Weekly Sun, 31 August 1912
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Title Section21 1912-08-31 1 The Weekly Sun. GREATER STRAITS SETTLEMENTS EDITION, 126, CROSS STREET. SINGAPORE. PRICE r> CENTS. SINGAPORE. SATURDAY. AUGUST 81. 191^. HO. IPS.21 words
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Advertisement541 1912-08-31 1 "shopsoiled7 Bargains to Clear Infant I white goatskin tie or uZSuI? i light and comfortable or «wS^V^ are m Hires from 1 to 9 uu\ l£L L hlld ren *1.70 tos2.Bl»perpair on^in.l price mw Clearance price for any size ric .»c MI G WHITEAWAY'S flow" I L Cj Cj i541 words
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Advertisement34 1912-08-31 1 Childrens Roman Sandals. Tan Calf, stv-le ;•< illustration. Sizes 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, J2, 13, 1. Usual Prices $2.50 to $3.00 per pair. Sale Price for any size 95 cents per pair. AT WHITEAWAY'S34 words
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Article529 1912-08-31 2 A Heuter's dispatch from Cl«engtu tells j of the business difficulties wlr.ch are en- ountered m thit place, difficulties which! are doubtless common to hundreds of other places m the country. The banks refuse to accept the paper currency which is so plentiful m exchange, for drafts529 words
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Advertisement393 1912-08-31 2 SWIMMER BRAND. NATURAL MILK. £> iwmrnep brand milk is a milk W hich will satisfy anyone who s desirous, to get a first class sterlized J M ilk which (owing 1 to its flavour, cream and price) is < M ost fit to become the favourite brand m the E393 words
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Advertisement156 1912-08-31 2 ADVERTISEMENTS. TO CAPITALISTS. Wanted by a European firm a working partner with $4000/- to 5000- for a very profitable* and established business Guaranteed good returns. Wishing to enlarge present business. Apply Box 568 c o Weekly Sun. "~~~'™"~WAINTED. QuaJihed European Chemist desires position of trust. Excellent references. Apply "BRITISHER," c156 words
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Advertisement275 1912-08-31 2 A Few Reasons Why You Should Buy a FOID BECAUSE 125,000 others are using the same make of car, and getting the utmost satisfaction from their purchase. BECAUSE every other car you meet on the road, both m the Straits and F. M. S., is a Ford which testifies to275 words
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Article4367 1912-08-31 3 Ntws From all Sources. Peking, Aegoet 12—At to day's meetin* of thy National Assembly the Minister for the Nary, r*pr e*entins; the Premier, informed the House that Presi dent Yuan Bfcih-k ai had nominated Liv Kuei-yi as MieiBter of Commerce. He said that the President's nominee was young and4,367 words
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Advertisement92 1912-08-31 3 If you really want a First Class CYCLE TYRE a Cycle Tyre that is known the world over for its durability and reliability you should always fit 1 he Continental SPECIAL. Obtainable FroMi John Little Co. Ltd. Robinson Co. Straits Cycle Motor Co. Ltd. Katz Bros. Ltd. Singapore Cycle Store92 words
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Article186 1912-08-31 4 Very few people m China will agrep with the statement made m the English Parliament a few dayi ago bj Hon. Edwin Samuel Montagu, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for India that "it is a bad time for v* to extinguish the (opium) frrade with China, as it wouldA.P. - 186 words
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Article54 1912-08-31 4 The Number of Bluejackets. According to investigations, the following is a comparison of the number of the bluejackets m the navies of the Tarious Powers Great Britain 136,000 Germany ***** ranc e 60,000 America ***** a P an 48,000 S u f Bla 46,000 I 454 words
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Advertisement146 1912-08-31 4 si&r TILES. Drainpipes. We hold large *t< ot M KANEEGUNGE." tb© following at all times: r fFI T1 M STROMCEST AND CHEAPEST. Cement Floor Tiles, I. P. S. tfooai Tiles, Marble Slabs, White G Wall Til< T Glazed Tiles m all irtisti igns, French Large quantities of all Roofing Tiles,146 words
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Advertisement215 1912-08-31 4 Siemens Brothers, MANUFACTURERS OF Electrical Machinery, Cables Wires, Apparatus and Accessories tor Electric Light, Power and Traction Purposes. HEAD OFFICE Caxton House, Westminster. LONDON. Supplies Department Upper Thames Street, LONDON. WORK'S. Stafford. Woolwich. DaftiM. BRANCHES. Cape Town, Melbourne, Calcutta, Toronto, Bombay, Penang, Madras, Rangoon Sydney, AND Winchester House. COLLYER QUAY.215 words
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POLICE NEWS.
