Weekly Sun, 1 April 1911
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Article21 1911-04-01 1 GREATER STRAITS SETTLEMENTS EDITION. 126, CROSS STREET, SINGAPORE. IMMCI-: 5 CENTS. SINGAPORE,. SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1911. NO. 32.21 words
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Advertisement523 1911-04-01 1 Telertapbic Address "DISPENSARY" Singapore. THE DISPENSARY, Ltd.. CHEMISTS, PHARMACISTS, AND OPTICIANS. 43-B, RAFFLES PLACE. The Largest Stock of Drugs. Surgical Instruments. Chemical and Scientific Apparatus and Medi£sl and Surgical Appliances in the Straits Settlements. S&nwns Brothers MANUFACTURERS J o'f A Electrical Machinery, Cables! J Wires, Apparatus and Accessories tor Electric523 words
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Advertisement41 1911-04-01 1 j[ Td ;.h:r Addrrss "DISPENSARY" Singapore. f THE DISPENSARY, Ltd., I CHOIIoTS, PHARMACISTS, AND B OPTICIANS. I 43-e, RAFFLES PLACE. Jj?£C!AL ATTENTION C'VE.^l TO THE EQUIPMENT OF ESTATE m HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES. 1 QUOTATIONS SUBMITTED. I D. TIM MS, M.P.S., M<iH"ger.%41 words
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Advertisement480 1911-04-01 2 SPECIAL EXCEPTIONAL OFFER! To Chinese Gentlemen Only. AT THE GRAND ORIENTAL HAIR DRESSING SALOON. 6, Change Alley, Singapore/Higlt-Class Coiffeur. r,\ J Charges. Hair-Cutting ...$0.35 1 Shaving 0.15 Shampooing 0.15 Perfumer; Washing 0.15 Hair-Cutting, Shaving, Shampooing and Per- J- 0.60 ftllnery Washing J Face Electric Vibrator) A V A Massage 40480 words
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Advertisement110 1911-04-01 2 MOTOR CARS FOR HIRE night Tel. 514 GREAT REDUCTIONS. HIGH CLASS CARS TO SEAT FIVE PERSONS INCLUDING DRIVER FIRST HOUR $5.00 EVERY SUCCEEDING HOUR $3.00 PER HOUR WITH THE EXCEPTION OF OUR 6 CYLINDER "STANDARD" WHICH IS FITTED WITH A TAXIMETER AND AUTOMATICALLY REGISTERS THE AMOUNT C. F. F. WEARNE110 words
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Article658 1911-04-01 3 A Forty-three Million Dollars Story. A striking article entitled M American Defeat in the Pacific nppears in a recent issue of T%€ Outlook. The author, Mr. Frederick McCormick, takes as his cue the announcement from Washington that American exports to China havo declined from a maximum of $53,600,000658 words
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Article472 1911-04-01 3 Lieut. -Colonel Gordon Carter has been appointed clerk of the course at Ascot. Sir Percy Girouard, Governor of the East Africa Protectorate, has arrived at Nairobi on his return from England. A great Imperial Preference demonstration has been arranged to take place at the Albert Hall, on472 words
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Article90 1911-04-01 3 A telegram has been received by the Central Government from Jf. E. Hsi Liang, the Viceroy of Manchuria, in which His Excellency states that the Japanese authorities are displeased that the Chinese authorities should exhibit good treatment to the Koreans. Conflicts have often arisen from this90 words
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Article54 1911-04-01 3 H. E. Hsu Shih-chang, member of the Grand Council, has forwarded a telegram to Yuan Shih-kai informing him that ho will be reinstated in the near future. Yuan Shih-kai has replied that he will not accept any position and that lie has decided not to enter54 words
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Advertisement228 1911-04-01 3 STEEL FRAMED BUILDINGS RUBBER FACTORIES, SMOKE AND DRYING HOUSES, BUNGALOWS, COOLIE LINES, HOSPITALS, etc., etc., Erected complete on Site. :o: Rubber Machines for Hand op Power. May be seen in operation at our works. SIMPLE, ECONOMICAL, STRONG AND DURABLE. Call and see our SPECIAL HAND MACHINE for treating BARK and228 words
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Article1103 1911-04-01 4 It will b© remembered thai the original dispute in connection with the Chientao affair arose from the necessity for determining the status of Koreans who had migrated into China because of the harsh rule to which they were exposed during the Japanese protectorate of Korea, and that1,103 words
