite mistiness and a strong west wiod our aeroplanes all day long fired their ioachine«guoi at tbe enemy fighting line and to tbe rear of it. Thirty thousand rounds were
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  • 26 7 (From Our Otm Correspondent London, September 27, The prices in the London Rubber Market to-day were: Pale Crepe A/91 Diamond Smoked see 2/7J
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  • 56 7 Latest Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day at $112.25, business done, in Singapore (refined) at $112.75, buyers no sellers. Messrs, Boustead A Co. inform us that the following were the quotations for rubber on spot in London on the 27th inst. received yesterday i Plantation let
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  • 647 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] EXPERT REVIEW. Geeerel Meurice'e Statemeet. London, September 27. General Maurice, of the General Staff, in a statement to Reuter reviewing the 1 military situation, said that the pause in the < western operations which was just broken was due to the rain and mud of
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  • 483 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] THE DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE. Opening Seeaei. Petrograd, September 28. The All-Russia Damocratic Conference I has opened. There were present 1,200 delegates and all the Ministers of the Provisional Government headed by M. Kerensky, besides several diplomats as spectators. M. Tobeidze, at the inauguration, said the reason of the
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  • 101 7 The following articles will be found or our outside pages Page. 3. The Fourth Year. 4. —War News and Gossip. 5. —Barbie. Subsidiary Coin. Province Wellealey Our Day Fund. 8. —Malaya Matters. Words not D-eds. Status of Women in China. Rubber Shot at Malacca. Oar D«y 1917. British Navy
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  • 869 7 Tenth Annual Meeting. The teDtb annual ke erai m* e tog of the shareholders < f to** Rihm Hydraulic Tin, Limited, was h id at the registered (ffioe of the Company, D >wniDg Street, at ro m to-day. Thee were present the Hon Mr. J. Mitchell,
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  • 77 7 (From Our Own, Correspondent Singapore, Bept. 29. H. E, the Governor yesterday nr veiled a tablet in V o'oria Memorial Hail in memory of all those who lo>t their lives daring tin mutiny in February 1915. Mr. F. J. Hallifax, President of the Municipal Commissioners, on behalf of
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  • 16 7 Obituary. j Paris, Sept. 28. 1 The death is announoed of the great! painter Hilaire Degas.
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  • 1038 8 8.T. Reply to Mr. Darbishire. Mr. Darbishire did not speak on Tuesday as Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and we consider bis speech simply as an expression of personal opinion. He is as much entitled as any man to speak bis mind freely. Nevertheless we much
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  • 195 8 [To thu Editor of thr Strait» Echo Dear Sir, Would you kindly let as many as possible of your readers know—especially autograph collectors—that a draft telegram written aud signed by the late Lord Kitchener is for sale on behalf of the Penang Bed Cross Fund Offers will
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  • 435 8 We (T.O M) regret to record the death, which occurred in Dutch Borneo, some miles away from Pontianak, on Tuesday last, of Mr, T. Rmsome Toby, well known in Perak mining circles. Toe news will come as a shock to his many friends, for when Mr
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  • 66 8 Despite the non-arrival of the films from Singapore advertised by this show for last night the programme presented was an exceptionally good one, including The Girl and the Tiger.’’ "The Mexican Raiders” is another feature that is full of exciting cenes of .combats between Cowboys and Mexicans. The
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  • 209 8 On Sunday, at Dato Kramat Gardens, Crescent meet Muthibol Abzin in the League. Our Taiping correspondent writes Before Mr. Pryde in the Taiping Court on Monday three Chinese named CMg Guao, Oog Kai and Ong Cheat) were convicted for having in their possession for sale or purposes
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  • 691 8 Dr. Ernest Faber deals with the theory and practise of the position of women in China, for the past three thousand years, as d-pictodin the ancient Chinese Classics and in Chinese Criminal Law, a 9 well as in the popular religious literature of tha Chinese.
