Traveler's and Writer's Sourcebook, circa January-February 1911, Number 3

xns names Sgpr

[column one] Ming Fat Chop Ler Soon Hong Seng Fook Siong

[column two] Chong Fee

Canton no vehicles

[lamb?] fat lk Bdhs

[???] on back

Go to offcr & get a license & hav photo tkn

Fortune stks : 2 tms good

Hw sffd bindg feet

Bdhsts wkng [power?]

Marco Polo [came?] [to?] temple

[begin crossed out text] $1000 coffin women man $2200 (1200 lacquer)

[Get?] good day & [good?] dirt for [grave?]

Geomancers $100 a day

tea, gods stks

$1400 cfn : yg man hd just married: Books, tea

[svts?] tea, pipe, [crossed out letter] [S?] [end crossed out letter] 2 other svts

tea : 3 tms a day

4 or 5 pcs [die?], "[???] gd [grain?]"

[right margin text] Candles [frd?] & rel 15 ft long [end crossed out text]

80% reorgsd Gov opposed it

chg [thinking?] [vy?] gd

Japan md grt pgs bcs offcl cls was pgsv here pgs hs bn fcd on offcl class

Parliament will serve useful check on government

I revised code of laws. Referred to officials who objected to it - now a deal better

Chas E. Douglas

Nankou - Pekg Tientsin - called "graveyard of machinery"

thousands of pounds worth of machinery goes to waste

Taotai Shanghai pd [crossed out words] 12000 [???] [end crossed out words] $50000 gold for office [crossed out word] $3 [end crossed out word] $1500 a year Salary