Daniel Carkner🦆Aug 5, 2023

Strange blurb I came across when keyword searching for something else in CRL collection:

"Jewish Woman.

Last night at around 10 a Jewish woman was drinking Arak in Tjapkouwking. After becoming drunk she started singing a melodious song that captivated the crowd.

Later the woman wanted to go home but didn't know the way. With the help of someone who knew, she was led home.

Why the woman was like that, no one knows."

May 1 1918, Djawa Tengah, #Semarang
#Indonesia #NewspaperHistory #Malay

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Source: https://gpa.eastview.com/crl/sean/?a=d&d=djwa19180501-01.1.6&srpos=20&e=------191-en-25--1--img-txIN-jahoedi----1918-----

This paper Djawa Tengah was a Chinese Indonesian owned paper in #Semarang and in the back pages they (like most newspapers at the time) would often print weird little blurbs about things that had gone on in the market. Dog bites man, Naive traveler robbed, that kind of thing. Curious what song she was singing😲​As for there being a random Jewish woman drinking there, of course at that time Java had many Europeans of all backgrounds

#NewspaperHistory #Malay

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