Weekly Sun, 15 March 1913
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Title Section18 1913-03-15 1 T HE Weekly Sun 126, CROSS STREET, SINGAPORE. NO. 188. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY. MARCH 15. 1913. PRICE 10 CENTS.18 words
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Advertisement373 1913-03-15 1 Solid Br^^s Pictt"-* Rrofel < 0.30 ceats. A bos of v. jj^^^^^^^^ (xas Piiers. ■^KS^' f s illustration. v ncc«> v i^ k well made> S S ize 3^ inch." Xfcp£L^y o>ls cents _^^a^O^^ Prices 0.65 fr $1.15 each. n *35xaB^^^^ Price 0,40 cents each. Price 0.30 cents each. each.373 words
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Advertisement12 1913-03-15 1 The Sexvyt Polishing. Cloth tor polishing everything. Prices 0.35 30 cts. each.12 words
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Article1837 1913-03-15 2 Frederic J. Haskin - Frederic J. Haskin A TANGLED CURRENCY. By Whoever coined the phiase M A Chinese puzzle must have had the Chine&e Cur rencv IJlteill m mind. Tt is the most complicated arid unsatisfactory money system m the world to-day. China will never take iti riehtful place amongChina Press - 1,837 words
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Advertisement450 1913-03-15 2 A PAIR EXCHANOE. Large sums of money are no doubt realized from simple speculation, but the great fortunes are derived from legitimate and honest business where the goods furnished are worth the pfice they bring. Certain famous business men nave accumulated their millions wholly m this way. Prompt and faithful450 words
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Advertisement106 1913-03-15 2 FORD THE CAR FOR THE MULTITUDE. THE CAR WITHOUT A RIVAL IN ITS CLASS. PRICE COMPLETE $1,550. THE FORD IS THE PROVED BEST C*AR \T MODERATE PRICE, ITS SALES BEING THREE TIMES AS GREAT AS ANY OTHER CAR IV THE WORLD- m WEARNE BROS., LTD. LATE C. F. F. WEARNE106 words
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Article681 1913-03-15 3 We take tho following from the VIWI or Thi. Would, dated Feb. 16th, 1913 Story of Immortal Heroism. Had *c lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of even681 words
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Article688 1913-03-15 3 Pr Upon Disaster After Goal Had Been Reached. wh<» the expedition shij va gli<Jc slowly into the har)>oui v, m the south of New Zealand that the vcHsel was the harbingei <f such terrible news. Isut soon the tale of calamity ami heroism had flashed round the688 words
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Article709 1913-03-15 3 How Bodies of Dead Heroes Were Moving Extracts From Scott's Last Diary. In every *eiitenee of the graphic despatch sent from Christchurch by Lieut. Evans, second m command of the expedition, there breathes the spirit of heroism and 'self-sacrifice. The message was sent to the ends709 words
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Article322 1913-03-15 3 Walked out to Meet Fate m Blinding Blizzard. From their records the following information was gleaned The first death was that of Seaman Edgar Evans, petty ofncer,lt N., official No. 160,225. Evans died on Feb. 17 at the foot of the Beardmore Glacier. His death was accelerated322 words
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Article518 1913-03-15 3 Disaster not due to Faulty Organisation. In Captain Scott's Diary Surgeon Atkinson found the following, which is quoted verbatim The causes of this disaster are not due to faulty organisation, but to misfortune m all risks which had to be undertaken. 1. The loss of pony transport518 words
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Article205 1913-03-15 3 Scott's Call Reaches the Hearts of His Countrymen. Then came these last agonising words from Scott's hand We are weak, writing is difficult, but, for my own sake. I do not regret this Journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardship, help one another, and meet*205 words
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Article150 1913-03-15 3 Vain Search for Bod) of Captain Surgeon Atkinson and the party gathered ac records and the effects of the dcu.J men, Bad the burial service over their bodies, nd erected a cairn and cross to their meiory over the inner tent m which they uried them.150 words
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Article983 1913-03-15 3 Lived for Six Months on One Month's Provisions. The search party now turned northward, laving decided to direct their efforts next o the relief of Lieutenant Campbell and lie northern party. On November 25 Sur(eon Atkinson brought his party to Hut r'oint, and there received tho983 words
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Article215 1913-03-15 4 Premier's Solemn Response to Scott's rr The House of Commons wa« never more faithfully an index to feeling m the country than when, amidst tense silence, eloquent of the spirit of sadness brooding over Ibe Assembly, the subject of the AiUrctic di<MMter wus raised by Mr. Austen215 words
