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WAR DEPARTMENT CONTRACTS:
STRETCHER BEDS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
UNLUCKY WOMAN.
THE SEQUENCE OF SEVEN MARRUAGES:-
TWO MURDER CHARGES.
MODERN WIZARDRY,
MARVELS OF THE NEW YEAR..
KING'S SON.
FIGHTEEN YEARS IN A DUNGEON.
CENTURY-OLD MYSTERY.
| ADVANCES IN SCIENCE AND } HEALED TENDERS will be
received at the Office, of Mrs, Georgia Brown, of Girard, The year 1927 has probabilities A mystery, 100 years old, is be- D.A.D.O.S., SOUTH CHINA COM. Kansas, le awaiting in gaol her galore which were bare possi-the fact established that a youth eved to have been cleared up and MAND Ordnance Office. Queen's trial for the murder of James Road East, until 12 noon, 20th Gilbert Brown, hor seventh husbilities in 1926, (writes Profes-who was murdered after spending February, 1927 for "the supply of band.
sor A. M. Low, in the "Sunday his first 18 years in an underground 0,500 Stretcher Beds, to be deliver- In a quarter of a century sha News"). We read quite easu-throne. I
prison, was the rightful hor to a Fed before 15th March, 1927.
haa walked up the aisle to the altar ally that His Majesty the Tender Forms, and Specißention seven times, with six men, in can be obtained, and sample seen, sequence of marriages which began King will telephone President found abandoned in a public aquare on on application to the ORDNANCE with the violent death of her first Coolidge in a week or so and that in Nuremberg. He said he hadi The Peak. A modern conveni-OFFICER at above "address, be-husband when she was. young it will be possible to talk to pri-been kept in an underground prison ences. Apply Box 475, o "China tween the hours of 9 am, and 12 bride of twenty-sik, and ended with vate subscribers across the At-all his life, but where the prison Mall"
noon daily, Sundays excepted. the violent death of her seventh lantic; and beyond the reminder was, or why he had been kept there,
husband.
that we must have our wireless he could not say. accumulators" changed up it. pro- bably causes no surprise.
TO LET-Furnished! House
TO LET-On the Peak for "B months from 1st May, to 31st Octo- bera furnished House, containing -Dining and Drawing rooms. 4 Bedrooms, 3 Isathrooms with modern sanitation,& Drying rooms,
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THE "ANNUAL DINNER of the Tocity will take place at the Hotel Savoy on TURSDAY, March 1st, 1927, ut 3.45 p.m. Tickets $5.00 euch. Members are invited to at- tend and ring guests and are re. quested to inform the undersigned as soon as possible of the number, and addresses of their guest and to forward at the same time the cost of the tickets
C. S. HUGH-JONES,
Hop. Secretary 9. Queen's Road Central Hong Kong, 11th Feb., 1927.
names
"The Hong Kong Derby will be drawn in the Hung King Club Stand at the Race Course on SATURDAY, 26th Februar, 1927
By Order, Order. C. B. BROWN,
at 3. p.m..
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Secretary, Hong Kong, 21st Feb., 1927
RACE MEETING 1927
28th February, 1st, 2nd & 5th March.
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[EMBERS' Badges of Admission are now ready and may be obtained by those Members, who have not already received them, from Mesars. Linstead & Davis, Alexandra Bulldings...
Members are reminded that these Badges will also admit them to all the Extra Race Meetings of this
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Yet, how long ago was. it that.
In 1828 a youth of eighteen was
He believed his name was Caspari Hauger, but knew nothing about hia||" origin.
So accustomed wna he to crusts
Wedding and Tragedy. She was Georgia Bernard, of Weir City, Kansas, when she met and married William Altember, of a journey from London to New of black brand that he became ill Ashton, Arkansas.
York was a daring adventure?when he ate anything else, and his Hardly had the rice and old shoes How long ago was it that a mes-eyes were so used to the darkness been swept from the sidewalk than Altember had an argument with sage could only be sent from Lon- that he was tortured by the light Georgia's brother, and two hours don to Edinburgh at the risk of and cried to be taken back to pri
later the young bride was a widow,fe and limb?
The tragic end of Altember didIt is in speed and comfort that not dater Frank Ferguson from science is helping the world, sh courting Mra. Altember, and she it is only because we travel and married him in 1903, at Lamar, think more quickly than the cave Missouri.
man that we have progressed Their marriage lasted for eleven from the days of savagery. years, but in 1914 they were divorc ed.
year. 1919.
