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New Nation / Article, Illustration22 May 1977 - I A YEAR ago Gordon Roddick sot out to repeat the epic horse- back journey of AF. Tschiffely from Buenos Aires to Washington in 1925. The first part of the journey went well It Included three months crossing one of the hoc-testGordon Roddick - GEMINI - 1,834 words -
Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle / Article14 December 1938 - Chancellor’s Arms-borrowing Statement Welcomed (From Our Own Correspondent) London, December 2. A MUCH needed tonic was administered to London stock sl and share markets this week by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon, when he announced in the House of Commons1,854 words -
Project Eyeball / Article, Illustration24 November 2000 - Tired of techno and trance churned out of a DJ console? Then go where bands play live. RONALD RAJAN (ronrajan@sph.com.sg) tells you where. IKE a wrestler, DJ L Culture has come up from behind and executed a headlock on Singapore nightlife. Just look at the mass of writhingPictures: Desmond Wee - 1,864 words -
The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) / Article20 June 1913 - After due reflection the seven Chinese druggists prosecuted by the Monopolies Department for selling cough-pills containing an infinitesimal quantity of opium and convicted by the Second Magistrate under the Chindu Ordinance haw decided not to appeal again.-t the conviction. Doubtless tuey have be<-n well-advised not to1,881 words -
The Straits Times / Miscellaneous11 August 2007 - Life! Events m m psirorm o9r9S9t© s I bbjj ii-u-ii rr-inr-in/->+iKift including Chan Mali Chan and Home. Under the baton BBBBBtBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBI Channel 5, 10pm I -t***" ~**n V-3Hal,-*r' 1 of conductor Lim Yau. Sponsored by Singapore Press Holdings. Vivo City, Amphitheatre, Harbour Front Walk, Nearest MRT ™Homsf™ t 'To(/ay;R3opm 'Frße'WsS3,872 words -
The Straits Times / Article4 June 1947 - WORSE THAN HIROSHIMA IN THE SUNDA STRAITS They heard it m Singapore.... During the evening service m St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, on Sunday, Aug. 27, 1883, a loud explosion was heard, which the congregation attibuted to blasting at Tanjong Pagar, where blasting had been going <n for some days. Later2,008 words -
The Straits Times / Article13 February 1938 - The Shikari's Gun Misfired Jungle Adventure Hunting Elephants In Ma lay a By George Wolfe TT is hard to realise that the elephant, that great clumsy looking animal which you see in the Zoos of the world, ambling along with its load of children, old and young, swaying from side1,977 words -
The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (Weekly) / Article6 August 1924 - MKMBERS ADOPT $55,000 SCHEME. Aftfr barely more than half an hour's -.n a largely attended meeting of r> tht Singapore Golf Club which I^U at the Race Course yesterday —after abandoning the scheme inJ the expenditure of $85,000, adopted irt f* ne erection of a one-storey lub1,947 words -
The Straits Times / Article22 March 1902 - Here is a tale they tell about the Legislative Council, that may or may not be exactly as I record it. Personally I believe it to be true but at, any rate. >u>n c wr.» etc It was at the close of a discussion on the Klectric1,980 words -
The Straits Times / Article, Illustration3 March 1934 - O'Casey V. Beckles, Balaam's Ass "—Two Splendid Films— Autumn Crocus" With Fay Compton And Ivor Novello— And "Catherine The Great" With Bergner The Magnificent —Look Out For Garbo. rrrom Our Own Correspondent). Stkaits Tims Omci, Fleet Street, Feb. 14. /~|NE of the most1,978 words -
The Straits Times / Article28 November 1980 - RATF 1 2.0 CLASS 4 DIV 5— 1.200 M i\/%V/Ei i ($14,000 $9300 to winn*r) 1 o*«*4* OatdWmgi WiagiSamsun 57 iu2 same i4am r Nbm 1 2 *t««8* Tlianlin iLTHißodsrnMi lUut Fm 15 I *t|MamgFaatl' Happy Star i J«a«arss(dd -2i4a« Iw 12 4 *««1 German Mare a i1,988 words -
Malaya Tribune / Article18 August 1924 - BY CAR FROM LON DON TO INDIA THE TREK ACROSS ASIA MINOR LAND OF RUINS AND RAZED TOWNS WHY TURKS SACKED SMYRNA GREEK DESTRUCTION DIFFICULT PROGRESS TO KONIA Major I«orbc;,-Leith with h s colleagues, on the jour, ey from London to Quetta by tehx the Second, the car, is not1,989 words -
The Straits Budget / Article5 June 1947 - They heard it in Singapore During the evening service in St. Andrew s Cathedral, Singapore, on Sunday, Aug. 27, 1883, a loud explosion was heard, which the congregation attibuted to blasting at Tanjong Pagar, where blasting had been going o n for some1,966 words -
Straits Echo / Article5 August 1915 - The fact that very little of the verse occasioned by the war is likely to survive it, that a century or so hence only the curious in the by-way* of literature will discover how busily ran our pens to the «ound of the sword on the1,993 words -
The Straits Times Annual / Article, Illustration1 January 1939 - “Consols Of The East No Longer by Ooi Chor Hooi 'THE glamour of waving palms is associated chiefly with the islands of the South Seas in popular fiction, and even those who come to Malaya as tourists usually leave the country without realising that itOoi Chor Hooi - 1,985 words -
The Straits Budget / Article26 March 1902 - Here is a tale they tell about the Legislative Council, that may or may not t>e exactly as I record it. Personally I believe it to be true; but at, any rate, se non e vero etc. It was at the close of a discussion on the1,992 words -
Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle / Article26 August 1922 - ADVENTURES BETWEEN LONDON AND CALCUTTA. The D. H. 9 aeroplane in which Major Blake, Captain Malins and Captain Macmillan flew from Europe to India was flown by the aviators from Dum Dum to the open Maidan and was an object of interest to a considerable crowd of1,975 words -
The Straits Times / Article, Illustration17 October 1930 - Thomas Gann, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I. (B) ■EK)R nearly 2,000 yean the Maya Indian ha« relied upon his plantation to supply him with food, drink, clothes, ami luxuries until its cultivation has become a sort of sac-red ritual, which, even when as in rare Instance)* occunThomas Gann, F.R.G.S., F.R.A. I - 4,567 words -
The Straits Times / Letter15 April 1941 - The Claims Of Stamford Raffles And Farquhar To the Editor of the Straits Times Sir,— I must confess I cannot see the slightest trace of any analogy between the relationship of Alfred Russell Wallace and Charles Darwin, and that of Colonel Farquhar and Sir Stamford Raffles, as2,224 words -
Today (Afternoon Edition) / Article, Illustration19 January 2001 - Machum Kaplan describes his experience in the world's oldest rainforest. Taman Negara (literally 'national park' in Malay) is Malaysia's premier and most accessible national park ana the closest that most tourists will get to the country's dense jungles and rainforests. Located where the states2,108 words