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Article234 1913-03-15 4 Admiralty's Recognition of Constancy and Resolution. From the Admiralty the following has been issued It is with profound regret that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have received the following telegram from Commander Evans of the Terra Nora Regret report deaths of Captain Scott and234 words
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Article, Illustration810 1913-03-15 4 Secrecy Enjoined Upon Officers and Crew. Deficiency Which Led to Disaster. Theie are passages m Captain Scott's diary which give rise to painful misgivings, indicating as they do that but for a deficiency m the stores the expedition would have managed to reach One Ton Depot810 words
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Article1718 1913-03-15 4 Scott's Message on Eve of Reaching Diary of Events Ending m Great Disaster. It will help to an appreciation of the difficulties encountered bp the explorers, an to understanding of the successive stages m the quest of the South Pole if their progress be set out m1,718 words
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Article1141 1913-03-15 5 Life Stories of the Departed Heroes. Scott Marked o*t for High Naval Command. Son of a country that boasts of its Hun's share m the roll of heroic adventurers by sea and land, Robert Falcon Scott wag born at Oatlands, Devonport, m 1868, and was a man1,141 words
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Article599 1913-03-15 5 Polar Hero's Gallantry m Boer War. In the memory of Captain Gates the British army has an example that m momenta of trial will ever he to it an inspiration. He came of a family who have been noted for their love of adventure. Originally located near599 words
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Article1468 1913-03-15 5 Coolest Men Capt. Scott had ever Met. Standing over six feet m height, and being finely proportioned, Petty Officer Edgar Evans was the strong man of the expedition. He came of a thorough Gower (South Wales) seaman stock His father, who died a few years ago,1,468 words
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Article241 1913-03-15 5 Risked His Life to S ye Drowning Youth. By the death of Lieut. Bowers another name has been added to the lon* list of famous men who served on the Worcester training ship an died at the post of duty. lioth Lieutenant Bowers and Lieutenant Evans241 words
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Article238 1913-03-15 5 Last Message Before Dash to Pole. Dr. Edward Adrian Wilson was wellknown m Cheltenham, where his father ia the doyen of the local medical profession. Dr. Wilson was born at Cheltenham, aoi educated at the town's well-known college. Art and science were his two great interests,238 words
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Article505 1913-03-15 5 Learns of the Calamity While Going to Rejoin Her Husband. Poignant pathoa attaches to the circumstances under which Mrs. Scott, the widow of the explorer, learned the fate of her hugbaud. In complete ignorance of the disaster, Mrs. Scott was sailing on board the Aorangi, bound from505 words
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Article509 1913-03-15 6 SATURDAY, MARCH 15. In no part of the world more than m the tropics is the necessity for proper modern sanitation more pronounced, and noj where, more than m torrid climates, has the introduction of approved sanitary methods and ideas been followed with such beneficial509 words
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Article214 1913-03-15 6 We notice that the question of public morals, on which we touched two weeks ago, has since been forming a theme for editorials m quite a number of papers m these parts, and we trust that the Press will continue to deal with the matter, unsavoury though214 words
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Article415 1913-03-15 6 Among the many pretty new spring materials voiles and other similar cotton fabrics will be the most popular for their becoming softness particularly so more that draperies are fashionable. They are to be had m many charming colors amongst which soft blues, chamois, creamtan and limegreen are sure to415 words
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Article603 1913-03-15 6 NEW BANDMANN OPERA COMPANY. THE PINK LADY. It has become such an accepted condition that the present day musical comedy should be minus almost the the vestige of a plot, that to find a piece that rejoices m the substance of one, even though the theme be somewhat ancient, is603 words
