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The Straits Budget / Article11 September 1925 - All-Black Player for Northern Union. London, August :ji Thf Athletic News leant* that there i. di't'.ut po-.si’ti!ify «,f the Maori All bi.,.C. rull-uiuk, Nwpia. migrating <, a w known lorkslmv Northern I ni (hh H that the financial part of the has been satisfactorily arranewi hut tho Non- Zealand591 words -
Singapore Standard / Article1 December 1951 - MOUNT CHARLESTON, Nevada, Nov. 30 (UP).— Streams of dirty clouds of smoke and debris that boiled up from the ground after a pin point atomic flash signalled the seventh atomic explosion m the current series and indicated that American scientists may have touched off the225 words -
Malaya Tribune / Article19 February 1938 - CANNOT MISS {osi On The First Trial By Air Mail) London, Feb. 2. nj.il »lVS greatest arms discovery D ni tfie century has been lost— that "cannot miss," per- I |)V a corps of scientists at a I thousands of pounds. lurded doors at Portland n'uries, 17216 words -
The Straits Budget / Article19 January 1905 - Two of the Robbers Captured. In connection wnh the darine eang robbery 3t Ayer Saraak, PuloTtkorg, where the towkay uf a gambiei plantation was attacked by a gang of armed Kowchews, we are glad to hear that two of the «wohhe»s have been captured. It was263 words -
Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle / Article26 September 1936 - WCCD-PIGEON MCST HARMFUL The majority of our birds may be regarded as wholly or almost entirely beneficial, and to these the agriculturist wculd be well advised to give all the protection and encouragement he can. This conclusion is drawn in a new book, “Birds.” issued269 words -
Malaya Tribune / Article27 December 1949 - 3,000 Die From Injections Of Deadly Bacteria Reuter. LONDON. Monday ABOUT 3,000 human guinea pigs perished withA in five years in a Japanese prison" in Manchuria, where they were forcibly infected with deadly bacteria, according io a Japanese germ war expert on trial before a SovietReuter. - 330 words -
The Straits Times / Article23 April 1939 - UIS Excellency is likely t« stress the magnificent part Malaya has played in helping the mother country meet her defence needs. Contributions to Imperial defence since the war are computed to be £20,000,000— 5170,000,000. The motion that the Colony should make a special gift of355 words -
The Straits Times / Article18 February 1971 - SAIGON, Wednesday U.S. NAVY jets have hit at anti-aircraft radar installations in the third strike inside North Vietnam in three days. The U.S. military command here said that two Navy jets fired two shrike missiles after hostile action by the radar installations near theUPI - 394 words -
The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) / Article19 September 1922 - POSTAU DEF 'iciENCl ES At the 12 day the Hon. Mr Kemn °T 11 W* a view to the convenient public the delivery of mail.; should be effected at late mormnga. He asked Government would press the X trX m f S CMrying mails T tracts to ensure395 words -
The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (Weekly) / Article4 February 1904 - B< I B N ■[< I FILIPIXO Pa R V NTS I N T i i \baB Province Mr B J. BCcGrew, an educator and crack duck-hunter of Tayabas, •»>. ho is m Manila ath-> guest of bis sister, Miss McGrew, Delmonica }!-.;<*l. tells of ;i v-Mv remarkable435 words -
The Straits Times / Article, Illustration21 March 1997 - TREASURY MOVE: Pensioners can now go to the Accountant-General's Department at its new offices m The Treasury m High Street. The department moved from its old office m the Treasury Building, now renamea Temasek Tower, at Shenton Way to the new building m High Street on March 2.456 words -
The New Paper / Article, Illustration7 October 1996 - From Safti toßedok to Penang |SAR^^^ The story starts one day in September 1994. Wong, then 22 and doing his National Service, was at the Singapore Armed Forces Training Institute (Safti) live firing ground when he stumbled upon an unused hand grenade, with the safety pin still intact,445 words -
The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942) / Article31 October 1930 - Life m a Target Ship. H.M.S. Rodney, Invergordon, Sept. 28. To-day I was permitted to go on board H.M.S. Centurion, the old battleship which serves as a target for many of the Fleet gunnery practices. She presents even a more battered and patched appearance than when I first487 words -
Mid-day Herald / Article27 July 1898 - Mr. W. Cowie, the managing director of the British North Borneo Company, who has just returned to Eugland, states, with reference to the operations against the rebel chief Mat Salleh, that one could not help admiring the pluck he exhibited during the serious engagement with the company's forces.483 words -
The Straits Times / Article29 November 1909 - IMPORTANT LESSONS FROM THE FRENCH TEST. Destructive Force of New Shell. Gunnery practice, with the French battleship lena, for a target, which began abont two months ago, has been concluded. A shot from the battleship Suffren, one of tbe new twelve-inch explosive shells, did such damage to528 words -
The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) / Article22 February 1928 - ie the possessor, and posSingaP° reb of a na me so high a pr °'L to approach the grandiose, uD(iing 7 the compounding of the doeS n th< and pura” serve donate the chief centre of British wd^ g a the Lion City.” ay0 it528 words -
The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (Weekly) / Article10 April 1929 - Apr. 8. Hi> Majesty the King continues to make solid progress and is now 10 much his own man that he can move about as he feels inclined and take full advantage of the extraordinary Spring weather which has succeeded the bitterness of winter. The rheumatism trouble567 words -
Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle / Article12 September 1933 - Well ever 10,000,000 people have enjoyed “fireworks night” at the Crystal Palace, but I consider that, when the 60th or diamond jubilee season opens on Thursday, some of the thousands of spectators will spare a thought for the man who was mainly responsible. It was714 words -
The Straits Budget / Article6 April 1904 - Mb. and Mbs. C. W. 9. Kykncbslsy left for Genoa by the 8.8. Prmum* yesterday. The Legislative Council meets on Friday next at 2 30 pm. instead of on the 15th instant tie had been previously announc'd At the Penan* quizes on Tuesday last, a Chinaman was701 words -
The Straits Times / Article5 September 1948 - MY WILD RIDE TO KA TONG by OLD TIMER who recalls his early days in the Singapore Volunteers just after the turn of the century. Next week -he tells about those hardy souls who used to swim out to the Swimming Club instead of going, as in these days of1,006 words