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Article138 1911-04-01 4 Story of a Scheme of Reform. Lord Lansdowne h;is authorised the jLondon "Evening News" to make an interesting statement with regard to an article by Mr. Birrell in this month's issue of tho Liberal Magazine." Mr. Birrell mentions that in 1831; Macaulay addressed to the Lord138 words
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Article118 1911-04-01 4 An extraordinary fact has been revealed at an inquset at Chell Workhouse, North Staffordshire, concerning the death of a Buißlem boot repairer, in whose skull was found a pieca of steel two inches long and a quar ter of an inch thick. It was the handle118 words
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524 1911-04-01 4 A new book by Eden Phillpotts is always «i welcome addition to the realm of fiction. The latest volume from the pen of this fine writer is called Talcs of the Ttimments and the scenario is, of course, Mr. Phillpott's own especial demesne524 words
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Article81 1911-04-01 4 At Lisbon the mail boat Armjan from Brazil was only able to land her passengers with the aid of troops owing to a strike of the boatman. A passenger named Viegas was arrested and stated that he was an emissary of the monarchists in Rio Janeiro and was connected81 words
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Article43 1911-04-01 4 Speaking at luncheon at Yakuiu Sir Percy Girouard, Governor of East Africa mentioned tbat Lord Kitchener was so struck with the prospects of the protectorate -that he had applied for land, abd was returning later in the year to develop it.43 words
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Article99 1911-04-01 4 A Western American editor received the following letter Please send me a few copies of the paper which had the obituary and verses about the death of my child a week or so ago. Also publish the enclosed clipping about my niece's marriage. And I wish you99 words
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Advertisement40 1911-04-01 4 GOLD MEDAL AWARDED TO Indian Patent Stone. FOR EXCELLENCE and STRENGTH AT THE INDUSTRIAL AND AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITION, CALCUTTA, 190 6-7. USED WHEREVER A LASTING SURFACE is REQUIRED. STABLES. RESERVOIRS. STORAGE GODOWNST WRITE NOW FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS: Shappe, Ross Co., Ltd.40 words
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Advertisement625 1911-04-01 4 •'IT IS A FINE THING TO FEEL PERFECTLY WELL." The Thankful 'Words of Retibip) Hospital Matron im Burma, Curio After Eight Years Suffkrinq From Anaemia, Headaches and Stomach Disorders by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Herself formerly a hospital nurse, Mrs Ruth Niedermeyer has seen much of nick. ness and suffering625 words
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Article277 1911-04-01 5 Busoh a Malay was fined $1 and cost, and also bound over to keep the peace for three months, for assaulting Mutusamy a clerk in the Straits Times Press, at a wedding party given by one of the employee's of the Press. A Teochew named Dan Ah Sing was277 words
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Article858 1911-04-01 5 Before Mr. Acton three Malays named Omar bin Bakar, Haji Ahmat and Omar bin Tamby were charged with trespassing on the Raffles Reclamation ground, and also with using criminal force to Hashim secretary to the Malaya Football Association. There is also a crosscharge brought by the two Omars against858 words
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Article454 1911-04-01 5 Poo Jong Juan a Hylam was charged with voluntarily causing hurt to Tng Gwek Ngoh a young Hokien girl. The evidence went to show that the girl was walking along Albert Street, when the accused approached and seized her by the arm. She remonstrated and he struck her on454 words
