From the archives
25 YEARS AGO AFTER two hours of football and six goals, the Skol Cup final between Rangers and Aberdeen moved to a dramatic shoot out in front of 71,961 fans at Hampden yesterday.
The hero for Rangerswas man of the match Ian Durrantwho capped a fine individual performance by sending his side’s last penalty past Jim Leighton for victory.
Aberdeen’sWelsh import Peter Nicholaswas the only man on either side to miss from the spot.
Ironically, he had volunteered to take one of the kicks after others had shown some reluctance. Rangers will nowbe allowed to keep the Skol Cup after winning it three times in the trophy’s existence. 50 YEARS AGO WITH the present emphasis in hospitals on highly technical treatment and the short-termpatient, the possibility of young nurses becoming case hardened is worrying oldermembers of the profession.
Thiswas stated in Glasgowby Miss Margaret CN Lamb, education officer of the Royal College of Nursing. Hospitals, treatments, and even illnesses had changed, she said.
Therewas nowno longer time for patient and nurse to get to knowand trust each other. The old-style nurse, with tepid sponges andmustard plaster, for example, was being replaced by a nurse “charging up and down theward with a hypodermic syringe and a bottle of pills”, she said. 100 YEARS AGO THREE Glasgowsuffragists, who refused to pay their Imperial taxes as a protest against the position inwhich women are placed in having no vote, had some of their belongings sold by sheriff officers on behalf of the Crown in Jail Square yesterday.
The names of the tax resisterswere Mrs Boyd, 9Windsor Quadrant; Mrs Reid, Brunswick House, Pollokshields, both members of theWomen’s Social and Political Union; and Miss Bunton, 10 Polwarth Gardens, a member of the Women’s Freedom League.
The articles exposed for auction consisted of a silver tea service, a gold watch and a brooch, and a table and clock. It is understood the articleswere bought for the owners. 150 YEARS AGO GREATWestern Cooking Depot – To the dozen of establishmentswhich have been already opened in various parts of the city for the purpose of providing cheap food for theworking classes, another at 74 Jamaica Street has just been added.
This newbranch is large and commodious, and can comfortably dine 400 persons at one time. The charge for breakfast and dinner is so low, that the uninitiated in themysteries of economical cooking maywell be surprised to learn that breakfast, consisting of a bowl of porridge, a bowl of milk, a cup of coffee, and a roll and butter, can be supplied every morning for threepence; and that dinner, consisting of a bowl of broth or soup, a plate of beef, hot or cold, a plate of potatoes, and also plum pudding, can be supplied for fourpence-halfpenny, daily, between one o’clock and four.