Mutiny in Singapore 1914 Affects Indian Light Infantry
The article recounts a Singapore mutiny in February 1914 involving the Fifth Indian Infantry and European volunteers. Loyalist forces, including Malays and volunteers, repelled mutineers with heavy casualties and arrests. The Cadmus ship crew and Cadmus men aided defense, while 62 Indian troops and over 400 were captured or killed. Public executions followed.
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Sugapore
Garrion
King's Own
Yorkshire
Fifth Indian Light Infantry
Singapore
France
Straits Settle
Wetts
Orchard Road
Olive Station
Pabir Pandjang
Normaton
Singapore City
Major Maclean
Normanton
Boyce
V. Dyson
Marshall
China Insurance Co
B. Woolcombe
Eastern Extension Telegraph Co
Keppel Harbour
H.M.S. Cadmus
Bungalow
Montcalm
Shropshires
Bangkok
Indian Light Infantry
Germany
Kassim Mansoor
Origins of nursery rhymes and a cricket score in one article
The piece traces the roots of familiar rhymes to myth legends and Tudor history, linking Jack and Jill and Ring a Ring o Roses to Hjuki, the dissolution of monasteries, and figures like Henry VII and Elizabeth. It also notes Australia’s victory over Orange Free State by an innings and 146 runs, with McCabe 112 and O'Brien 109.
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Jack
Jill
Hjuki
Bill
Jack Horner
Ohn Hornen
Gladstonbury Abbey
Henry VII
John
Mells Abbey
Judea
Moses
Aaron
Babylon
Alexander the Great
Rame
Catherine of Arragon
Anne Boleyn
Cardinal Wolseley
Orange Free State
Australia
McCabe
O'Brien
Rockeries and perennials for attractive garden use
The article advises on creating natural rockeries using upright and cascading plants rather than annuals. It lists suitable perennials such as Acanthus Mollis, Scabiosa Columbiana, Nemophila insignis, and Schizanthus wisetonensis, with practical tips on sowing, spacing, and soil conditions for a natural look. It emphasizes contrast in foliage and color and notes care for early winter bloom and soil texture.
Wool Sales Report From Australian Mercantile Wool Clip Catalogue
The Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company Limited lists a sale catalogue of 3 678 bales from diverse districts including southern areas central eastern north western slopes and New England. Most clips are fine medium wool with free vegetable matter, though some lots show variable staple length and quality while overall wool is soft and well grown.
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Australian Mercantile Landl and Finance Company Limited
Wales
New England
Winter Flower Seeds Offer From 107 Year Firm
The Gay Garden Set offers 12 packets of flower seeds to sow now for winter blooms. Pack includes Soapdragons Stock Lupins Pansies Anemones Sweet Peas Delphiniums Primulas Ranunculus Carnation Clarkia and Larkspurs. Priced 2/6 with post free guarantee.
Film guessing contest offers five pound prize in Woman
The Woman feature spotlights a £5 prize competition where readers identify youthful photos of stars. Also shown are a Vienna actress profile, rotogravure of Charles Farrell arriving in Australia, and service pages with wedding decor and a knitted jumper. The free novel is The Dark Sector.
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Margaret MacPherson
Vienna
Charles Farrell
Australia
Daily Dose Kruschen Claims Long-Running Rheumatism Relief
An elderly woman from Enid credits Kruschen for twenty years of relief from rheumatic pain. The ad explains rheumatism as intestinal stasis with uric acid crystals and touts Kruschen as dissolving and dulling those crystals. It notes worldwide sales and a price of 2 shillings per bottle at chemists and stores.
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Enid
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Tad
Mary
Sver
Tillock & Co. Ltd
Kene
Liverpool Streets
Sydney
Jens Beer
THE
Australian Mercantile Land Finance.co. Ltd
Bligh Street
Country Producers Selling Co., Ltd
Bridge St
Bydney
Flemington
Commonwealth
Terest
PortSon
Travel Service
Commonwealth Sovines Bank of Fustratia
Eastern Telegraph Company
Martial Anv
Gery've
Cadm 21
Rheant
Paterson
Manly
Nsw
Stoddart & Hayward, Ltd
Singapore Island
Joan V. Rees
Queen Elizabeth
Charles
Catherine de Medici
England
Ben Lomond
C.D. Taedge, and Co
Willow Tron
A.C. Martin
Aaa
Taverell
Wardlaw
Warialda
Koloona
Emma Taytor
West Mare 1744
Colt
Bridge Street
Wool Sales
BLO
Shepherd & Bon Ltd
Kruschen
Sydneys
Morell
2. A. Head
A. D. Veness
Westom Fou
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