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Title Section20 1927-09-14 1 The Straits Echo Weekly Edition. ml PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY 40 GTS. MU 25 PENANG, SEPTEMBER 14, 1927 NO. 3620 words
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Advertisement245 1927-09-14 1 I 't CO NT EN T S -Js b"-.« Leading Articles Miscellaneous (Continued) A jf Mind that Atom ...729 i Big Chandu Haul ...742 M Perils of Greasy Roads ...729 Public Lectures by Dr. Stanley I Filins and Education ...733 Jones ...742 fir No More Gold Watches ...738 Guthrie’s ...743245 words
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Advertisement109 1927-09-14 2 J LIPTON’S I t is a unique combination of strength and delicacy. You I will find the second cup of gF Lipton’s as good as the first free from bitterness and full of flavour. i Lipton’s Tea I moreover, is more economical as, S Weight for Weight, it gives more109 words
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Article355 1927-09-14 729 With all its imperfections this globe of ours manages to sustain in tolerable comfort a very large number of people. True, although nature is generous, she demands a certain amount of effort in the shape of hard work before she. is prepared to supply man with all355 words
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Article584 1927-09-14 729 PE RILS OF GREASY ROADS /'ratifying f n hear the h ,v#- l# )f i r l!r *nd others and we hunt ji r 1 nr 0,1 m mv an ooeas'on road t M Ar ff;w who realise tn rhe full the dangers that these roads present especially after a584 words
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Article535 1927-09-14 729 A Noted Dry” M ayne Bidwell Wheeler wh< se death at Battle (Trek (Michigan, is announced this morning has directed the whole ot his life to temperance work which he commenced while he w \»t at college His energies seemed to run in on* direction only that ot535 words
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Advertisement28 1927-09-14 729 ®be Straits JEcbo PUBLISHED DAILY WEEKLY EDITION Containing the news of the week prior to departure of Mails for Europe. The Criterion Press, Limited, 59. Reach Street, Penang28 words
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Article2140 1927-09-14 730 RICHARD SIDNEY - A Little Light Reading—The Post Office—How Mails are Collected and Sorted—lmperial and Foreign MailsHow Our Letters Get Here. BY RICHARD SIDNEY 'Exclusive to the Straits Echo) It is fatal for one who tries tn review books to go away. When he returns his table is piled2,140 words
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Article490 1927-09-14 731 TO BE ESTABLISHED IN PENANG At the suggestion of Professor Li Chong Chien, of the South-eastern University of Nanking, a number of the leading Chinese of Penang have interested themselves with the project of the establishment of a normal school of Chinese painting. After travelling490 words
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Article120 1927-09-14 731 INTRODUCTION TO BE POSTPONED We understand, says the Malayan Daily Express, from a reliable source that it is very unlikely that the Chinese .Adoptions Bill will be introduced at the next meeting of the Feder d Council. Tn all probability, as has been urged bv us. it120 words
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Article245 1927-09-14 731 The title is unique in Malaya and is preserved for its merits concerning Islam. The present incumbent. of the post is a highlyplaced officer in the State, (Haji Wan Sleiman) and is a high authority in Islam throughout the State. He is a great Arabic Scholar245 words
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Article103 1927-09-14 731 MRS. GORSUCH WINS CHAMPIONSHIP «From Our Own Correspondent) Tpoh, 7 September The Perak Golf Club Ladies Champion hip was won bv Mrs Gorsuch who defeated Mr* Lee by I and 3 The Hall Cup for men w-«s won bv Mr E A Lee The tomb tom- competition103 words
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Article759 1927-09-14 732 AT HOME” AT NEW CLUB PREMISES One of the biggest reunions of past pupils of St. Xavier’s Institution gathered on Saturday afternoon at the new premises of the Old Xaverians’ Association, No. 1, Leith Street, on the occasion of the opening of the new club house when759 words
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Article339 1927-09-14 732 (Fr»m Our Own CerraipMdunt) Klang Having been informed that one Deo Narayan, who was a watchman on the Fletcher Trading Company at the Sultan street, Klang, was in possession of some bhang (gania) and was disposing of it. Inspector Shamsudin sent to the place a marked note339 words
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR.