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Article554 1913-03-15 6 One's tirst impression is of witnes sing a remarkably-cleverly arranged advertisement for the opening BCene of the "Sunshine Girl" goes perilously near being an advertising scluino, but one apparently as essential as any one portion of a Gaiety piece could be considered Essential to the whole production.554 words
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Advertisement115 1913-03-15 6 by jsiii&'rc -^mM t APPOINTMENT H.M. THE KING. contractors to The British Admiralty. The War Office. The India Office.; i MILKMAID MILKj LARGEST SALE IN THE WORLD. THE FACT THAT j Milkmaid Milk THE GOVERNMENT nOSPIi ALS ;iN THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS AND FEDERATED MALAY^STATES PPOVP^ THAT I MX. V-/ jj.^t115 words
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Article318 1913-03-15 7 Last night's staging of Autumn Manoeuvres saw both the best and the most enthusiastic house of the season to date. The play, as may be surmised from its title deals with matters military and with the usual license of musical cornedy deals with them m a rather unorthodox318 words
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Article, Illustration1143 1913-03-15 7 Home truths hurt but they are beneficial. The Suffragette Question. By Annie Romantic. To Beer or not To Beer. By O. N. E. Coin, Just the art of beinjj kind is all the world needs. Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits. The woman a man1,143 words
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229 1913-03-15 7 When the Opera Girls are in Town. There's an exodus from the estates Supplies must be bought, to be sure, Is the tale that each planter relates As he hastens towards Singapore. And if you are easily gulled, You'll believe that is why he's come down, But the purchases made229 words
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Article156 1913-03-15 7 CHINESE LOAN. London, March Bth. The Times, dis mussing the hitch re;gar ling the Chinese loan, says it doe? not douh v that the misunderstanding is adjustable, and urges that the proposed control shall not be allowed to extend to political objects or involve undue medding m incernal administration.156 words
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Page 7 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous469 1913-03-15 7 THE WEEK. The suppers at the Hotel de TEurope, after the Theatre, are being well attended. The output of clean tin ore from the Kinta Association, Ltd., and Kanaboi, Ltd., for February were as follows Kinta: tribute 395 piculs, mine 250 piculs, total 645 piculs. Kanaboi: tribute 137.77 piculs, mine469 words
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Article351 1913-03-15 8 For playing kite m public at Queen Street at 4 p.m., yesterday, Yap Peng Tan a Hokien, was fined $1 by Mr. Talma this morning. Toh Guan Sen a bullock-cart driver, was fined $15 or twenty-one days imprisonment, for working a pair of bullocks suffering from sore fet-locks, sore351 words
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Article260 1913-03-15 8 Two night-soil carters named Yeo Sway and Ng Kiong, were fined $10 or fourteen days each for conveying night-soil not properly covered at 7.15 a.m. m Neil Road this morning. Tay Kee Choon a Straits-born, was charged before Mr. Talma with being drunk and incapable m Malabar Street, Police260 words
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Article515 1913-03-15 8 Lee A Hoon a Hokiea and a rickshaw pulrer were charged before Mr. Talma with disorderly conduct by fighting at Ballestier Road. The rick puller said the Lee engaged his rick and refused to pay the fare. He seized Lee by the collar of his coat and shouted for515 words
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Article388 1913-03-15 8 Kuan Meng Lee was ordered by Mr. Talma to pay a fine of $3, for using criminal force to one Ching Hee Liang at Havelock Road. Nachiapen a Tamil pleaded guilty to being drunk and incapable m Malay Street and Nazin Din, a Bengali, pleades guilty to being drunk388 words
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Advertisement221 1913-03-15 8 WATERBURY'S m Metabolized God Liver Oil Compound jdmk, WITH CREOSOTE AND GUAIACOL OR PLAIN. KH=sii|? I W»terWy'» Does Allay Fermentation— D(jes Aid Digestion— Does Assist Assimilation I SffgxL But Does NOT Disturb the Stomach. I ,^£J^^ >^Ts. A scientific preparation of COD LIVER OIL, 1 I 4%k |ff^^ entirely superseding221 words
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Article1092 1913-03-15 9 Britain s Brilliant Record m the Antarctic. Although the crowirmg success of tho first discovery of the South Pole was denied to this country, to Great Britain belongs the credit of by far the greater part of the exploration that has been done iv the1,092 words