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Article348 1911-04-01 5 Abubakar a Malay was fined $5 or seven days, for using criminal force to a Japanese woman in Malabar Street. He pleaded guilty, and said, he was drunk and did not know what he was about. Sixteen Hockchia rickshaw pullers were fined $3 or five days each, for playing348 words
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Article254 1911-04-01 5 Chan Gim a Hokien was sentenced to one months' rigorous imprisonment for failing to give a satisfactory account, how he came by some pieces of brass and electric wire valued at $10. He said, he bought them from a second-hand shop, but could not pofht out the shop to254 words
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297 1911-04-01 5 LIST OF SUBSCRIPTION TO THE KING EDWARD VII MEMORIAL FUND. Amount previously acknowledged $35,197.42 Kedah Government 5,000. Messrs. Borneo Co., Ltd. 1,000. Ong Kim Wee, Esq. Malacca 1,000.— Messrs. Singapore Electric Tramways Ltd. 500.— The Medical Hall 100.— Penang Traders Association 100.— W. W. MacMillan, Esq. 100.— D. Kerr, Esq.297 words
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Article215 1911-04-01 5 A highly satisfactory beginning was made at the opening of the new Chinese Girls* School at 1 Tank Road, on Thursday, March 30, (Ist of the 3rd moon) at 10 a.m., when a considerable number of the local Chinese merchants were present along with the Acting Chinese215 words
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69 1911-04-01 5 Thai Seng Yin, Esq. (Acting Chinese Consul-General. $500 Puah Choon Yang, Esq. $500 Sou Tiang Teck, Esq. $500 Tan Siang Cheng, Esq. $500 Ee Hua Chiang, Esq. $200 Tee Siang, Esq. $200 Heng Mong, Esq. $200 Sim69 words
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Article788 1911-04-01 5 An old-time post office assistant is very deaf, and takes it for granted that when he meets an acquaintance the first question or remark will b« about the weather. One day last week a friend met him and asked loudly, 1 Well, how's the wife?" Judge of hie788 words
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515 1911-04-01 6 The Weekly Sun. SATURDAY, APRIL 1. HALF TRUTHS ABOUT ENGLISHMEN. Fixed ideas about countries are as hard to alter as fixed notions about people. The truth about foreign lands and life filters, but slowly into the English mind, and in the Vneantime he applies to the vast and varied lands515 words
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Article812 1911-04-01 6 Ti:r Hoard of Agriculture, Industry and CoMiUtcrofl has appointed 11. E. Chang Yu-nan to proceed to the Dutch Indies in order to investigate commercial enterprise carried on by Chinese in those islands and to urge them to develop as fully as possible the trade with their mother country.812 words
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Article225 1911-04-01 6 A book has been published by the Malay States Development Agency in London which has come to our hands, and bits of which we have read with interest, is an illustrated guide to the Federated Malay States, published as on aid to those good people who225 words
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Article310 1911-04-01 6 Now that Wv? have time to think about it, somebody ought to stick up for the reputation of the Singapore atmosphere. The showman-aviator who recently struckthat Settlement, and got so much free advertising, seems to have blamed the itmosphere foF his o\rn failure to M make good." We are310 words
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Article181 1911-04-01 6 An unusual surgical 'operation was performed at Vienna recently at the Franz •Joseph Hospital by J^rofessor Lotheisen upon a man of 40, name*! Taclia. He had been confined in a publiv lunatic asylum, where, about three montjhs ;igo he secretly abstracted fourteen iron [spoons and swallowed them.181 words
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Article42 1911-04-01 6 The steawcr Baunockburn bas been beached jkin^over. It is reported that a severe blAnr-l*' took place on bo.ird. TJ lAiUK'^qjm vn w attacked the officers most KavageJK aims were resorted to by tin* I'i'itiaJCrrs, and several <>f the meu w-r*42 words