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Article471 1927-09-14 732 OTHER PEOPLE’S VBs (To The Editor Of The Strmts Sir, I have read with interest the l ettw of the various correspondents about lot ol the office employees. While the clerk is grudging the sterx grapher his better pay and the steiX grapher is pointing to the471 words
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Article24 1927-09-14 733 r oKOI cA-CAMPBELL— On Saturday, 3rd September, 1027, Edward Laurie Fonceca of the Eastern Extension Telegraph o., to Ruby Florence Campbell of Penang24 words
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Article634 1927-09-14 733 A great deal has been written com eerning the evil influences of cinematograph films upon the minds and manners of cinema patrons that is gratifying to note that the possibilities of educational development opened out by the invention of the living pictures, as they use to call634 words
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Article295 1927-09-14 733 A SEQUEL IN COURT A rather unusual civil action was heart] in the District Court before Mr. J. S. W. Arthur yesterday afternoon. A Chinese named Oh Ah Kay was the defendant in a claim for $BO, being the assessed value of a cow, belonging295 words
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Article470 1927-09-14 733 A Human Magnet Royalty, politicians, film stars, famous and infamous people from time to lima nuke incursions into the realms of journalism but only arouse a ripple of interest among the apathetic public. Net when Bottomley was released from prison recently and again seized his pen the eagerness470 words
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Obituary78 1927-09-14 733 funeral notice The funeral of the late Mrs. Lee p fena Tong (nĕe Ong Tin Bee Neoh) beloved wife of Mr. Lee Peng Tong of Boustead Co., Ltd., who died on i as t Sunday night, will take place on Saturday, the 10th instant at 10.80 a m. when her78 words
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SPORTING NEWS
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Article1534 1927-09-14 734 POPAROO’S SURPRISE (Ffmu Oif Own Correa pondent) Singapore, 3 September The Singapore Turf Club Autumn race meeting opened in to-day in fine weather. There was a fair attendance The going waa good and good times were registered. Appended are the results: Race I. (About 6 furlongs) BESS1,534 words
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Article227 1927-09-14 735 SELANGOR’S RUN AWAY VICTORY (From Our Own Correspondent) K. Lumpur, 11 September Selangor practically walked away with the Malayan Athletic Championship piling up 471 points, the final positions being:— Selangor 47j; Penang 9; Military 9; Malacca 7|; Negri Sembilan 5; Perak 3; Singapore 2. The individual Championship227 words
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Article327 1927-09-14 735 THE REST DEFEAT THE NEWCOMERS A rugby football match was played on Saturday on the Esplanade between Newcomers to Penang and The Rest,” and resulted in a runaway victory for the old.-r residents b\ 23 points (4 goals and 1 try) to 7 points (one dropped goal and327 words
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Article127 1927-09-14 735 MALAYAN ATHLETICS (By Our Sporting Correspondent» '1 he Singapore 1 urf lub Autumn Meeting i- in lull swing and the most notable performance so far has been running ol that English horse, Vljigarxcn, who won the -.x funong sprint m something like record time, namdy, 1.14 1127 words
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Article1252 1927-09-14 736 INSPECTOR’S OBJECTION A case, the issue of which is of considerable importance to the Chinese of the Colony w’as heard before Mr. S. N. King in the Police Court yesterday afternoon, when Lee Cheng Ann was summoned for carrying on a theatrical performance beyond the1,252 words
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1084 1927-09-14 736 Before Mr. J. S. W. Arthur in the District Court on Saturday, the adjourned hearing was continued in which Tan Ah Bee, a married woman, was charged with being the keeper of a private brothel at No. 90, Lorong Selamat and with keeping three young1,084 words
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Article77 1927-09-14 737 PENANG DEFEATS THE NAVY Instead of a hockey match as had been previously arranged, a rugby football match was played yesterday on the Esplanade between a team irom H.M.S. Despatch and a Penang side. The sailors w'ere the first to cross the line hut after this Penang overcame77 words