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  • 213 8 At about 11 p.m. on Thursday, a gang of armed Chinese broke into the bouse of a well known planter named Chiah Bian Wau at the fourth mile on the Pringgit-Batu Bsrendaca Road. They proceeded to< ransack a room occupied by au old woman, some eighty
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  • 45 8 RED CROSS FUND. Scottish Branch. Amount previously acknowledged $2,960 R. B. Kennedy 50 A. Sharp 150 John Maodonald 50 R- D. Pitceatbly 50 J»m*?s A. Cunnison 50 A. B Robertson 50 A. D, Duncan 59 Malay Peninsula Agricultural Association £OO Total $3,910
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  • 844 8 Eveiy member cf the community, whatever be his race or position in society, is interested in the question of the local currency. At the present moment this interest is more than usually acute owing to the fact that the small change has in a great measure been withdrawn
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  • 100 8 The following’ a'Ve the “Orders of the Day for the nce°ti»g on Monday next: 1. Supply Bill (Bill "For making provision for the Public Service for the year 1918.”) let reading. 2. Libel (Amendment) Bill (Bill “To amend the Libel Ordinance, 1915.”) 3rd reading. 3. Insurance Companies Bill
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  • 622 8 Against the clamour for an offensive policy,” which has been urged in some quarters, Mr, Archibald Hurd protests He reminds us that since Nelson's day many changes have occurred in favour of the fleet winch modestly declines a general action. Steam,.armour for forts as well
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  • 121 8 Saturday, September 29. Michaelmas Day. Rahman Hydraulic Tin Co., Ltd., A G.M., Messrs. Adamson Qiifillan A Co., Ltd», noon, Sunday, September 30. 17th after Trinity. M. P A. A., Second Quarterly General Meeting, Krian Club, Parit Buniar, 11 a.m. Monday, Oqtobbr 1. Town Band. Esplanade. Jewish Holiday
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  • 60 8 The following.programme of music will be played at the Golf Club thia evening from 5.45 p m. to 7.15 p.m.4 1 Selection Madame Sherry Felix 2 Two Step My Little Black Sweetheart Gilbert 8 Selection A Runaway Girl Kappey 4 Waltz Blue Danube Strauss 5 I’ll Sing
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  • 139 8 RED CROSS FUKD. List of Subscriptions. Amount previously acknowledged 180,286 53 Nie Joo Co. 10.00 A. C Hardouin 100.00 Beh Loh People 9000 Tan Sin Cheng 300 (XI Amount collected by Assistant Protector of Chinese 44.00 Kboo Ewe Tong 200 00 K. Pachee 200 00 C.
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  • 244 8 ST. GEORGE 'S CHURCH, PENANG. Skptbmbub 30 8-00 a.rn. Matins 8-30 a.m. Holy Communion 10-30 a.m. Matins (Chinese) 5- p.m. Sunday School 6- p.m. Evensong Hymn 299 Psalms CXLVII} CXLVIIIf Marsh CXLIX j CL Hum* phreys 289 Magnificat 1 Maunder Nunc Dimittis in C Hymns 164, 423 and 30 During
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  • 78 8 The following is the health statement of ths Penang Municipality «for the wssk ended September 22,1917 f Male 45) Total Deaths < V 64 (.Female 19 Death rate 31.48 pee mille per annum compared with 30.99 in the preceding jreek and with 29.82 in the corresponding ween of
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  • 98 8 The following are the alterations in Messrs. A. A. Anthony A Cq/s, share lisfc to*day Ayer Molek Rubber Co. $2.80 buyers and $3 sellers; Bukit Katil Rubber Estates $1 sellers; Kuala Sidim Rubber Co, $45 buyers and $47 sellers; Mergui Rubber Estates $5 90k sellers;. Pajam $2O buyers and
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    • 30 8 Keep It Handy. Immediate relief is necessary in attacks of diarrhoea. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea J&emedy shonld always be on hand. For sale by all. 1 dispensaries and dealers.
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    • 61 8 Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy should be packed in your hand luggage when going on a journey. Change of water, diet, and temperature all tend or produce bowel trouble, and this medicine cannot be secured on board ttfe (rain or ateamabip. It may save much suffering and inconvenience if
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    • 12 8 For Children’s Hacking Cough at Night»-» Wood' Great Peppermint Cure la, 6d.
