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CHANGED HER SHOES FIVE TIMES A DAY
Suffered Agony with Rheumatism for 20 Years
Try and picture the life this woman led for twenty years-changing her shoes several times a day in a vain endeavour to attain some relief from the rheumatic pains that were con- alantly torturing her. Then imagine her joy when she found that Krus- chen was driving away the rheuma tism. This is what she writes:
A Look Through The “Telegraph”
50 YEARS AGO
August 6, 1889,
oventa
TIENTSIN FLOOD
(Continued on Pago 9.)
MR. PEPYS IN HONGKONG
27th. This day I had been minded
STOCK MARKET REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange Oflein! Summary issued yesterday says:
This week's markel ke its pre- decessor was notable for a complete lack of interest; but those interested in the local market can console them-
not alone in this respect.
Business Done During the Week Hongkong Bank $1,320, 1,325 Union Ins; $395
Docks $18.30
country are still unable to arrive owing to the flooded highways.
In the Pork is no longer served restaurants, and the situation is quite
to according
the unprecedented Chinese Press.
chici Tungchow, source of supply, is still partly under water and the countryside is flooded, to visit the New Territories upon selves that the Hongkong market is Lord Salisbury, speaking at the Man: Profiteers ship hogs to Tlentsin, business but the weather is so wet of Houst, stated that England will leaving Petping with only about one that some of the roads upon which The I must needs drive my car would, not abandon. Egypt until that country fourth the number necessary. Is able to protect itself. With regari; to foreign politics, the Fremier disputed supply is exhausted before 0 o'clock I doubt not, have proved impassable the contention that England was up each morning. Park prices have risen so I doe noi go. This day too, as it concerned in the
panning in rom 34 cents per cally to $1.20.
n conscript Eastern Europe.
Merchants are hoarding suppiles and cems, 1 doe become profiteering, despite police attempts though somewhat aged, but Lord! It "I have been using Kruschen Salts
Prince Hismarek. In a letter to Herr to keep prices under control.
needed no bill to make mee, and for four years. For twenty years Fabri on the colonial quentiun, ways that, Rain in Hopel has ceased and the many like mee, serve His Majesty
he regrets that it has always been previously I had suffered agony with my feet, sometimes changing my made a party question, and that money danger for tise moment seems to have in any station in the which I may har been votes passed, but the rivers are still high prove useful. But I doubt not there: for colonial purposes shoes five times a day, and frequently reluctantly. The Government, he says, and the countryside south of Pelping are reasons why the matter must be
set out in legal form. tha responsibility of as far as Proting is inundated. sitting without any as the pain was cannot asaune
establishing colonial administrations, The Peiping-Hankow railway is 30 great. Now I can wear the same supported by German ofeinis and mill- pair of shoes all day with comfort. tary, so long an Parliament pel the still unrepaired and the expelled I cannot speak too highly of Krus-court withhold encouragement and fail British missionaries from Shansi and
those who had chen Salts. Only
been in constant poin with their feet
to play commerctal enterprise.
I
June 2 ray
ilonan are held up.
Many areas along the Tientsin tine are under.
At seven of the clock to the Snuke-
doe drinke a glass of wine with them,! pit where I and Knip and others and Felping-forgetting that it is the black-out to
for years can realise what it is to be that everything remalna at a stand-still line is not damaged water, but the come and even by eight cars must
free."(M6.) E.A.
It is the needle-pointed crystals of urle acid, lodging between the joints, which are responsible for the agony of rheumatism. Kruschen Salts dis- solve these torturing crystals and promptly expel them from the system.
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25 YEARS AGO
Auganth, 1916
eleven "Reuter" telegraphing a o'clock in the evening, mys that a state of war exista between Englands and Germany.
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Govt, 4% Loan 104
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have their lights dimmed. So when doe seek to take a motor hackney and I must needs goe by Tramme home they will not go to the Peake
and rickshaw, There are pa lights the scope of the said Convention, and upon the road but wee, come safe are liable on adjudication by the Prize cough to my house, and after clove
the shutters and very early to bed. Cuurt to condemnation a prize. which, A merchant ship
28th.-Reading this day in the receipt of such a pass, dues not follow: the eburse Indented therein will be newes sheetes i doc find very Inblu to capture.
tidings of the bomb outrages by the Irish Republican Army criminals summer doth spoyle my bookes for And there is much talk of new laws all I can duc. To the Peake Clubbe but Lord! what tools our legislators for a booke and so home to my August 5, 1920.