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Article57 1927-09-14 737 No less than three motor accidents are reported to have occurred in Province Wellesley on Saturday evening in con sequence of which three persons have been admitted to the hospital at Butterworth suffering from injuries. All the accused concerned in the cases will be brought up in57 words
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Article114 1927-09-14 737 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, 6 September There are altogether twenty-four cases on th» calendar of the Singapore Assizes, including two murder trials, eleven robbery eases mostly armed, counterfeiting and cheating cases A small fire broke out at 159 Chulia Street vest» rd ay evening The Eire Brigade*114 words
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Article499 1927-09-14 737 INQUIRIES INTO LOCAL FATALITIES In the Coroner’s Court on Saturday befor» 1 Mr. S. N King, enquiries were heard into three fatalities which occurred during August. The first w’as on the death of an unknown Tamil who was found hanging from a tree in a certain plantation on499 words
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Article289 1927-09-14 738 From the proceedings at yesterday’s meeting of the Trades Union Congnis it would appear that there is very small likelihood of that assembly bestowing any more gold watches on their erstwhile friends, the Russians. Another insulting* telegram has been received this time from the Secretary of289 words
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Article92 1927-09-14 738 Lost Wednesday we published a letter to the Editor from Mr. M. B. Mydin on behalf of the inhabitants o f Sungei Pinnng Road in which a plea was made for the extens’on of electric lighting facilities to the area. We now learn however that the Municipality92 words
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Article124 1927-09-14 738 (From Our Own Correspondent) Bvkit Mf.rta.iam, 5 September Tt is announced that rabies have occured in Bukit Mertajam, and that a heavy fine will be imposed on person» who suffer their dogs to be out of doors without muzzles. Several persons have been prosecuted and fined124 words
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Article540 1927-09-14 738 Tn two instances recently the Chinese have fallen foul of the authorities in what is part and parcel of the observance of heir national customs. Tn one case a Chinese gentleman was fined a nominal sum for causing obstruction during the funeral of his grandmother and in540 words
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Article472 1927-09-14 738 Jockeys in Armour Horse-Racing in the picturesque,., of Siena, Italy, is an annual event (k. back to the Middle Ages. Unlike racing in this country, the went is more of a burlesque th» king else. The horses are led to u starting-post by pages. The joeywear close-fitting helmets472 words
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1644 1927-09-14 739 five YEARS’ R. I. POLICE UIPFRVISION AND CAT 5 O’ NINE TAILS T h e session of the Penang Assizes, Hch opened yesterday, terminated as anticipated, all three cases being dis nosed of before the tiffin adjournment. Onlvone case went into trial, the accused in1,644 words
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Article531 1927-09-14 740 The barbarous middle ages” is a phrase often met with but a glance at the events of the world to-day prompts a questioning as to how much improvement there has really been since those dark” days. The shadow’ of the great European conflagration is fast531 words
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Article984 1927-09-14 740 Fair Drivers The movement towards the emancipation of women in Penang has broken down the final barrier to sex equality. The last stronghold of the stronger” sex, motor-car driving, has been penetrated. To see ladies, European, Chinese or Indian making the pedestrian jump with as much nonchalance as984 words
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Article1792 1927-09-14 741 RICHARD SIDNEY - A Novel of India—A Rough Outline—The Making of Modern Journalism—The Birth of Tit-Bits—A Hidden Cache— W. T. SteadHarmsworth and the Daily Mail”Shock For Readers of the "Times”. BY RICHARD SIDNEY. IFLLV OF THE CARTS A NOVEL OF I.NDIA 1 by John Eyton. (Arrowsmith 7/6 Net). Just1,792 words
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Article121 1927-09-14 742 PROTEST UPHELD BY SANITARY BOARD (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, 7 September At the meeting of the Sanitary Board to-dav a letter signed bv several influential European firms, protesting against the proposal to build a stadium at Circular Hoad, was d'scussed. The main contention was121 words