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Article359 1913-03-15 9 Polar Record of over three Centuries. The toll of life that the ice has taken dates back now M6O years, perhaps even longer. Several hundreds of lives have been lost, and though the number is m itself perhaps small, the percentage of those vrho have gone North or359 words
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Advertisement321 1913-03-15 9 The No. 69 T.C. OVERLAND CAR is offered with every confidence as THE BEST VALUE EVER SEEN IN 30 Horse Power, 5 Passenger, touring body with scuttle dash, Centre Control, 110" wheelbase, Timken bearings, Prestolite tank Remy Magneto, Warner Speedometer, Hood, Wind-screen, Head Lights, Side and Tail Lamp, Horn and321 words
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Advertisement58 1913-03-15 9 SLEDGE BRAND MILK IS TflE |VIILII\ TH«T IS WORTH ITS PRICE. t' SLEDGE^ Natural Sterilized Milk 6 SLEDGE" Condensed Unsweetened Milk. SOLE IMPORTERS: J. TRAVER3 SON, Ltd.— SINGAPORE. CHOW Kit Co., Kuala Lumpur. SIME DARLEY CO. LTD., Malacca. 'His Master's Voice' GRAMgRHONE TC A -I v J MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. BEWARE58 words
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Article694 1913-03-15 10 Elbert Hubbard - Elbert Hubbard. By When a business man attains a certain incom**, speculator strikes it rich," a manuf tcturer secures a monopoly, or any impecunious son of eaith is struck bj ligbtaiag and receives a legacy, straightway he moves his household to the Othei Side of Town. And694 words
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Article, Illustration435 1913-03-15 10 He Was-But He Is Not Now Afflicted With Rheumatism. iTouR Case, If Like That Of Mr. Calh Can Be Cured By DR. WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS Once aching m every joint and alnaosi ifraid to put foot to ground througl Rheumatism, once bloodless, appetiteless headachy and weak now well and vigorous,435 words
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Article423 1913-03-15 10 The decision to use the space between f the inner and outer shells of the Olympic for the storage of oil, to be experimentally used as fuel for one of the mighty boilers, is an interesting development m the use of oil as fuel which is so familiar423 words
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Article380 1913-03-15 10 An older man, if he is experienced, thinks faster, clearer, quicker than a younger man. All along, after fifty, for perhaps twenty years, the mind is receiving the stimulus of age. Lately there has been discussion of the question, When is a man at his best?"380 words
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Advertisement48 1913-03-15 10 COUGHING INTO CONSU M PTION Onljf a Co«gh but you stop it while it is ONLY OOtch. FWATERBURY'S METABOLIZED J GODLIVEROIL COMPOUND J IHC1 HC fined! preparation made for combating severe coughs. CURES any cou^h that is only a cough. Very palatable. OF ALL CHEMISTS *&mm&<mimimm>'m**. cm* m48 words
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Advertisement250 1913-03-15 11 SIEMENS WINCHESTER HOUSE, SINGAPORE. TELEGRAMS: SIEMENS. SINGAPORE. TELEPHONE, No. 647. I Siemens WOTAN Lamps. durable ft \2T "y&ffi^^W nigiily economical. Consigners are recommended to ask for WOTAN lamps and insist on getting them. SIEMENS BROTHERS DYNAMD WORKS, LID. Head Office Caxton House, Westminster. WORKS, STAFFORD. LONDON. LARCE DOUBLE SPRING MOTOR250 words
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Advertisement426 1913-03-15 11 "UCTOMALTINE" REGIS TEIEDi STRENGTHENING FATTENING PALATABLE DIGESTIBLE NUTRITIOUS ■uui wrf m j JjHl Hill ijlTi^B P^trvd by Ktw ProetM, Jtt^B mm 0/ th« F.nMl Scotch Btrkf. Min 4H creating Tlmum of stabU TIH L F "«»c»o»« a^KW* erf 4»i lIHI^B llJl^^Cbwwlita, EDINBURoIIIII Lactpmaltine is an elegant and scientific preparation, prepared426 words
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Advertisement446 1913-03-15 11 I KONINKLIJKE 9 AKETVAART MAATSOHAPPIJ. (ROYAL DUTCH PACKET COMPANY.) UVDKR COSTBAOT WITH THE NbTHIRLANDS TSDIA GOVIRMMIJCT. 4qe«s at Singapore The Ships Agency, ltd.. 2-3 Collar Quay. MAIL TABLE-MARCH 14TH TO 21 ST, 1913. I !»e uniermentioned dates are only approxininte. BTKAMBHIP. Krom iwpecttHi. Will be Despatched for:- Sailinf Date. "^"(^Zr446 words
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Advertisement317 1913-03-15 11 TIN IN LONDON. Messrs. Lewis Lazarus and Sons, m their Metal Market Report, dated February 14th saj The East goes on selling with a freedom which was rather unexpected m view of reports which had ieen received m certain quarters telling of interference with supplies through heavy floods, and pointing317 words
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Advertisement10 1913-03-15 12 M 111 J I I S and House of Commons.10 words
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