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Article833 1912-08-31 5 About forty Chinese hawkers were fined $2 or five days each for obstructing the public roads Middle, Selegie Rochor Roads Queen, Albert and Victoria Streets with baskets. The two coal coolies Ang Ka Pway and Goh Giat who were convicted of theft of four bottles of samsu value $3.20833 words
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Article572 1912-08-31 5 Vi A Sam and Sim Bian, were fined *1 or three days, for disorderly conduct by fighting at Tanjong Pagar Road Two Bengali cart-drivers, Samaru and Bacho, were fined $2 or five days each, for driving their bullock-cart m a rash or negligent manner at Kampong Bahru Road. Eighteen572 words
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Article736 1912-08-31 5 For spiking m the Clyde Terrace Market, Ang Lang a Teochew, Was fined $2 or five days. For striking a rickshaw-puller on the mouth with his fist, a Cantonese named Chan Yune was fined $5 or seven days. Tang Ji Koon, Tang Li Heng and Tek Chak Sia, were736 words
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Article375 1912-08-31 5 For striking Ng Quee with a piece of wood on his head Pua Kuat, was ordered to pay $10 or fourteen days. Vat Chit Chit, th* Hockchia man who pleaded guilty before Mr. Talma to stealing a teak rattan lounging chair value $10, belonging to Mrs. Emma Crawford of375 words
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Article331 1912-08-31 5 Chua Chit Quee, a Baba, of No. 15 Purvis Street, was charged with using criminal force to his father Koh Tian Chim of Middle Road. The father asked for a postponement to call witnesses and asked the magistrate to note down the swellings on both his cheeks and other331 words
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Article737 1912-08-31 5 Never run after a tramcar or a woman there'll be anothtr one along directly/'— Ho«k's Proverbs. Marriage it a gamble, like rubber speculation, and m both it is the littlt differences that bring about th© smash. Lawyer Was prisoner m the vicinity at the time Witness—* 4 He737 words
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442 1912-08-31 6 The Weekly Sun. SATURDAY. AUGUST 31. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. America's system of criminal procedure gives a person accusjed of crime the presumption ofj innocence until his guilt is proved. This is exactly contrary to the system m operation m some countries, where a person accused of crime is presumed to be442 words
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Article132 1912-08-31 6 At the Victoria, the Allan Wilkie Company continue to draw the multitude to this theatre every night like the magnet to the pole, and the claim of Miss Hunter Watts, seem like the charms of Cleopatra, Time cannot either nor custom stale them." Sweet Lavender, 1132 words
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Article147 1912-08-31 6 HAS HE SUPERNATURAL POWER On his arrival here, Professor Kendal, the astrologer, palmist, and prophet, who has won fame and worldwide renown all over Europe, the Middle and Far East through his great gifts of almost supernatural powers, accorded an interview to a Press representative, who was astounded hy the147 words
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Article95 1912-08-31 6 New Cbinese Enterprise Messrs. Hin Thai, Dried Fruit' Merchants, of 19 Market Street, Singapore, are now opening up a big trade here and all over the F.M.S. m dried fruits. The follow fruits are packed m airtight tins, bearing the well-known (Chicken Chop) Hin Thai,'* which can be95 words
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Article72 1912-08-31 6 Th* above Shield Competition under the auspices of the Straits Chinese Football Association will probably start m th« middle of next month and entries close on the 6th September, 1912. Any Chinese Clubs desiring to enter tljis Competition are requested to communicate to Mr- Lim Kee72 words
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Article38 1912-08-31 6 Robinson's great annual clearance sale commences on Monday, Sept. 2nd. The Bandmann Opera Company open their season on Thursday, Sept. 5, with the great Japanese musical play "IS*© Mouaoae." Booking at th« Robinson Piafno Co, Prices as usual38 words
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Article608 1912-08-31 6 .The battleship Fuso, which is m course of construction at the Kurp Naval Arsenal, Japan fs expected to be launched m August of next year. The minting of new Japanese silver coins bearing the inscription of the first year of Taisho has been started at the Osaka608 words
