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SATURDAY. - SEPTEMBER 20, 1924
YEE SANG FAT CO.
LAGER-VEL
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BREWED BY
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TOKYO
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Specially Brewed for Export
Sole Agents--
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HONGKONG,
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before
we have
sold out.
LADIES' HATS
of the ĮLatest
PARISIAN FASHION
for the
AUTUMN SEASON
Just to hand.
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"TAI LEE CHAN,"
ESTD. 1884
METAL GOODS and HARDWARE.
Tal. No. 1993,
119 Jervois Btrost.
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They Satisly.
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PRICES ARE SLASHED. TO BEDROCK. EVERY LINE TO BE CLEARED AT FROM 30" TO 50'' OFF. IF YOU NEED SHIRTS. HATS UNDERWEAR, HOSE ETC. HERE'S YOUR CHANCE.
COME AND BUY
Never have such Bargains been offered before,
HERE ARE A FEW BARGAINS
GENT'S FURNISHING AND HOUSEHOLD
GOODS.
4.50 Straw Hats
! $ 3.50 Straw Hats
7.00 Pelt Hats
50 nts. Mer, Lisle Hose Now at 35 cts. | $10.00 Felt Hats
150 Silk Hexc
# 1.75 Silk Hose
$20.00 Over Costs
$25.00
$30.00
带货
90 cts, $12,50 Felt llats
Now at $ 2.50
"I
$ 2.00
., $ 4.00
$ 1.25 $23.00 White Woollen Blanket $12.60 $9.75 $15,μÐ
"
.. $ 6.00 $7.00
.. $10.50
$15.00 $5.00
$15.00 Bain Coats
$17.50 $45.99 Traveling Blankets
" 6 3.15
.. $14.00
$9.755.00 Bed Spreads
$15.00 $ 6.00 Bed Spreads
».5 2.80
$20.00 | § 1.50 Bath Towels
$ 3.80
. $1.00
€ 2.00
$25.00
$35,00
1.50 All Shirts
$ 5,00 Woo!
++
3.50 While dress Shirts...
$ 200 Colouried
19
1.00 Kastled underwat
# 1.50
$ 2.00
+1
6 1.50 A. F. C.
6. 1,50 A. B. €.
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$3.50 B.V.0. Upion Suits ..
3.00 8 2.00 Bath Towels
☎ 2.50 ¦ » 3,00. Bath Towels
$1.95 $1.25 Woolies Hose 95 cta. 175 Woollco Hose
5Vcts, 50 cts. Linen Collars
75 cts.
Soft Collars
$ 1.0J $ 1.25 President Suspenders $2.00 President Suspenders 90 ots. $1.50 Slik Neck Ties -$1.25 $ 2.00 Silk Neck Tien
$ 2.50 6.00 Emb. Kimmonas
..1.25
.70ctB.
20 cts,
22
.. 50 cts.
., 75 cts.
" & 1.00
»
1.25
$ 3,50
HAVE YOUR SUITS MADE TO ORDER NOW, ALL WOOL' SUITING & COATING 30% OFF.
THE WOOLLEN
Really hard to tell
you just how simple, quick and delightful it in to use LUA-29 that vatiz sult ammer get- mente. hours diessen, sill-underwest, can be washed, again and again and look alwayı an amit as when new, For the buy mother of familymaloe the school teacher, the brainers girl, or any for that matter, the fine. creamy, abundant, instant
LUX
father is a wonder majkerinconsing polled guiments,
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and colors
NEW COMET.
What Astronomers Expect.
ja profusu mixing of this gas, vury { farobably unbreathable with our pir. Such a mixture could not be merely LE local mixing. The winds would quickly carry the The astronomical hunters of poisonous gas all around the the sky are aftor big game. They world. People at the antipodes are looking for the arrival of a of the place where the comet monster comet. Not one of the truck would within forty-eight "hairy stars" as the anciants hours at the utmost begin to thereafter they called them, that journey around choke. Soon
the sun in vast elliptical orbits, would find themselves suffocating as if exposed to deadly fumes: returning to our neighbourhood.
at regular intervals, but a visitor and presently all of them would from the outor void of space.
be dead. Not a human creature
Just about once in every ton or other animal, would be left | alivo on the earth. They would all years, says an English paper, have perished from asphyxiation. such a stranger comot of large size makes its appearance in the
The notion that a comet is not a very substantial body has been heavens. The next one is ap proximatoly due, and the comat altogether abondoned. Its tail is hunters are watching for gas eo rarefied as to, be - harm- loss if the earth wore to pass Some astronomers specialiso in hunting for comqts. They use for through it. As a matter of fact. the purpose a poculiar, kind of in 1910 the earth did actually telescope of low power but wido pass through the tail of Halley's field of vlow.
comot and nobody noticed it. Bat the nucleus of the hoal is almost Fundoubtedly a warm of solid
meteoric_stones and iron,-and- The head of a comet is gas-lil, may weigh billions of tons. It consists of a relatively solid "nuolous" which looks like a ator question, what would happen if a Leaving the poison gas out of -In some casos thousands of big comet struck the earth asks in diameter, surround the writer? The consequences od by an Immense envelope would certainly be catastrophio. of burning gáo, The quantity For be it realised, the comot big would be travelling at a spoed of
millos
GAS-LIT,
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of comet may., not improbably be 50 miles or more per second, and greater than the earth's entire its Impact would be correspond- atmosphere.. Ono own Imagino Ingly torrido. Try to imagine the then what might be the result of smash it would make
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