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Acquitted of Murder. It was only a year later that she married Fred Merton, who in 1921, following a quarrel with his wife, was found outside the door with a bullet in his head. The woman was. ried for the murder of Morton and acquitted:
months.
son.
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Message In Bottle.
Assassination Mystery. Four years later, Caspar › was assassinated by unknown persons, and the affair gradually dropped out of aight.
Lord Stanhope and many other famous men went to Nuremberg and only clue they ever found was a investigated the mystery, but the message in a bottle that had been picked up by Lorraine fsherman In the year ahead of us the in the Rhine twelve years before. Then Mrs. Ferguson married two great faults of wireless, ab- The message was written in. Latin: "I am captive in a prison 0. G. Leonard In two years they sence of selectivity and lack of were divorced, but the following purity, will both be successfully" near Lauffenbourg, on the Rhine. My underground cell is even un- HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB rear Mrs. Leonard for the fourth tackled by means of short wave
known to the one who secured my time became a bride, remarrying and directional transmission. In
throne. her divorced husband. The second may become possible to ring up
I cannot say anything. elae as am strictly watched. marriage to Leonard lusted enly a our homes from a railway train,
S. Hphes Sprancio.” They were divorced in to talk to people in aeroplanes
For twelve years this mesnage fying to India, and to sweep the had remained a puzzle, but when country with alternative bands Caspar Hauser appeared at Nurem of education or amusement in berg it became particularly interest- such a manner that the owner of ing, for it was noticed that. "S. the cheapest receiver can listen,Hanes Sprancio" was the anagram Wireless has proved the great of the words "Sein Sohn Caspar'' est "educational force yet known, this son Caspar), but only 30 years ago the trans- In 1923 Mrs. Morton married mission of a message over the George Francis, and their life to- distance of one mile was regard gether lasted loss than sevened as miraculous, and I have no doubt that when we have freed
Dr. Wagler; a former director of Six months later she married ourselves "from the embryo con-police of Leipzig, has been investi James Gilbert Brown, MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE. On the evening of June 18th,ditions of to-day we shall gain gating this curious case, for many Members have the privilege of 1926, the seventh husband ef basic knowledge that will make years and he now announces that introducing two non-members to Georgia Bernard was killed with a the talking-radio-cinema a cdm- he has found the solution of it.. the Members' Enclosure.
bullet from the same gun which mercial fact, and give us pictures He set out to and who could have A limited number of tickets are caused the death of husband No. 4, and speech from all over the an interest in the disappearance:
world at our very fireside."
fand death of Hauser, and be decid- favailable and may be obtained from Fred Morton, oʻ
Menara Linstead & Devis, Alexan
According to information glean-i Before the end of 1927 weed by deduction that it must have
been a powerful personage shall have broadcasts from our Baden, as Lauffenbourg is at the Colonies at least once a week; it Swiss-Badiah frontier. We shall find, I hope, that im-Grand Duke Charles, who had mar is by no means impossible to-day In 1816 the ruler of Baden was proved selectivity brings us into fried Stephants de Beauharnais, the touch with the Continent as easily adopted daughter of Napoleon. Of as with our own relay stations, this marriage two sons were born, It needs only world-wide broad- one of whom was supposed to have casting to produce a better under died at the age of seventeen days
and the other at thirteen months.. standing of languages.
Right to a Throne? I think that transport, the only hope of the peacemaker, will his uncle Louis succeeded him. vastly improve in both speed and When the faster died in 1830 he was, comfort, and when I look back cucceeded by Grand Luke Leopold, and realise that it is but one cen- who was born of armorganatic mar-1 tury since our ancesfera travelled Friage, and benefited by a succession in in cattle-trucks ag their acme of that ought to have gone to the sons
year will bring us closer to the luxury I am convinced that each of Charles, if they had lived.
In Dr. Wagler's mind there is no WORKS LEVEL.
1926 1927
floating hotel which will soon doubt but that Caspar Hauser was Soldiers and Sailors i uniform Tytam
29'1"B. 16'6′′E. take us across land and sea.
the second son of Grand Duke By Order of the Court of admitted to the Public Enclosure at Tytam Byewash..... 238 B. 25.4"B.
Directors.
Aeroplanes will certainly im- Charles, and that some of his re- 31-per day.
Tytam Intermediate 3B, Level
latives secretly imprisoned him in prove in comfort, their passen order to seize the throne that right- Tytam Tuk
23'1"3. Wong Noi Chung
15'2"B. 10'0", gers will be less deafened by fully belonged to him. SERVANTS' PASSES.
