OF LIFE MORE THAN 90 YEARS AGO
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THE stories and adverts from the old copies of the Daily Record give a unique insight into the era: ● A woman of 50 sued her former fiance for breach of promise claiming damages relating to the number of kisses she’d given him.
The woman, from Kentucky in the US, declared she had shared 400,000 kisses with her ex and was awarded $20,000 damages – calculated at five cents a kiss. This was £4000 in the exchange rate of the time. ● 30 trawlers were caught in a storm in Icelandic waters, leading to the deaths of 73 fishermen.
Six children also perished when they froze to death out playing far from their homes, unable to get to shelter.
Another severe storm claimed the lives of seven men on a motor boat. ● Two sun-bleached skeletons found in a desert were identified as RAF officers who’d been missing for seven months. Their plane had been forced to land in a sandstorm in Iraq.
It’s thought they may have attempted to walk to safety and lay undiscovered hidden by sand. ● Armed men confronted a woman at home in the night and then shot dead her brother, according to a court report. Two men were charged with the murder of John Connolly at Castlerea, Ireland. ● Ford cars Drawings of the new range of Ford cars were on proud display. It explained each model as so greatly refined “as to afford more in the way of real comfort, convenience and general satisfaction than has ever been obtainable”. ● It’s not a brand name that travels well in modern times – but in the 20s, the milk was sold for children with the promise it would make them bloom. ● There were a selection of 20s-style fashions in an advert for Treron’s, a ladies’ clothing shop in Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street. ● Before health concerns over cigarettes, the Army Club brand were advertising their product to those who valued cleanliness. They were billed as the only brand wrapped solely in airtight and dust-proof packets.