RESTORING the floors in our house, I found underneath fragments of the Glasgow Herald for July 1, 1899.
Your readers will be glad to know that British ministers have arrived in the Transvaal to attempt to negotiate a settlement but, sadly, it looks like the Boers are intransigent and may attack us at any time. Better news is that there has been a major gold strike on the beaches of Nome in northern Alaska.
Nearer to home, oh dear, the Reverend Kenneth MacLeay of Craigrownie, Cove, has moved to divorce his wife Elizabeth. The minister, on arrival at the railway station to travel into Glasgow for a preaching appointment, asked if his wife and child had caught the train to Ullapool to visit a relative. He was shocked to find she had, instead, boarded a train to Manchester and realised it was to meet with her former lover.
What a scandal. It will probably still be talked about more than 100 years from now.
Russell Vallance,
4 West Douglas Drive,
Helensburgh.
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