Poktulum
194"B. 21'5"B. noise, while heavy oil engines will He believes that
message Prisses for. Servants will be [Note: B. denotes "Below Overdow":remind them that flying and fire picked up in the bottle was written issued on application to Mesars. A denotes "Above Overflow.")
do not necessarily constitute aby some country priest who had Linstead & Davis, Alexandra
Storage in milllons and decimals
graveyard.
learned the secret through confes Bulidings: 1:
alon and chose this means of saving
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
dra Buildings, on or before Satured by the police, Brown was shot day February 26th, 1927, at a cost while he was asleep. Mrs. Brown of $10 each per "day or $30 for her husband were in bed when she told the coroner's jury that she and the Meeting.
The charge for admission for was awakened by a shot. that the ORDINARY YEARLY Ladies to the Members' Enclosure
A charge of murder in the fret MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS will be $1 per day. Each member degree was made against her.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
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in this Corporation will be held it can obtain upon application to City Hall. Hong Kong, on SATUR- the Secretary, badges for the ad- BAY, the 26th February, 1927, at mission of two, Ladies free of Hats are like pipes, the older Noon, for the purpose of receiving charge. On no pretext will chil they are the better.-Mr. Jeffrey the Report of the Cours of Directora dren be permitted $11 either Farnol. together with Statement of enclosure during the first three Accounts for the year onding 31st days racing. December, 1926.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE, W Tickets of Admission
to the
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Corporation will be CLOSED Public Enelosure, price $3 Iron MONDAY, the 14th February day for all persons including
WATER SUPPLY.
per Laval and Storage of water Reservoira on February 1, 1997:-
to SATURDAY, the 26th February, Ladies, may be purchased from CITY AND BILL DISTRICT WATER 1927 (both days inclusive) during Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Ltd. or at which period no transfer of shures
the Cate. can be registered.
Á. H. BARLOW,
Admission by ticket only...
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Chief Manager.."
Hong Kong, 7th February, 1927.
THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC COMPANY; LIMITED.
Nhat the THIRTY-EIGHTH passes.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
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2013.
of gallons.
1026 1027 131.88 289.44
1.20.
Employers are requested to dis- Tytam tribute them with discrimination, | Tytam Byewash and to endorse their names on the Tytam Intermediate
Tytam Tuk Servants are not permitted in the Wong Nei Chung. Members Enclosure
Pokfalum except for
persons
will be held at the Company's passing through on their duties, but Offers, P. & O. Building, on SATURDAY, 5th March, 1927, atmust remain in their employers'
stands, * 11 am, for the purpose of present-
Any ing the Report of the Directors ||
found loitering together with 2 Statement of about with Servants Passes in Accounts tn 31st December, 1926, their possession will forfeit the and electing Directors and Audi-ame and will be removed from the
enclosure.
By Order,
tors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 21st February to 5th March," 1927, both days inclusive.
By Order, of the Board of Directors'
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.,
LTD. Agents.
Hong Kong, 12th Feb., 1927.
LAMMERT BROS.
Á JUTIONEERS, APPRAISERS
AND SURVEYORS,
Public Auctions.
TH
NHE Undersigned have received Instructions Tram Mr. H.. P. Winslow to sell by Public Auction
on FRIDAY,
"
the 25th February, 1927, commencing et 2.45 pm..
at his Residence, No. 4, Cex Road, Kowloon
Part of His Valuable Furniture
AND
Beautiful Plants in Pots." Catalogues will be issued. On View from Thursday, the 24th February, 1927... Terma-Cash on Delivery," LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 21st Feb., 1927.
C. B. BROWN,
.Secretary. Hong Kong, 15th Feb., 1927.
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Clues Across.
1.
To go quickly.
4. A blow.
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Better Buildings. I believe that in 1927 we shall 40.30 195.90 develop better methods of build valuable old documents to confirm 908.80 916.42 ing. We shall construct our his theory, and he has built up a 10.63 homes so that other people's lease-that he believes would be ae- 21.76 noises do not disturb our increas-cepted in any court of law. 1,017.60 1,403.71ingly sensitive nervous systems, Consumption of water in the City and the-demand of an improving If Britain finances Australia, and Hill District in millions and de-brain will seek for better methods
main of gallons during the month of of heating, so that bodily dis- the development of the Common- January:
1027 comfort may not remind us of wealth is bound to promote Bri- 1020 218.40 220.04 our daily growing physical dis-tish trade.--Mr. S. M. Bruce. Consumption Estimated Population 398,160 408,480 abilities.
par day (gallons)
17.0 17.0 Men, and even women,, in 1927, Intermittent supply in all rider.will dislike all unnecessary effort, been broken down by the pace main districts during January, 1928,
Intermittent supply in all rider main and as our roada must grow.more that kille, and a thyroid treat- districts west of Eastern Street from dangerous while time combine to ment will quite possibly be dis- January 1-20 inclusive."
be more important than life, the covered which will extend the Intermitent supply in all rider main need for travelling overhead span of life still further. districts west of Garden Road from escalators will become greater
It has already been suggested January 8-90 Inclusivo.