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Advertisement440 1911-04-01 6 KELLY AND WALSH, LIMITED. USEFUL BUSINESS BOOKS. TheCompany-Seoretaryby W. 11. Fox 513.75 Guide to Indexing and Precis Writing 60 Pitman'* (limit- to Commercial Torres- Elements of Commercial Law by Douglas 60 pondence and Business Composition S5 Elements of Hanking by J. Gandy 60 Pitman's Manual of Business Training 1.40 Anderson's440 words
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Article314 1911-04-01 7 Choice for Convicted tyarderers. A novel I«*w providing an alternative to hanging for mnrdrtrm* on whom the death sentences has been parsed was presented to-day to the Nevada Legislature. It seth' forth that any perfton about to Mffer capi -j tal punishment ma;, if lie pleases,314 words
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Article246 1911-04-01 7 K\rn ade if man can hear monev talk. i A funny story ppi* more applause thftn leusible l;vlk. 5 Generally, whea a man tries to flatter I another he wants to borrow a bit. When a yonng iii.tii U s* «'ii ;«t church j ofton, it is no246 words
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Article30 1911-04-01 7 The death is announced in Chefoo, irom plague, of Dr. Shu, of Kwan Yu-tong, who contracted the disease from patients whom he was attending.30 words
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Article29 1911-04-01 7 Peking reports that John Wanmacker, the Philadelphia millionaire, is to £jive |60,ti00 gold to build a Y.M.C.A. building in the Chinese capital.29 words
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Advertisement588 1911-04-01 7 B.C.L. I B.C.L. I B.C.L B.C.L 6.C.L. B.C.L i TO PLANTERS If id r And Others. IN OPDEK TO J PRESERVE WOODEN BUILDINGS against the attacks O of WHITE ANTS, D3Y ROT AND DECAY m It is ESSENTIAL that JODELITE (Regis- jtered) BE USED. SERAYAH and other soft woods are588 words
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Advertisement562 1911-04-01 7 CHINA MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO., LTD. Head Office: Shanghai. Registered under the Life Assurance Companies Acts, England, and under the Hongkong Ordinances. Subscribed Capital... Taels 500,000. Paid-up Capital 50,000. Total Insurance in force $37,855,885. Total Assets 8,4 15,249. Total Funds 8,216,812. Total Income for Year 3,566,557. AGENCIES THROUGHOUT THE EHST.562 words
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Article452 1911-04-01 8 The Novoye Vremya of St. Petersburg publishes a telegram from Harbin stating that a fight took place between a detachment of fifty Chinese soldiers and two hundred pillaging Chunchuses, twentyfive miles northward of Kwang-cheng-tsze. The former were defeated, three bein^ killed and ten wounded. Lord Kitchener, who left452 words
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Article415 1911-04-01 8 The young long-distance swimmer Mr. Wee Kim Hook has accepted the offer of a silver medal from one of the swimming instructors of the Chinese Swimming Club to swim from town to the club. He will swim on the 16th April at 12.10 p.m. start ing from the415 words
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Article227 1911-04-01 8 It is reported fro n Macao that two Portuguese crossed over the Chinese frontier at Kwan Cha to Pei Shan-ling with several hundred Chinese workmen the other day and pulled down several hundred t'eet of fence belonging to the villagers. At the same there were about two227 words
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Advertisement122 1911-04-01 8 HOLIDAY-TICKETS. Between K>th April and 15th July, 1911, Holi-day-Tickets to and from all the places of the Nether-lands-India Archipelago (Singapore and Penang included) will be issued. These tickets entitle the passenger to make a return-voyage against payment of single fare and are available for any steamer of the following lines122 words
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Advertisement86 1911-04-01 8 For Sale. The British Steam Launch Busso" built in 1906. Length 60 feet. Breadth 13.5. Depth 5.5. Gross tonnage 10.85. The vessel is in excellent condition, and her speed is about 9 knots. For further particulars, apply to BOEY CHUAN POH, The Union Times Press.*' 126, Cross Street. Ye Old86 words