For all men muncheon und after sceling how I The resignation of Mr. T. V. Soong, bec, or else old women.
in oneilly know that a sound flogging beyond may best store my pots, for I have iate of war exists from eleven host the Minister of Finance,
the term of their imprisonment would so many it is a hard matter and i de ronszived.
memorialised check the matter at once as it did most earnestly pray there will be no Yesterday, Mr. Soong
saying that the Garrotters in late Victorian Lines. typhoons. Seeing that I have these
"Reuter" reports Germany's amary refeetion of the request to respect the Britanks neutrality of Belgium. The Ambarande in Her has received his passport. His Majesty has declare thut:
night,
10 YEARS AGO
A manage from Tsingtau reports thuff the National Government the German Squadron is In part, and the present Disbandment Conference But in there evil days it seems mir Inst few days been bitten by mus- that the N. steamer Prinz Eliel discussions have dealt, with huge sums Government would see honest folk kecters, which I call not to mind fur
far disbakoral and for, Freindrich in being fitted out with light of money
future military expense, which it would blown to bits than lash the bodies of some three years before, I doe sweep Kun.
these foule cowards who doe take out all the gutters myselfe and put i
care of their] down Jeyes" "fluid. And so I hope precise The telegrams which passed between be his tank to raine.
He therefore kunsmad a conference e King George and the Czar are ROW
who reached the awn skins, This evening with my, all shall bee well but Lord! I am published. They show that Hing George of nesicul experte.
that while the Children in their car to Bucille where all of a sweat and doe enjoy my expressed the opinion that some mis unnimous conclusion
MIZZA can be raised, there
Reading again and understanding, had produced a deadlock required
worthy rout, and even though the dined quietly and so to bed. rain falls I doe take much pleasure
most
and that he suggested the reopening of must be an assurance hereafter of air. u. Tony Sen gives a very note- batis mightily.
repled fully adequate Budget system.
The conversations, The Caur
that I would gladly have recupted the propemula hud not Germany declared,
T
Prince Ruland Bonnperate has hurried!
to Franco and has
uffered
10 perse
is published to
Order in Council for the Granting of Bays of Grace.
5 YEARS AGO
August 6, 1934.
Anu
A
in the house and grounds which are 31st. Very busy in the oflice all most excellently laid out. But most day and did write my mayle of all I did admire the swimming dull day. Mr. Lloyd George has come out to-day pool with its cluster of electrick
1st August-Reading in the newes- The Suctalist der Vehler has joined as a prophet of percs.
"A willing to guarantee," he says thts, where many doe swim. Talk-i the Belgian Ministry.
Crowds wathed in presalen through in an Interview published in today's cd with many, and especially some sheetes all seems very uncertain bui Las West End last night, singing the issue of the Petit Journal, "that the nices of mine who are very merry doe feel that the denunciation o National Anthem, Bule Britannis and tations of Europe have no seed to fear ves though wee hee most inen of the treaty by Amerique hath cased Home with my matters somewhat and u saner view middle age there. the Marseillaise and waving Bags. The another major war for ten years."
In the recently-published book, "Wil
may prevail. The Pearl River King, Queen and Prince of Wales came
11. H. Knicker Children and 20 to bed.
closed for space, it seems, and to out or to the balcony at Buckingbum War Come to Europa?"
hocker gives the following
29th-Up very betimes and to my Pulace and acknowledged the ovation,
my mind it were well that all ports which he received from heading states.
office where I inust sign the pay in Great Britain were closed to The following-Hangkang-Government during Laur of Europe:
—Provision—Masaryk of Czecho- titlets and order my papers.
betimes Guzrite Extrugrafianry,
the weather 2nd-Up Slovakin: "There will be no war be this I do very betintes as fam Jupantse shipping for a like period. cause there is no money,"
minded to leave the office early, but, of Czecho-** Foreign Minister Benes
chances of war ass ever the case, at about non being hot and dry and very betimes fils Majesty being mindful. now that
Slovakia: Fifty-ifty
comes a mass of work and I doe be- to my office where are many papers. aatite of war exists betwen this can-
in five years." try and Germany, of the recognition!