Full supply January 31.
KOWLOON WATER WORKS
LEVEL.
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with
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16. Dutch colonist (South
Africa)..
18. A cry.
19. One who does anything. 20. Eject loathingly.
21 H L (actual).
22. Earnestly desires for some.
thing.
24. TG (actual). 25. Not so.
27. Denotes surprise (inter):) 28. lat por: sing: of verb "to
W be."
30. EA (actual),
32. Found in een water (for
seasoning).
34. Very fond of.
in all districts than that of the old-fashioned by one of England's leading. subway. It is essential to save chemists that the young raind can time, for it is the only positive be moulded as to its very charac-126. TE (actual).. fact of which the world has teristics by the biochemist, for we 1998 1927 knowledge.
now know in many cases the Kowloon Gravitation.. 24'8"D. 14,8"B. Shok, Lai Puli Reservoir 13'3"H, 1′8′′B. Motorists will use cars of in- exact cause of certain mental pro cesses in cellular or chemical con- Reception. Reservoir-
Leval creasing luxury Storage In millions and decimalu trols so arranged that no effort is struction which give rise to good
of gallons...
1927 required by the driver himself, or bad moral tendencies in the Kowloon Gravitation::.. 147.08 217:24 Motor-car engines will grow
The great factor of life is the Shek La! Put Reservoir 62.70 85.71 smaller every day, the super-realisation of modern ignorance, Reception Reservoir
23.15 charger may enable cheap fuel to our buildings,
our technical be used, while illuminated kerbs Consumption of water in Kowinon or even properly lit main artierial knowledge and the very food wa in millions and deciraals of gallone dur roads will remove come of the eat, will all provide the greatest amusement for our great-grand- ing the month of January,"
danger,and dazzle from the night children. It is vitally necessary 1926 1927 travelling motorist. Consumption Estimated population 163,520 168,560
Totst....
1026
200.74 346.10
70.17
75.02
Total rainfall to January 21, 1020, 0.22; January 31, 1927, 0.31.
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very young.
that we should all recognise this fact go that we may endeavour to
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41 H8 T (actual). 48. PHE (actual).
44. To stain or colour something. 46. A simpleton.
47. A period at school. 49. Like this.
50. 'A vessel for heating water. 61. Respectful title for a man.
32. To perform on the stage...
Fuss.
54.
55. RR (actual),
67.To prepare food for eating. 50. Aarial or spiritual
61.
Underside of foot..
68. Soldiers and Ballora wear
them..
6. A sharp woody spine.
7. Types of horse vehicles..
8. Eo take anothers child as
one's own..
9. A circuit.
12. Imitation..
15." The man who built an ark.
17. Well done!
22. To scream.
28. To rescue.
25.
A one called fruit,"
26. Small wax candle. 29. Personal pronouq. 31, Liablo.
82. A body nearly spherical. SB. To spread "graus.
35. Alternative.
36. To avoid.
38. One choice.
39. Regular method.
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46. Inability to raise the upper
eyelid.
48. Mother.
60. Editor (abbrev.). 61. To run quickly. 68. Headfulhome. 64. AY (Actual), 56. To split
por day (gallons), j) SEW 154 A country which shows an in-think ahead of the times and to Ends Pain in 3 Short Seconds January 1926 and 1927.
Full Supply in all districts during creasing distaste for capital realise how necessary change is The Government Analyst's reports punishment is surely mentally to the world.
If it occurs to us in 1927 that show that the quality of the water progressing, and I'do not belleve satisfactory.
that a mere increase in surgical education has just begun, that in marvels, such as the transplanta- 2027 we shall appear as did the tion of eyebrows, will represent inhabitants of Bethlehem nearly 'the sum total of the advance the | 2,000 years ago, or that the gentle new year will bring to medicine. sex has not discovered a better We shall probably see a simpli- way of entering into the rhythin fied pituitary treatment available of life than by the Black Bottom to the general public for cases of Charleston, we shall have accom- under-development of almost any plished the first step towards Kind. We shall see electrical guaranteeing prosperity and even treatment bringing healing and happiness for this long awaited,e done it may prove to be the nearest correct solution king w artificial sleep to those who have kid very scientific. New Year,
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