Snippings from the past...

[dseagull]

One of my more eccentric habits is to catch up on the day's news from over 100 years ago. Way back in 2014, the Daily Telegraph started sharing their archived edition - Sundays, aside from a few in the very early part of World War One, are missing (they didn't exist), and the actual dedicated website seems to have vanished too, but the files are still active if you search for them on Google - for example February 19, 1914; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02821/Telegraph1914_1902_2821342a.pdf

 

Edit; missed a sentence!

 

This was done to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of WW1, and goes up until December 31st 1918.

 

Anyway, today in 1914 there was a fairly interesting piece on Frederick Restall, who was evidently a very popular man.

Note the (very) thinly veiled dig at the Great Eastern for appointing the first non-British General Manager towards the end!

 

I'm hoping that as this is now 110 years old it is considered out of copyright, but if it isn't and needs to be removed, apologies!

Edited February 19 by dseagull