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KOWLOON HOTEL
THE PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON, First Class Billiard Room and Saloon Bar. Electric Lift and Telephone to each Floor, Tels, K.608 & K.609. Cable address: KOWLOTEL, Hongkong, Under the 1ersonal Supervision and Management of FRANK L. COOKE
Properotor..
KING
1
EDWARD HOTEL.
CENTRAL LOCATION
ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING,
TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR,
HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS Central 373.
Tolographic Address "VIOTOETA"
THE EUROPE HOTEL.
BINGAPORE.
FOR
COMFORT-FOOD-MUSIC-DANCING
Terms: A la carte or Inclusive.
The after-dinner dances are hold ovary Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday. Telephones in every
room.
The Europe Orchestra plays nightly during Dinnor. and for Tiffin on Saturdayo.
GRILL
Telograms "Europe Singapore".
Telephone 2740.
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NEW YORK LETTER.
(By J. W. Dean for the Telegraph.)
New York, Oct. 29.--About this Įtime of year celebrities become as common about hotel lobbles and theater foyers as taxleabs on Fifth Avenue.
Also, about this time of year, nonentities become celebreties.
apers
of
It is the latter that try to "impress" the visitors to New York. They parade and make every effort to attract atten- tion in the lobbies and finally convince strangers that, they are people of importance.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5. 1925.
maids did the Charleston on the HOOGHLY TRAGEDY. tile floor, and haircuts were in greater demand than shayes, while massages were almost unknown. It is not recorded whether or not the barbers have learned to shave rhythmleally, or whether 's "red- hot" tune results in a slipping
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The fashions of the country are not wet by Broadway netresses or Parisian mannequins. They are established by the buyers from the hinterland who make annual or semi-annual pilgrimages to
Gotham.
The buyers of women's apparel come here from Junction City, Gopher Prairie und Plymouth, The fact is that most celebreties! They first buy clothes for them- try to avoid attracting attention.selves suit, a cloak, a dress or They seek, insofar as is possible, two, a hat, gloves and shoes. to dodge public gaze and to make Then they buy articles of similar themselves as invisible to lion style for their stores. huntera" as possible. They have long since learned that if they are spotted, something very close to a parade is likely to trail them until they disappear.
BOAT SINKS WITH PASSENGERS.
Culoutta, 4th November: (do-¦ [luyod: A torrible tragody occurred! on the Hooghly near Khurdal, yesterday. It is stated about forty personis, mostly ladios and children reshing in and around Seram-
festival and as the bont passed ro, want to witness a Hindu through the oddy it listed dangor- ously due to rough waves and tho backwash of a passing stoainer and the passengers stampeding to the other side caused the boat to sink.
her arms.
Volunteers and river police res cued about 20-persons but the rost wore found to be missing and are Elovon dead bodies have boon believed to have been drowned. Only a few years back manufac-recovered. In the bottom of the boat a body of a woman was found turers of women's wear put their product on sale in New York with her baby tightly clasped in After several months they bun- dled up. the unsold articles and shipped them to ather cities. The effect of this was that girls Walking along Fifth Avenue the and women in smaller cities and other day I happened upon the in the rural districts often were Aftieth celebration of what nee
months behind the styles. And self-conscious was considered the maddest finan-
they were very cial venture in New York's his-about this if they visited New York or a few of the other big cities.
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Wall Street both laughed and wept when a bank dared open in such a scetion just half a century,
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To-day this bank is a veritable monument of red-bricked dignity, What Wall Street didn't think of was the woman shopper, and there are tens of thousands of her on Fifth Avenue. And how handy the bank was when the shopping belt of New York reached more and more toward uptown.
And how handy to the great shops that came to replace the mansions of the fashionable!
The bank sent branches into many sections while Wall Street banks fight to get branches near the spot for which they predicted dire disaster.
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BRITISH FILMS.
GOVERNMENT ACTION
DEMANDED.
London, 10th November: It is! This has changed. The women who walk out of the depots here high time the Government took are just as neatly and fashionably action in the interests of the garbed as any New York woman, British film industry declares and often more so. Manufactur- Lord Newton in a letter emphasiz- ers distribute their product overing that the future of the industry time. does not only concern Britain, the country store at The smallest cross-reads store is but the Empire generally.
the generally as up-to-date in wares
the most it handles as
shopa On Fifth pretentious Avenue.
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Early in the year the Govern- ment were pressed to institute an immediate enquiry, but he points out that although trade conferen- cos have been proceeding for the last six months no definite scheme. has yet been submitted to the Government.
New Yorkers will soon have to change their shirts and collars
The dissension within the in-1 daily, or oftener, just as Pitts- burghers or Cincinnatians do.dustry should not be permitted
his has been a remarkably clean to delay action. city due to the fact that no soft
This delay, especially when coal is burned here, but with accompanied by rumours of the shortage of hard coal threatening wholesale purchase of British A Lexington Avenue barber the ban on bituminous has ben cinemas by American producers. This will banish home cannot.but be most detrimental shop has added a jazz band as a lifted. ture to customers, Upon the sickness among many of the boys to what remains of the British|
industry. epening day of the shop pretty trom the midwest.
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