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PRACTICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE TAY BRIDGE CATASTROPHE

... submitted to the Town Council on Flour, 59 ! Monday first. The following are the uames o£ the West. Un n- candidates put on the short leet:- Futurez - f William Bain (44), Lieutenant, Edinburgh eity June detii Police 'of Cotton, J.~ Gordon Shirrefs Gordon of ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1880
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6604 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

TAY BRIDGE DISASTER

... :time a slight shower low of rain began to fall it was feared that the morning Iw would not be so good asv was expected. T'h a short m time the rain ceased, the sky 'became clearer, and riaf 'hopes of favourable weather: again revived. The was steam-tug F ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1880
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 15965 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

... reply, and wonld esteem it a favour if you could ul80 find space for it in tho Herald:- Sir, - M~ay I beg of you space for a short note on above subject. I have just seen M~r Maskelyne's I letter in-the 7i~nej of yesterday, and an3 surprised to learn first ...

Published: Friday 02 January 1880
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6135 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

SOCIAL MEETINGS

... by lit the purpose. The company numribered tibout 80. ilb 'l'he Chairanicii, Brother Smith, andi Brother Russell ohl ;,cIve short addresses; appropritite to the ocqasion, and Hi vafioutl of the mcem bers of the Order. contributed th greatly to the eveuling's ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1880
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2547 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE TAY BRIDGE DISASTER

... kept well aft, and planted themselves as whe n- securely as possible against cranes, and amongst coils The nd of ropes; in short, every position which dure to afforded the least shelter, and which was the to likely to prove safe under the circumstances ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1880
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7288 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 5

... organist-j Rtion of an army on modemn principles in the case of China. - What, however, gives the new phase of this pretty old story somne freshness is the possibility that the twso struggles maay have outer connections. Al sorts of reports are afloat as to ...

Published: Monday 05 January 1880
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5722 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

VACATION SPEECHES

... the first occasion on whicht I address you since, my election, I would fain express the hops that though my timhe has been short, yet so far as you had the opportunity of judging both by speech and vote, I have not appeared to y'ou to halve swerved from ...

Published: Tuesday 06 January 1880
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5422 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

FIFE AND CLACKMANNAN MINERS

... increase was given grudgingly and stingily, as if they were doing the last act of a churl. When the tius again came r rounld the story would be repeated that the em- ployers wvillingly increased the men's wages. It ts Iwas a newspaper lie, and that kind of lie ...

Published: Tuesday 06 January 1880
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2491 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MR GLADSTTNE AND MR BOURKE

... employed where despatch is necessary. r a ami, A SELLER SOLD.-Alphonse, Kerr, in his Livre d'' %ry Bord, tells a nice little story of Auguste Romienu ras'well-known writer on Le Figaro, whose practical jokes P Usmade him famous all over Paris. One night ...

Published: Wednesday 07 January 1880
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4269 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MR.JOLLY. HER MAJESTY'S INSPECTOR, ON THE REALISM OF POETRY

... tio background for the human. Gradually nature became studied by the poet for its own sake, and M~r Jolly here lb( gave a short sketch of the growth of naturalistic poetry w in this ceuntury, ai new era originating with Allan Ram- we say anod Thomrpsonl ...

Published: Thursday 08 January 1880
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2106 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 8

... more bodies-were recovered-bring- 0 ing the total number up to fourteen. The E bodies discovered yesterday were all found a s short distance below the bridge. Diving t operations werezesumed yesterday, but did not i result in any additional information being ...

Published: Thursday 08 January 1880
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6529 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

ELGIN

... Gee. Wood delivered an a.iddress. Mr Jis. Matir junior, was the next speaker, aTid lie illustrated his remarks by telling stories. The other speakers were Messrs Thomas Findlay, Hooker, !Iex. Findlay, John Addison, Win. Addison, and John M'Iutyre, colpo-r ...

Published: Friday 09 January 1880
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1941 | Page: 3 | Tags: News