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Advertisement59 1912-08-31 6 i I ISfrft h^feti^sislSSßP^ life;- 1 I !sj pi fl •1 p y I I Hi i 'r; 1 NEW RECORDS DOUBLE SIDED 10 inches $1.25. (TEMPTATION RAG. ISMILER RAG. (VENUS ON EARTH WTZ. (MASKEN POLONAISE. (CARRIE. {YOU'VE GOT TO SING IN RAGTIME. (1 CAN'T KEEP THE FLIES. J OFF59 words
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Advertisement30 1912-08-31 6 ARE YOU PARTICULAR? You know quality, demand value We supply only Wines and Spirits of choice quality. Garner Quelch&Co. A.TT3 RY ROAD, SINGAPORE. AND AT SHANGHAI, HONGKONG AND LONDON. 1-630 words
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Article1707 1912-08-31 7 Mr. Chan Kwang-ming, Commandant of the Canton Army, has issued an order to Colonel Wu, commander of the military forces m Chiu-chow, and the magistrates of the districts m the same prefectur that it has come to his knowledge that gambling is commonly and widely indulged m by1,707 words
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Advertisement75 1912-08-31 7 Caldbeck Macgregor and Company. Wholesale and Retail WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, Ales, Beer and Stout Importers. telephone No. 160. Price Lists m appticitl§& BRANCHES AT LONDON, GLASGOW, BHANCHAI, HONGKONG, TIENTSIN Alt KUALA LUMPUR, WITH AGENCIES THROUGHOUT THE EAST. 13-7 'His Master's Voice* GRAM||||HONE IS A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. BEWARE OF CHEAP75 words
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Article254 1912-08-31 8 Only two days ago we bad occasion to remark upon the singular circumstance that the summer to far had been so free from deaths resulting from heat, says the N.-C. Daily News, but now this immunity has been rudely broken. A painful tragedy resulting from sun-stroke254 words
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Correspondence.
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Letter96 1912-08-31 8 To the Editor of the Weekly Sun. Dear Sir,— Why all this controversy over the Tang lin Club If a real and up-to-date Club is wanted, why not enlargen the S.C.C.'s premises? The site is the finest, the most suitable, and within reach of all business and96 words
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Article1218 1912-08-31 8 By Rev. T. Torrance The Occidental m the Far East finds much to make the Bible a new book to him. Numberless passages of Holy-Writ which m the home-land lose half of their force if not also of their meaning become to one1,218 words
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Advertisement420 1912-08-31 8 WANTED. Young lady to accompany Chinese lady to England. Passage home and out. Good salary paid to suitable party. Apply by letter to F. C. W. c/o Weekly Sun." LOST. Minature fox terrier dog, answering to name of Sung/ sharp features, about one year old. Good reward. Apply, "KENG: c/o420 words
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Advertisement46 1912-08-31 8 LOSING WEIGHT BY THE POUND "Under Weight," a condition of > ill-health, shows your assimilative j powers are decreasing. S i WATERBURYS METABOLIZED COD LIVER OIL S 1 COMPOUND I Supplies the blood with the wanted nourishing and healthy flesh building materials. Very palatable. OF ALL CHEMISTS46 words
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Advertisement142 1912-08-31 8 THIS IG IT! I miium mmg Waterbury's Metabolized j Cod Liver Oil Compound i6S3T TASTELESS ODOURLESS Tlk: liitebt M-iontific preparation of /f^ffiWh 4b^ '.1 COP LIVIJ: OH,. Does all that is r^'.r-| I yjcr;'^t:.s claimed for it and supersedes the old- 1 \,t7*J^ fasliioned emulsions which U[>set Iho i^fei^ 1142 words
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Article1427 1912-08-31 9 Read at the Nineth Red Cross Conference at Washington, D.C. By T Theodore Wong". Red Rross work m China was begun m 1904 during the war between Russia and Japan. An International Committee was organized m Shanghai m March of that year, for the purpose1,427 words
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Advertisement192 1912-08-31 9 Sledge Brand Milk 18 SUPPLIED TO ALL THE COVERNMENT MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES. ASK FOR SLEDGE" Natural Sterilized Milk OH PLEDGE" Condensed Unsweetened Milk. SOLE IMPORTERS^: I J Travers Sons, Ltd. WT Br BB^Bfe^ w '^BB V* Jp^ t**P* w^B b^B^*v^bbbt^s J mi^^^^^" mi Ht* fl ■Bb^bEHblbV192 words
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Advertisement51 1912-08-31 9 A. LEE CO. GENERAL MERCHANTS. FODDERS FOR HORSES. Indian Crushed Food. Bran. Oats. Australian Chaff. Roller Flour. Paddy. GOOD CHEAP. No. 47, Carpenter Street, SINGAPORE. TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS "ALEE SINGAPORE." sth Edition A. B. d Cod* 3-8 Dr. FUROMOTO, JAPANESE DENTIST. 98, North Bridge Road. Best treatment available m Singapore. Reasonable51 words
