The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
THE ARCHIVES
100 years ago
Intimation has been recieved by Mrs Muir, Innerleven, Methil, that her son, Lance-Corporal William Muir, Royal Scots, has fallen on the field of honour. The distressing information was conveyed in a letter from Captain Adams, who referred to the deceased as a splendid soldier, and who would have continued to rise in rank. He was in his 34th year and was, before enlisting, a coaltrimmer at Methil Dock. A keen sportsman, he was greatly interested in football and played numerous junior matches.
50 years ago
Workers and students yesterday turned out in force in the streets of Shanghai to pledge their support for Mao Tse-Tung in the great, but shadowy, struggle for power now shaking China. This was broadcast by Pekin Radio, which had earlier reported that Shanghai – China’s biggest city, with 10 million people – had been racked by anti-Mao plots to cut off water and electricity and paralyse transport. More repports of plots against the regime and ideology of Mao came in a broadcast from south-east China.
25 years ago
Three patients went on the run after smashing their way out of the locked Kinnoull ward at Murray Royal Hospital in Perth. The trio forcibly broke out of the hospital’s pool room at 7pm. One of the men is a prisoner in the city’s Friarton Prison, although he comes under the licence of Tayside Health Board while he is being detained in Murray Royal. By last night, one of the patients had already given himself up and returned to the hospital. Medical staff believed that none were a danger to the public.
One year ago
The fate of a Fife pottery brand is unclear following a drop in sales. Wemyss Ware owner Griselda Hill has been forced to lay off all her staff and may have to sell the brand if she cannot make it profitable over the coming year. In the meantime, the pottery will no longer be sold at galleries across the UK as Ms Hill struggles to keep production going on her own. She took over the Wemyss Ware trademark, famous for its brightly-painted ceramic animals including cats and pigs, more than 30 years ago.