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Advertisement285 1911-04-01 8 TOGO Co. JAPANESE COLLOTYPE PRINTING. No. 158, MIDDLE ROAD, SINGAPORE. Printing of Picture, Post Card, Enlargement Photos. At Request will take Photos at any place. WingOn&Co. TAILORS AND OUTFITTERS. DIRECT IMPORTERS. JUST RECEIVED A FINE ASSORTMENT OF Tweeds, K l3l nnels, AND Serges. 6O HIGH STREET, SINGAPORE. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. Specifics285 words
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Advertisement334 1911-04-01 8 LAMBERT CO., LIMITED. Photographers AN D Hrt Dealers. 3-A ORCHARD ROAD. HIGH CLASS Photography TTTT7TTTQ SINGAPORE, ALL WORK SUPERVISED BY A COMPETENT EUROPE 4/V--CHING KENG LEE CO.. 3. RAFFLES PLACE, SINGAPORE. Auctioneers, Estate Commission Agents Contractors. Mortgages and Loans arranged and Labour of any description supplied. TERMS MODERATE. Telephone 80.334 words
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Article493 1911-04-01 9 Mr. E. R. Stokoe and Dr. Fraser of the F. M. S., left for Home by this week's German mail. The body of a Chinaman was washed up at the East Reclamation at Tanjong Pagar on Monday. Mr. W. G. Worcester formerly a popular Singapore resident, is on493 words
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Advertisement222 1911-04-01 9 Sledge Brand Milk IS SUPPLIED TO ADL THE GOVERNMENT MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES. ASK FOR.— (t SLED6E n Natural Sterilized Milk OH "SLEDGE" Condensed Unsweetened Milk. SOLE IMPORTERS: J. Travers Sons, Ltd. YOUR TEETH ARE YOUR HEAL'TH. KEEP YOUR TEETH IN CONDITION BY CONSULTING Ng Poo Chow,222 words
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Advertisement36 1911-04-01 9 THIS IS IT. TASTELESS. ODOURLESS. tThe latest scientific preparation of COD LIVER OIL. Does all that is claimed for it and supersedes the old fashioned emulsions which upset the stomach. OF ALL CHEMISTS. $I.SO and #2.00.36 words
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Advertisement548 1911-04-01 9 ABOUT PILLS. Many people have no hesitation in taking a dozen bottles of medicine in liquid N j^m^ *l form prescribed by a doctor, but view with alarm the suggestion to H m^\ cL take a course of pills. This misapprehension is no doubt due to the S rjS JJ548 words
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Article860 1911-04-01 10 Dr. Yamei Kin Tells of the Progress of Her Country. New York, Feb. 12.— Dr. Yamei Kin, superintendent of tire Government hospital at Tientsin, China, and the first Chinese woman to receive a medical education in this country, spoke at the Hudson Theatre yesterday morning860 words
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Article410 1911-04-01 10 A short time ago, it was announced from Constantinople that a delegation of Chinese Muhannnadans had arrived there. Tliis brought to mind the little-considered fact «that at least aeven millions of the inhabitants of the Middle Kingdom are of this faith. In Peking alone there arc 200,000 and410 words
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Article130 1911-04-01 10 The City man is exposed to many risks, but a new one has suddenly sprung up to inconvenience him. An outbreak mumps has laid up a number of City bank official and other business men. It is a ratl*er undignified ailment. Its victims are not inclined to130 words
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Article85 1911-04-01 10 There is man at Taiping we would like to moot for two minutes. We'd trv to make his seal in the temple an nncomfortihle one. Ho wrote complaining to our; Managing-Director that the Editor had not published a letter he Bent, and Insisted •m its going in.85 words
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Article57 1911-04-01 10 Scotsmen in Singapore will bo intorebted to know that the Scottish postal employers are still smiling over the assertions of Sir Matthew Nathan, Post Office Secretary, that oatmeal porridge i:i Scotland, takos tin; platv of moat in England, and general) v that Scotsmen live in smaller house57 words