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Advertisement147 1912-08-31 9 Jodelite (Registered.) The Great Timber Preservative. It a m. AII kindB of S ft timber such sOTayab, are after treatment with Jodelite, permanently protected against attacks of white ants dry rot and decay. y Protection of Para Rubber Trees. After pruning the trees apply a thin coat of Cold Jodelite147 words
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Article1357 1912-08-31 10 In a n*mse» of neu*y puMithed hook "Sun Vat .SV n and thr Awakening of China," By Janus Cantlir, and C. Shtridem Jones. (Jarrold, tit. net.) Tht Londo-n Times say* Dr. Cant lie's description of the most conspicuous of Young China's Republican loaders ig1,357 words
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Article72 1912-08-31 10 With the marines ;m<l sailors lived up at I ittention on dock and ih» i band playing < national anthemu fche Baihhow, flagship ofji :hc United S( \-i Bieet, with Rear I; Aduiiml K. Nicholson ou boards sailed i lowa Ihe Whangpoo recently t»ouad for ffingtaa. From72 words
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588 1912-08-31 10 His excellency slid Roys and master* of the district Bciiooli The reports that have been read are very satisfactory, but the most notable feature is the success, of the Wantsai district School, m winning the Sir Mathrw Nat baa Hygiene Challenge; Shield. This is588 words
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Article120 1912-08-31 10 The British Museum has acquired what is believed to be the oldest examples of Chinese writing extant. The collection consists of a number of animal b»nes ou which archaic characters have been inscribed. Owing to their extreme antiquity, the inscriptions have been only partially decipherable. It is120 words
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Article113 1912-08-31 10 m A week ago Mr. Edison the inventor denied that he was the anonymous donor of a large sum to a college. As notwithstanding this contradiction the story was persisted m Mr. Edison has grown warm m the debate and says I can use my113 words
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Article370 1912-08-31 10 The present great diversity of the stret t name plates m London was disovssed at a confer enoe ju»t held at the Koyal Uiti tute of British Architect*. Members of borough cotincili m nearly every purfc of London attended and there was a free interchange of370 words
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Advertisement113 1912-08-31 10 PROTOS MOTOR CARS. HIGHCLASS WORKMANSHIP. STRONG CONSTRUCTION. VERY SILENT RUNNING. Largely used by Royalty. Cars m Stocks Torpedo and Half-Torpedo Double Phaeton Cars to seat 5 and 7 persons. All finished m the?best style. jj A** t. 1 -afcii- f l tyfU- «*L > *A fT^,- J '^f- ml& M113 words
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Advertisement318 1912-08-31 11 BRITISH INDIA I STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. APCAR LINE. The undermentioned mail steamers ofj the above Lino maintain a regular service between Calcutta and Japan, calling at Penang, Singapore, Hongkong and Shanghai en route. FLEET. Tons. Commander. *s Japan 6,013 L. Y. Archdeacon. 6S Grepory Apcar 4,600 J. E. Drake.318 words
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Advertisement318 1912-08-31 11 KQNINKUJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. (ROYAL DUTCH PACKET COMPANY.) Under Contract with the Nkthbklands India Government. Agents at Singapore The Ships Agency. Ul. 2-3 Collyer Qaay. j MAIL TABLE-AUGUST 22ND TO 315T,1d12. The undermentioned dates are only approximate. Steamship. From Expected. Will be Despatched for:— D^ate!* de Klerk Muntok Au^. 22 Muntok,318 words
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Advertisement234 1912-08-31 11 THE POPULIAR BRftND. sc- T AJ I ONii S /u^^^^tfv oiocKeai v !L V V THE DENTAL HALL. BRAS BASSA ROAD. UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF Or. J. IWATSUB©, DENTAL SURGEON. (Who may also be found at 82, Bras Basah Road). Newly opened for the convenience of Patients. Treatment and workmanship234 words
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Advertisement79 1912-08-31 12 H Martell's Brandy. ■M I I In England more Martell's Three J|r Star Brandy is sold than any I Kjj I In London more than three times the quantity of Martell's is sold than any other Brand of OBTAINABLE FROM ALL DEALERS. I 111 Sole Agents for Straits Settlements, F.M.S.79 words
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