FLETCHER'S
COUGH LINCTUS -
THE IDEAL REMEDY
FOR-
COUGHS, COLDS, BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, ETC.
75 cents. Per Bottle.
PREPARED ONLY
AT
THE PHARMACY,
FLETCHER & CO., LTD.
2. Queen's Road, Central, Hongkong. ་་་་་བ་གཡིབ་་་།།ར。,
Tel. No. 345
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPE:
SHIPBURDERS.
SHIP REPARER,
BOILER MAKERS.
FORGE MASTERS.
OXY-ACETYLENE AND ELECTRIC WELDERS.
MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERS.
FOOK WENG & CO.
Astor House Buildings. Manufacturer of Swatow Drawn Work & Embroideries, ·· Dealers in all kinds of Silk goods of the "best quality, Manderin Costumes, Antique China and Curies, Etc., Etc.
CHEAP SALE
The opportunity occupies 25 days only.
SATURDAY, JANUARY
O
OF HONGKONG, LIMITED.
TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY
-DRY DOCK
LENGTH 787 FEL. LENGTH OF Books 750 Fr DEPTH ON CENTRE OF
SEL (HW.OST) 34 FT 6 INS
-THREE SLIPWAYS
CAPABLE OF HANDLING SHIPS UP TO 3000 TONS DISPLACEMENT
ELECTRIC CRANE AT SEA WALL CAPABLE OF
LIFTING 100 TONS AT 70 FEET RADIUS
15th. December, 1923
to 8th. January, 1924.
CELL PLAS: "** OYER “AKS, PEXIANT,”
Tel. HOP CHEONG
Ctl. 654
CHEONG 55, Queen's
Road, Central.
COMPLETE HOUSE FURNISHERS
DEALERS IS
SWATOW DRAWN AND LACE WORK
EMBROIDERIES, OLD MANDARIN COATS,
SILE. ETC., ETC..
LARGE CONSIGNMENT JUST
UNPACKED.
INSPECTION CONDIALLY INVITED.
MORISON PIANOS.
Specially built for this Climate,
Cash or easy payments.
TSANG FOOK PIANO CO., Telephone 2127.
94a. Wanchai Road.
I like them-
They Satisfy
and the blend
can't be copied
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
LAGHER, SHIT & SONS, LTBJ) ACENIS.
Chesterfield
LIGGETT & Mrias Tobacco Co., U. 5. A., Manufacturer
1924
YALE!
SPECIAL
BARGAIN
WEEK
AT
WHITEAWAY'S GREAT WINTER SALE
Jan. 28th to Feb. 2nd
In order to thoroughly clear our stock we are
offering this week a lot of-
LADIE'S DRESSES & OVERCOATS HALF PRICE
LADIE'S READY-TO-WEAR HATS HALF PRICE
ODDMENTS IN DRESSING GOWNS JACKETS, BLOUSES ETC. HALF PRICE
LADIE'S BOOTS & SHOES HALF SIZE
Hundreds of other Bargains.
Whiteaway Laidlaw, &Co., Ltd.
HALL'S
DISTEMPER
The KING of Water Paints
It's Sanitary, washable, and high disinfecting qualities make it the ideal wall covering för your home or office.
Handled by all Contractors and Painters...
Write for our Brochure on How to decorate your Homo" to
William C. Jack & Co., Ltd.
Sole Agents HONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA.
A permanent roofing at a price competitive with corrugated iron.
"ITALIT"
The perfected red and grey corrugated
cement -
asbestos
ROOFING
The Inspecting Engineer to the Crown Agents for the Colonies
has conducted teresting and
in-
conclu-
sive series of tests on
.** ITALIT "'
and a copy of his raport, together with fall parti culars of "ITALIT," will be forwarded post free on. request.
-
ITALIT provides the mazi- meam in durability
und sufety at a
minimum cost.
Delivered or fixed in any quantity anywhere. Just ask for a copy of the "ITALIT" Booklet.
STOCK CARRIED BY
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.
HONGKONG & CANTON
SOLE AGENTS --
made
at great depths, owing to excessive fatigue: (3) SALT AND FATIGUE. 'mine ccal
To do this the effects of high his life at home changed from air temperatures; laziness and sleep to one full of Experiments with Miners, underground
must be overcome. Miners work energy: (4) in general felt a Remarkable statements in re-ing io hot dry places drank large changed man. gard to the efficacy of salt as a quantities, of water and perspired This cramp was not confined preventive of fatigue, and how freely. This caused cramp and to miners. but ship stokers and the human body can accom- fatigue and clogged the kidneys, iron workers were also liable to modate itself, without discomfort. so that the excess of water in the it, said Professor oss. The best solution to use was one which to a temperature of 200 degrees body became formidable. (which will cook a steak) were: To prevent water-poisoning a contained 60 per cent. of sodium AL the meeting of the solution of salt in water to balchloride, and 40 per cent of pot- Institution of Mining Engineers.ance the loss of salt by perpira-assium chloride.
Dr. J. S. Haldane. in connec- Professor K. Neville Moss. tion was given. The results were
In one instance ation with sweating, and how the in the course of a paper upon striking.
Some effects. of high tempera-miner," of poor physique drank living body could adapt itself to temperatures by of
during different water tures upon miner-" advocated eight picts
the skin, men- the use of sult in preventing the shift. He had been a frequent evaporation on fatigue. It had been shown, he suffeter from cramp, but after tioned an experiment" in which said, that by these means 20 per taking salt each day for three men was enclosed in a chamber temperature of cent. could be added to the months had no signs of cramp. of dry air at a efficiency of miners working in His "evidence was: (1) Appetite 200 degrees. A steak was also! a heated atmosphere. Progress much improved: (2) felt quite in the chamber and the in British coal mining would fresh after a shift's work, when I watched the steak cooking m the
without himself depend in the future upon the formerly he was 3bliged in cease heat, ability of engineers to work at 12.30 p.m. each day affected.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
Some Task
raan
being
YOU WILL SAVE MONEY if you buy from SHIU YUEN CHEUNG
Everything we offer for sale is made,
in our Canton factory, from the raw material into finished articles.
Old Post Office Building. Q's Road Geatral
Telephone C. 325.
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