Regent Horthy of Hungary: "There lieve that all men doe seck to clear Took my nunchion and i doe And accorded to the practice of granting: "days of grace" to enemy merchant will be no war. Il la tun grent a risk." their tables early upon a Saturday it strange that while I do find lamb King Alexander of Jugoslavia: "Noj and I must needs leave earlier to ships by the Convention relative to the war will start in the Balkaen."
avoid the burden. To the Hostelry is Status of Enemy Merchants Ships at:
King Boris of Bulgar
the generation before one of the clock where I doe
to write to Mr. S. Parlins urging the Outbrook of Hostilities, signed
that experienced
last war is in drink a glasse of wine with Mistress The age on the 18th October, 1907, Incredible so long
Elizabeth and her friend and then, him to consider them as a substitute and being desirous of leaving, so far
awer,"
Chancellor as may be pretlenble, the injury caused;
At seven of Austria: with them to my house where my for sandings. But to preserve them y war to peaceful And suspecting:
The peace of Europe depends on the she-child sets us a nuncheon of might bee an ill trek. commerce, in pleased, by and with the
independence of Austrin."
where I doe expret to find him pack- dvice of His Privy Council, to order,|
Harthun, French Foreign Minister: cold fowl with American Jettuce and the clock to Mr. Caldbeck's house and it is hereby ordered, as follows:- A year ago I wrote that war could not celery--the latter most crisp and ex-
cellent with 2 little Roquefort.ed but hee comes in after ice, in 1. Frain and after the publication of sibly came in 1014. To-day could rested until ten when our guests dorime to rescue mee from Adolph.
event of
nne
this Order no enemy merchant ship shall be allowed to depart, except in ccardance with the provisions of this Order, from any British port or frui any, parte in any Native State In India, or in any of 11is Majesty's Protectorates,
ilis Majesty' or in any State under protection or in Cyprus.
of Fla 2 In the Majes.y's Principal Sreretarles of State being antlefed by information reaching him not later than mid-night on Fridiny, he 7th day of August, 1014, that the treatment accorded to British merchant ships and their eargoes which at tha date of the nutreak of hostilities were in the ports of the enemy or which Kubsequently entered them is not less. favourable than the treatment accorded to earny merchant ships by Articles a to of this Order, he shall notify the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty accordingly, and public, notice thereof shall forthwith be given Articles in the London Gazette, and
3 to of this Order shall thereupan come into full force and affect.
3. Subject to the provisions of thin merchant ships which Order, enemy
(1) At the date of the outbreak of hostilities were in any port in which this Order applies; or (1) Cleared from their last pure before the declaration of war, and, after the outbreak of hostlil- tles, enter a part to which this Order | appiles, with no knowledge of the war: whall be allowed up till midnight (Green- wich Mean Time), on Friday, the 14th for loading or day of August, 1014, unionding their cargoes and fer depart. ing from auch pert:
6. The privilege accorded by Articles to cable de-
3 and are not to exten
hips. ar to nen-going,
alghed to carry oil fuel, or to ahips whose tonnagu exenada 6,000 tons gros, or whose spond to 14 knots or over, regarding which the entries in Lloyd's Hlogister shall be conclusive for the purposes of this Article. Such veseln will remain lable on adjudicallon by the Prite Court to detention during the period of the war, or to requisition, in спис with the necordnce, in either Convention #foreand. The said pri vileges will also not extonil to merchant ships which show by their build that they are intended for conversion into I warships, as much vessels aro outside
the
no longer ezjiress the name opinion."
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Juliun Goombees, Hungary's Pre leave and I, the night being showery, dor reade a book while he orders mier: "Pence for ten years? i did not do get mee to my booke. say, that, but I fervently hope su
early and so to bed.
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hai and after cofnes in company and
Jussolini: Peace for ten years.”
a merry dinner on beef-steaks, which Winston Churchill, in the flouse oft Commons:
30th (Lord's Day)-Lay late, and are so tender I am minded to bent "I dread the day. It is nut Ene distant. it is perhaps only a year then ordered my chamber as is my my cook, and sparkling Burgundy.
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