Japan’s Armament Drive Seen From Continental Frontier Fears
Professor Macmillan Brown argues Japan’s peacetime poverty drives a continental gaze. He warns Russia and Manchuria spur a massive, urgent buildup to protect Korea and Manchuria, risking national life and long-term vigilance.
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Japan
Corean
Wheela
China
Usula
Corea
Russia
Mansharia
Alace-Lorraine
Javan
Vladivosok
Manchuria
Mongolia
Siberia
Macmillan Brown
Frootoids Claim Quick Relief For Headache Digestive Ailments
The advertisement touts Frootoids as superior to ordinary aperients for headache indigestion constipation and biliousness. It claims rapid relief through cleansing of blood tissues and organs and warns against daily digestion cures. It notes a 72 dose bottle priced at 1s 6d and directs purchase through chemists or via proprietor W G Hearne Geelong Victoria.
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W. G. Hearne
Geelong
Victoria
French system of gardening costs and profits
A Gardeners' Chronicle note estimates capital needs for a French system garden acre at 874 pounds 10 shillings excluding rent and water. Breakdown covers lights frames cloches mats tools manure and wages with potential net profit of 60 to 70 pounds per year in a walled enclosed pit setup.
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Gardeners’ Chronicle
About &S
Ous
Tax on light and German debt alarms readers
The Manchester Guardian reports Germany’s debt at £242,500,000 and warns of rising taxes on tobacco alcohol electricity and gas. It notes the plan to tax private consumption of light may hit various industries unevenly, affecting Southern German gas and electrical power users and the small manufacturer sector.
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Manchester Guardian
Germany
Ingland
Intil
Pitt
South Germany
Labour and Religion in Sydney Advocates Eight Hour Day
The Rev W J Carr Smith linked Labour and Religion in a Sydney talk urging an eight hour day as a social boon. He faulted clergy for public distrust but argued the change should apply to nurses policemen tramway workers and even all workers with penalties for noncompliance. He criticized idle elites in fashionable hotels and warned of imprisonment to enforce the principle.
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Sydney
Labour and Religion
W. J. Carr Smith
Labour Movement
Eight Hour Movement
Church
Labour
Treaven
Parsons
Printing Revolution Machine From Vienna Invented
A Viennese journalist introduces a new printing device like a typewriter that creates stereotyping matrices. It can produce 70 to 80 words a minute, allows rapid letter changes, and may cut printing costs by half. The machine uses steel type wheels, requires little space, and can ink news quickly after press.
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Viena
Daily Chronicle
Rheumatism cure claim for Rhaeumo and Rhevumo remedies
An advertisement asserts rheumatism gout and sciatica stem from uric acid in the blood and pledges permanent relief by a remedy that removes the cause. It promotes Rhaeumo and Rhevumo as unfailingly effective and lists prices of 2s 6d and 4s 6d per bottle obtainable from chemists and stores.
Sutton's Magnum Bonum Bweda records weight milestone
A fragment notes Sutton's Magnum Bonum Bweda achieving a record weight and high feeding value, mentioning National Mortgage in passing. The readable text is sparse but centers on weight and quality benchmarks.
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Sutton
Hinlde
Unhap pily married banquets and oddities abroad
The note describes a St Etienne banquet for the unhappily married or divorced, a Great Northern Railway toy railway display for traveling children, veterinary checks for horses entering New Zealand, Lloyds insurance curiosities, Taft election risk at Lloyds, and Austrian royal spending contrasted with urban poverty, ending with a critique of the world’s pretended Christianity.
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Great Northern Railway Company
England
Commonwealth
Department of Agriculture
New Zealand
Lloyd's
Lloyd’s
Taft
United States
Calendar dates fragment for 1908 1909
A sequence of dated entries in 1908 and 1909 listing Thursdays and Wednesdays with specific day numbers and months, including November 1908 December 1908 January 1909 February 1909 and related weekday mentions. The text appears as a fragmented schedule or reference list with imperfect ordinal suffixes.
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Shipping Company
Royal Mail Steamers
London
Monte Video
Teneriffe
Plymouth
Stegner
Paparoat
Wongani
Purakina
Paponal
Dee
Vriedlander. Bros., Ltd
Versat
Pons
Tate
Ellington
Walhunton
Stec
Wellington
W Ellington
Towinecrew
tAlso Calle
Rio de Janiero
Nicoll Bros
WEW- Zealand Insurance Company, Ltd
Islington
Yeas Infante
Roginson
Ro Iescu
Eoenes Eet Boney Baker
Undertakers
Zealandia
Gooking Ranges
Barningham & Co., Ltd
Dunedi
Ceylon
Agenta
Manchester, Bros
Ballantynes
the Drapers
Christchurch
Hereford Rd Street
Chu
Oxford
Frey Ho
E Alloon
Sterling
Abermain Collarby Co., Lid
SYDN
Thos. Brown
Méa
Hereford Street
Newman's Livery Stables
Somerset Hotel
Ashburton
J. Newman
Mitchell and Turner
Robinson
Kaye and Carter
Colman
AG Li É Onan
General Rouse
Tancred Street
Uuildues Society
NWB
Beath & Co
Utd
the Mail Order House
Turkey
Burnett Street
Armada
Mass Cheater Bros
N.S Branch
Tilice
Hume’s
Willis Street
Wollingtor
Jounin
Ayer
Befe G Ayor
Gow Lowell, Mace
KK. Ratcliffe
Persia
India
St. Etienne
Pigetors
Weel
Buoc Bros.,.ltd
Tinwald
Timaru
Brown and Son's
Addington
Mill and CO
Friedlander Brc8
Invercargill
Ward and CO
Fale Dlande
Auctigneers
G. T. Russell & CO
F. R. Hyde and CO
Russell
City of London Guild
Netwest
Rie Cd A
PMR x Zeeen
Iguality Shargre
Asmburtan
Lyttelton
Eisey
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