Category: People
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Cremer castle
Landgoed Duin & Kruidberg is a castle in Santpoort , North Holland . Dutch King Willem III bought the Kruidberg Estate in 1682 as a hunting retreat. In 1895, the castle was bought by Jacob Theodore Cremer, the Deli tobacco magnate. He was the administrator of Deli Maatschappij, the largest tobacco company in Deli. Cremer became the minister of…
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Law Ah Yok
Law Ah Yok or Law A Yok is a businessman, contractor who lived in Medan in 1900-1930s. Law Ah Yok is known in Medan as Sukaramai, China town in Medan, or Kampung Law Ah Yok. Little is known about Law Ah Yok. He developed Sukaramai as the residence area for poor Chinese in Medan since…
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The Life of “Piglet” Ya Jiubao
This incident not only happened to Yajiubao alone, but the place where it happened was not only in West Java, North Sumatra or North Sulawesi. This is because since the powerful groups in Indonesia, under the imperialists’ instigation, set off an anti-Chinese and anti-Chinese countercurrent, there has been more than one person like Yajiu being…
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Revenge
The busy work in planting had reached its peak. It is true that the Chinese field coolies had planted their fields and the young tobacco plants were standing in the ground on the last pett branch (field), but the entire planting still required a great deal of care and labor. Those young plants still had to be…
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Ong Lie and Sherry
The tobacco harvest was in. The last bundles, after being dried in the drying barns on the plant ways, were taken to the fermentation shed, where the entire crop of millions of tobacco leaves, after undergoing the fermentation process, was to be sorted by color and length of the leaves. The field coolies, who had planted, cared…
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Lim Ang Kau
It seldom happened that the chief tandil, Lim Ang Kau, spoke of how, as a young man of about twenty, he had been picked up in a drunken stupor at Swatow, brought on board with a load of fellow sufferers, and taken to Deli. Not that he was ashamed that he too had started as…
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A Poh
Kleian, Deli Planter If we follow this road we automatically arrive at the house of A Poh, that is the Chinese head tandil. I’m glad we’re out of the woods for the time being, the worst is over. Here it is, let’s see if he’s home. A Poh! A Poh! Just a hasty shuffle of…
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White Society
De Witte Sociëteit Medan or The White Society , as the name said, is a White Supremacist club established in Medan. The Dutch White Supremacist club ‘Sociëteit de Witte’ was founded in September 1879. A provisional accommodation was built in 1882. A new building was built in 1887 at Esplanade, next to the post office. The Club…
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A Seng and Pieter Klaassen
EMIGRANTS AND OTHER STORIES BY M. H. SZÉKELY-LULOFS “A Seng !!”… “Toewan”… Somewhere, way back from the farthest outbuildings of the assistant’s house, the long-drawn-out reverberation sounded. A minute later, panting and with his bathtub only half on, A Seng ran into the front veranda, then stood waiting and catching his breath in front of…
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