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· Linotype & Machinery Ltd. Pulsomber Engineering Co.Led T. & W. Smith Ltd (Wire Ropes).? Imperial Light Ltd.
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Manufacturers of "Bee Brand " Biscuits & Candies
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HEAD OFFICE-Nos. 92-100 Queen's Road, Central, Hongkong. FACTORY:-Nos. 111-145 Wanchai Road, Hongkong. BRANCHES, Manila, Singapore, Shanghai & Canton, China.
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WHATEVER IS WORTH DOING IS
· WORTH DOING WELL
Is the motto of our Wanchal Workshops
They are equipped for:-
General Engineering and Electrical Work
Electro silver and nickle Plating
Tinning, lacquering and Bronzing
Repair work of any description
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Price from $425.00
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AND ENJOY THE
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STORY OF A LONELY PILGRIMAGE
All Western America has been stirred by a story so strange and so tragic that to parallel it ona must search in the pages of sense- tional fiction..
After many years, writes the Daily Chronicle Vancouver cor. respondent death has revealed the remarkable secret of an aged English subject, who as a frail but persevering pedlar of razor and penknife sharpeners, trudged over the sunny highways of Cali- fornia, fromtown to town, between San Francisco and Los Angeles..
The people in the quiet towns along the pedlare pilgrimage would look for the annual coming of the "quaint old razor man, with the dapper little moustache and the gentle voice, who never betrayed the story behind the sad and kindly face.
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The long pilgrimage has ended at last in a tragic manner in San Francisco, on the doorstep of the home of Edwin A. Turaer, a toy- maker, and his wife, in Green Street.
At the end of the long. long trail that wound through towns and villages, the pedlar in a weakened condition arrived at the Turner home. H. W. Plum. men a lodger at the house, who knew the razor rendor as Joha Young, said the Turners were away but would be home soon.
The little old pedlar turned, clutched at his heart, and sank down his wanderings at an end, dead on the doorstep of the only friend in his lonely world.
At the coroner's inquest, where all mystery either begins pris solved, the truth came out-John B. Young was a woman. Her real name was Anna O'Connel.
Then her only friends, who had kept her secret for so many years, told the story of “John Young's" life.
THE SECRET REVEALED. Seeted on a wooden bench in his toyshop in Folsom Street, Edwin Turner, the old English toy-maker who had befriended the poor wanderer, told this strange story —
"It is now more than 20 years ago since my wife made the ac- quaintance of a Canadian gentle- woman; named Mrs. Anna O'Connell. Mrs. O'Connell' was living in the Montgomery Block with her only child, Marie, and my wife and she became close friends.
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NOTICE
We have just received fresh stocks of Pepsadent Tooth Paste, a scientific, new departure in dental preparations. Price greatly lowered by high rate of exchange.
Also CUTEX.
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Then came the fire, and earth- quake of 1906, and Mrs. O'Connell and her daughter dropped out of sight.
AT
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for Gifts at this festive Season.
For many years we heard Our store abounds with a large assortment of goods all suitable: i nothing of them, and then we went on a visit to the island of Guernsey, in the English Chan- nel, where I was born. About) five years ago we returned to San Francisco.
"On a a, certain evening my wife was alone at home, when there was a knock on the door. Opening it, she saw a little old man wearing a small moustache. He said to my wife. I am the brother of your old friend, Mrs. Anna O'Connell. Don't I re- semble him?
"My wife said: Yes, the like- ness is striking. Come in.'
"They sat down and had a cup of tea and talked.
I AM MRS. O'CONNELL. "Suddenly the old man got up, came to my wife, put his armas around her, and said: 'Look well at me I am Mrs. O'Connell'
"My wife was too surprised for words, and then the old pedlarex- plained thatshe had adopted man's clothes as the only way to make a living. She told of how her daughter Marie had died, and of how she was alone in the world. I came home later, and both my wife and I promised Mrs. O'Con- nell that we would keep her secret.
"Since that day she has visited
us once a year,
"We were her only friends, and she wished to live in San Fran-
cisco, but found that the climate.
in the south suited her delicate
health better, and therefore lived in Pasadena.
"She told us how she sold razor and knife blade sharpeners, walking from one place to another and getting.lifts from passing motor-care. And now she is dead, and her secret is out.
'She died on our doorstep, and we will see to it that she is de cently buried. We intend to be her friends to the last.".
DEVIL'S DYKE HOT SOLD The historic Devil's Dyke estate, comprising 190 acres, was put up for auction at Brighton but was withdrawn at £4.900. The reserve price was £6,000 The property includes a fully licensed hotel.
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We have just received per parcel post, a special lot of fancy handkerchiefs in fancy boxes,
Fancy Embroidered Hand- kerchiefs, 3 in. Box, Several Designs.
Price 50cls Box. Other Prices 75cls $1.25
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