An important lesson
An Editorial from yesterday’s Scotland on Sunday can be read here. The closing passage of this Editorial:
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Some secret shape of time [AUDACIOUS]
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Barran
Barran croft, Dalmally, Argyll: 1870 Ordnance Survey map: 9 June 1881, Oban Times and Argyllshire Advertiser: 30 July 1881, Oban Times and Argyllshire Advertiser: 3 August 1907, The Scotsman: Undated:
Scottish Flying Machine
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Batavaim
27 September 1911, The Scotsman:
Death of The Witness
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Port-na-Craig
Port-na-Craig Ferry, Pitlochry: 21 October 1903, Perthshire Advertiser: 10 August 1904, Perthshire Advertiser: 21 June 1905, Dundee Courier: 15 January 1909, Dundee Courier: 23 May 1913, Dundee Courier:
‘CYCLIMANIA’
As reported in the Falkirk Herald, 24 June 1933: