The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
THE ARCHIVES
100 years ago
We fought that the world might be a fit place to live in and the world won’t be a fit place to live in so long as any Great Power can do what Germany did. Thus said President Wilson, continuing his speech-making tour in Montana on behalf of the League of Nations, adding that under the League there could be no possibility of any people being thrown into a war without their own consent, but that if the League failed the United States would be deliberately guilty of preparing the situation which would bring on the final world war.
50 years ago
The first section of Belfast’s “peace” wall is complete except at one street corner, and here the army has struck a snag. Operations have been held up by a dispute over a tiny terraced house at the junction of Dover Street and Beverley Street. Mrs Annie Keown, the 79-yearold widow who lives there, is a Catholic, and her son James wants the house on the Falls side of the army barricade so that it can be protected. But Protestants in the area are demanding the barricade be built just the other side of her house.
25 years ago
US security agencies were last night trying to determine whether the light plane crashing on to the White House lawn was a bizarre accident or a deliberate kamikaze-style attack. The Cessna glided engine-off through forbidden air space before crashing on the South Lawn and skidding into the White House. President Bill Clinton and his family were asleep nearby at Blair House, a guest residence they are using during White House refurbishment work. The pilot from Perryville, Maryland, was killed in the incident.
One year ago
A new performing arts centre could stop Fife’s exodus of young talent to Scotland’s major cities. Dunfermline’s Alhambra Theatre Trust’s ambitious plans would create a studio theatre, arthouse cinema and headquarters for the blossoming Alhambra Stage and Dance School. Influenced by the famous Wilton’s Music Hall in London, its ambition is to create a 21st Century version of a traditional repertory company and a home for young writers.