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Leaves from my Scrap-Book

... Leaves from my Scrap-Book. 11. Original Burns Stories. To the immortal memory of Robert Burns ! How are we to explain his growing popularity? Carlyle has given us worthy estimate of the greatest literary genius Scotland has produced. Notwithstanding ...

Published: Thursday 24 January 1907
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 839 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Leaves from my Scrap-Book

... Leaves from my Scrap-Book. ABOUT UMBRELLAS. Almost everything lias a history. But, as >ne struggles along during some beating rain, trying keep the umbrella from turning inside out, it never occurs to him to inquire concerning the appearance and the ...

Published: Thursday 11 April 1907
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 829 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Leaves from my Scrap-Book

... Leaves from my Scrap-Book. THE ORIGIN OF SOME FAMOUS SAYINGS. Much interest attaches to many our familiar sayings—the origin which little known and somewhat obscure. propose to give an account of several these, and the circumstances that gave rise to ...

Published: Thursday 07 March 1907
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1068 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Leaves from my Scrap-Book

... Leaves from my Scrap-Book. Some years ago the Spectator gave a choice selection of Irish bulls, and the following are worthy of special mention : Did you ever see so thin a woman that before ? Thin, said the other farmer, I seen a woman down in ...

Published: Thursday 14 February 1907
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 847 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DUNDEE SCRAPBOOK

... DUNDEE SCRAPBOOK Perhaps the most important programme of the week from Dundee is the Scrapbook,” to be broadcast at .8 p.m. in the Scottish Home Service on Wednesday. November. F° r this programme half-a-dozen Dundee writers are co-operating with the ...

Published: Wednesday 17 November 1948
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 192 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

“SCRAPBOOK FOR 1924”

... “SCRAPBOOK FOR 1924” Charles Brewer and Leslie Baily will | present “Scrapbook for 1924” in the Scottish programme at 7.0 to-night. This “ Scrapbook ” will be less historic than previous ones, as it will deal with events which have not yet passed into ...

Published: Wednesday 27 May 1936
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 734 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NATURE SCRAPBOOK

... and we were able to read the time from our watches unaided. From the wood across the burn a bird chirped, and then at 3.42 came the tinkling song of the robin. Three minutes later a mavis broke suddenly into song from the trees on our side of the burn ...

Published: Friday 10 June 1949
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1193 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NATURE SCRAPBOOK

... NATURE SCRAPBOOK One of the oldest oil field is that whirl the low road from West Calder and the ' In recent years of the oilfield has been written about, the ' Addiewell works are shale oil works in seemed to be so lig! It is always mentioned James ...

Published: Friday 23 April 1948
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1218 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SCRAP-BOOK COMPETITION

... SCRAP-BOOK COMPETITION. A Prize of Five Shillings Weekly will be awarded for the best contribution received. THOUGHTS OF HOME, My hair is grey, my step is weak, My eyes are failing fast: The winter of my chequered life Is nearing now its last: The sunshine ...

Memoirs From My Scrapbook. W. B. M

... Memoirs From My Scrapbook. W. B. M. Some weeks back I wrote an art*le frrlm my scrapbook memoirs of a cricept match played on the Hill a great many summers ago. Its popularity by far cxceeded the humble writer's expectations and resulted in him receiving ...

1907 Scrapbook and American Variety

... 45—Chamber Music—New English Trio. 12.15—Beneath the Green Willow'—An Episode from Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler. 12.45—Organ Recital by Frank E. Woodhouse, from Manchester. I.ls—Gramophone Records—M iscella leous. o—For the Schools —Interlude ...

Published: Monday 25 October 1937
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 739 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

“THE SCRAP.BOOK” AT THE S AT HAMBRAL s

... this famous firm's hest efforts, From a spee. tacular point of view ‘'The ?Sora_rxpmmm’ B is undoubtedly the biggest and heaviest rovie evaer aant out of Tondon. One unigue scone travesiios such widely differing, veb world-famed, writers as Elinar Glyn, ...