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Article130 1911-04-01 10 English Doctor Burnt to Death. An Englishman known «ms Dr. Willoughby, an inmate of a lunatic asvlum at Yokohama! vm burned to death in tlie course of a fire in the institution. The unfortunate man had been for some yean I past under the cue of Dr. Hall,130 words
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Article123 1911-04-01 10 Hong Chin, Salt Commissioner of CheIciang, and Chang Tsu-Chi, Taotai of the Knei-Ping-wii Circuit of Kwan^si arc ordered to vacate their respective- posts and be presented to Us h\ the Board concerned. Chen Yii-lien is appointed B*H Commissioner of thefciang and Slien Lin vi is appointed Taotai of123 words
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Article104 1911-04-01 10 The Board of Posts and Communications proposes to build an iron bridge, 2, G00, Odd, Chines* feet Jong, across and the Yangts/e River from Slie Shan in Wuchang to Chu Shan in Hanyang so as to connect the Peking-Hankow and Canton-Hankow Railways. On the bridge there104 words
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Article88 1911-04-01 10 The new serum te^t for blood brought into a recent criminal trial is based on The curious fact that beruu from a rabbit or I mouse into which human serum has been injected gives a precipitate with human serum but not with that of the88 words
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Advertisement212 1911-04-01 10 PATRONIZED BY ROYALTY. The M Britannic Patent Expanding CJClateh Bracelets. j^^^^^^^^^P^t^ 18-carat Gold Bracelets fflP^rtm s^^> with Lever Watch Diamonds and Emeralds J oo!^^ Diamonds and Sapphires $300 to $550, and Plain Gold Wrist Watch Bracelets $50 to $150 and J Ladies' and Gent's Gold and Silver Watches in single212 words
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Advertisement177 1911-04-01 10 ADVERTISEMENTS, LEE MEEN YUEH. All kinds of Cigars and Cigarettes for sale. 100, North Bridge Road. ROOM WANTED. Wanted, room and bath room, furnished. Good District. Private family. B. o/o Weekly Sun. POSITION WANTED. Englishman with vast experience with coolie labour, seeks position on rubber estate. Highest references Apply Z,177 words
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Advertisement761 1911-04-01 11 THE OUTPORT TRADING COMPANY. GENERAL TRADERS AND E TAXIDERMISTS. RR/NSEP ST. SINGAPORE. (Open Daily from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. E J ~ff Sundays and Public Holidays). BOOKS. (New and Second-Hand). nKi-yclopaedii Dritannica (ninth edition) 25 volumes $160.00 iwontietn Century Impressions of British Mihtya 40.00 Taylor*! Principles and Practice of761 words
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Advertisement351 1911-04-01 11 KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSGHAPPIJ. (ROYAL DUTCH PACKET COMPANY.) Under Contract with the Netherlands India Government. Ageitt at Singapore The Ships Agency. IM.. 2-3 Collyer Quay. JiAIL TABLE-MARCH 27TH TO 12TH APRIL, 1911. The undermentioned dates are only approximate. STEAMSHIP. From Expected. Will be Despatched for:— Sailing Date. van den Bosch Batavia351 words
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Advertisement240 1911-04-01 11 LIM COMPANY. printers, Bookbinders, !>tation£rs, $oo k§£ll£rs. COMMISSION ESTATE AGENTS. 17, BLACKSMITH STREET, MALACCA. Orders promptly executed. Kong Hing Cfiiong Co. iHOTocRA.mc dealers Colonial Dispensary. Mb, Chemicals, Cameras, Plates Papers Always in Stock. e t KLING STREET. DEVELOPING AND PRINTING A SPECIALITY. Drugs of the Finest Quality KEPT IN STOCK.240 words
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Advertisement178 1911-04-01 12 |Br A] 1 y^-^ I K*' P~ l B^ 1 "^^Q 11 aa H I I over vJi Gal ana v^lCatCi Oniain 1 F kms^itu d &-&-1. <w j 8 the unbounded and increasing popularity of I I IdIIIG 3riCl K^llVGr 1 clbcl I I i^#^^- c >■ B I178 words
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