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  • 2063 9 KRUPPS' AGITATION FOR RUTHLESS "U” WARFARE. “AMERICA HAD BETTER LOOK OUT ’’-KAISER. Tibpitz Intbisub fob thb Chakcbllobship. We (five below further detail! of Mr. J.W. Gerard’s memoirs:— About March 1, 1916, it was reported that a grand council of war was held at Chari▼ille and that in
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    • 255 9 s FRESH STOCKS I a a a I c AGENTS R. T. REID Co., Penang.| a BRINKMANN Co., Singapore, g THE WATERHOUSE Co., Ltd. (incorporated in THE U S A s Muar, Malacca and Kuala Lumpur* 8 B WHALLEY’S SANITARY FLUID COMPANY. LONDON, ENGLAND. Suppliers to His Majesty's Households, and
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    • 560 9 Dysentery and Fever Dr. Cassell's Tablets Make You Strong and Able to Resist Disease. When yon ere strong with the full strength of vigorous manhood yon have no need to fear the diseases that attack weak people. Dr. Cassell’» Tablets give you that strength. They fill you with life and
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    • 327 9 Penang Sales Room TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION Valuable House-hold Furniture Compbisino: Single and Double Iron Bedsteads Marble top W«sh Stands, Dressing Tables, Mirror front Wardrobe, Almirah*, Chairs, Carpet, Book Case, Hall Stand, Shanghai Yeses, Pictures, Rattan Furniture, Piano by F, L. Neumann, Du-t Piano Stool, Eleotrio Standard Lamp.
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  • 1383 10 "That is quite right now, Madam,” said a photographer to a lady sitter, "quite right as to attitude, Madam, but do not let the mind recede from the faoe." The exhort*, tion oalla up many pictures. Some beautiful faces are eoohantiog to look at even when the
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  • 580 10 Mr. Frederick Harrison brings bis t enchant pen to bear, and states that, as we enter tbe fourth year of war, we find the Hun, now satiated with bio id atd booty, and at last trembling in sight of tberuia that awaits him, masquerading as a peace loving
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    • 58 10 Supplied by all Chemists. Fbyajeiane prescribe Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrboe* Remedy became it relieve* cramp* in the stomach and intestinal pains quicker than any preparation they can compound. It oau be bought from any chemist •hop. A bottle will keep for year., and no home i. oomplete without it.
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    • 72 10 The «courge of a trop’cal country is dys* entery, but every trouble has its antidote, and for dysentery the medicine is WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CURE It is a medicine that will provide quick life and cure. Those who have to get away into the out portions of this country should
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    • 318 10 ar is h SUPERIOR TO ALL.” <p<r Pork and Beans Ox Tongues Lunch Tongues Breakfast Tongues Boneless Chicken Tomato Catchup Large Asparagus Vienna Sausages Bacon in Glass Roast Beef Cottrge Beef Libby's Soups in Minced Collops Corned Beef Queen Olives Stuffed Olives Ham Loaf, Pork Loaf Beef Loaf, Veal Loaf
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  • 1724 11 Open B ats, [ln the following narrative, in order to conform to the exigencies of war, it has been necessary to omit the names of persons and to give no more than a general indication of localities,] The master was sitfiog in the saloon, peacefully
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    • 449 11 Trial orders cordially solicited for the following:— Beltings (Best camel hair) ox Strapping (Cary's and Acme) at bed Wire 4 lbs. CHANGKOLS (BEST ENGLISH MAKE) SODIUM BISULPHITE (ENGLISH) Shanghai Jar3 Rubber Cups Japanese Acetic Acid Rubber Cups Wire Nails BEAN CAKES (MANURE FOR RUBBER) AND ALL ESTATE SUPPLIES AND REQUISITES.
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    • 60 11 ESTABLISHED 1874. THE ORIENTAL Government Security Life, Assurance Company, Ltd. I*c»rp*rat«4 it laiia. BBANCH OFFICE, SINGAPORE J. B. Macpebbson. Secretary S.S, and F.M.B Funds exceed $30,500,000.00 Claims Paid $26,000,000.00 LOW FATES LIBERAL CONDITIONS Apply for Prospectus etc, to Lim Eu Toh, Merchant, 158, Beach or 88, Beach Street Penang Thi
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    • 600 11 To Be Shot at Sunrise woo'd set-m a welcome relief to many who suffer tte red hot pain thrusts of neuralgia, These are the hopeless torture-wracked beings who live in the shadow of constant dread of the stabbing, twitting, unbearable sodden pains and spasm of neuralgia. LITTLE S ORIENTAL BALM
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    • 1442 12 P. 0.—British India AND JLPCAR LINE (CoMPAff 1*8 lffCOKPOBATUU IN En«LA»I>.) Mail and Paaaentfer Service*. KONIHKLIJKE PAKETYAART MAATSCHAPPiJ (ROYAL PACKET S. N. COMPANY.) (I NCOEPORATUD Iff HOLLAND) Fob Ik Tiff did to Sail. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS. (UYSUB OONTEAOT WITH HIS MAJESTT’s OOTUKNMUNT) Ths Company’s MAIL SERVICES EAST OF BOMBAY
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