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Article159 1927-09-14 742 SMART CAPTURE BY MALAY REVENUE OFFICER Tn the early hours of yesterday morning a Bevenue Officer on the Preventive Staff of the Government Monopolies Department, Penang, made a large haul of Amoy chandu, as it was being landed on the beach at Jelutong. About 2.700 tahils valued159 words
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Article155 1927-09-14 742 (To The Editor Of The Straitr Echo) Sii With reference to your report of the proceedings of the prosecution appearing in your issue of the 2nd instant, in which the defendant, Tan Ah Bee, stated that the house in which she lived was rented by one Lire155 words
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Article256 1927-09-14 742 Sir, With regard to the letter of Old Soldier” which you published in your issue of to-day under the heading Avoid Bbe Curse Of Poverty*’, the with many people is their trying to live greatest drawback of the present dav beyond their means in order to256 words
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Article79 1927-09-14 742 Sir, T have read with interest the remarks of Ohl Soklier” made in your columns to day. M\ experience however has been that as long as you owe a few hundred dollars there will not be lacking people who will endeavour to keep you on your feet. As79 words
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441 1927-09-14 742 COMING VISIT TO FEj BI A series of religious lectures will* r delivered between 17 and 21 Bepk her by Dr. E. Stanley Jones, the w. known lecturer. The lectures wiUin English. Dr. Jones lias recently travel throughout America, Europe and tbt Middle East,441 words
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2278 1927-09-14 743 RECORD OF 100 YEARS ACHIEVEMENT Messrs. Guthrie A Co.’s new Kuala Lumpur Buildings were declared open” on Saturday by the British Resident, Selangor, and this event constitutes another important milestone in the history of the Company, which has now completed an existence of2,278 words
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Article48 1927-09-14 744 In the Police Court yesterday Mr. S. N. King granted an adjournment until the 14th instant in a case in which a Tamil named Veerasamy was charged with having disposed of certain stolen property to wit a bullock cart, knowing same to have been stolen48 words
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Article311 1927-09-14 744 JUDGMENT AGAINST ARROL COMPANY In the Supreme Court yesterday morning, before the Hon Mr. Justice P. J. Sproule, the suit was disposed of in which Messrs. Anthony A Company, 5 de Souza Street, Singapore, sued Messrs. Arrol and Company, Stock and Sharebrokers, Penang, for specific performance of a311 words
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Article412 1927-09-14 744 WIRELESS WONDERS Au>t).Hia L. 0., inaugurated Z firs short wave programme on W night and endeavoured to gramme to England to V V' there. 6 The programme was received u pl, 0,1 lueS(J ay evening still in progress at 11.30 p. m The Melbourne Wireless Station412 words
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Article617 1927-09-14 745 LEAN AND CO.’S WEEKLY REPORT Thursday Evexing Tin throughout the week, has fluctuated within very narrow limits, ano the closing prices of £290 10s. for cash and £284 10s. for 3 months’ record a gain of £1 for the spot position, while forward tin shows a loss617 words
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Article56 1927-09-14 745 Judgment in he case in which Ban Tai Tai, a Chinese lady from Hong Kong is claiming for a share in the widows’ benefits from the estate of the lat i Cheang Ah Quee will be delivered in the Supreme Court on Monday. Plaintiff claims to56 words
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Article259 1927-09-14 745 CHARGE WITHDRAWN BY D. P. P. (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, 13 September X case which had aroused considerable interest locally had its sequel at the Assizes when Cheah Tet Lim was charged in connection with an attempt to extort S2,CO) from Foon Yit Sze, a259 words
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Article597 1927-09-14 745 WEEKLY MARKET REPORT Penang, 9 September The price of rubber fluctuated v itl -n Id. por lb and showed a loss of |d. for the.week, the price to-day be Ug IILI Inter/ t in the rubber -hare market quietened down wi M. > pr< lorn a597 words
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