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UPSETTING NEWS FROM WARRISTON

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Another of Warriston Cemetery’s gentle giants has fallen.

The latest example, when seen from Warriston Road, appears to have been rooted in the bank by the Water of Leith.

Closer inspection, though, shows that it’s the one next to the informal entry into the cemetery from the cyclepath at Warriston Junction.

EDWARDIAN NEWS FROM THE MEWS 4

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FIRE IN AN EDINBURGH WORKSHOP.

A fire broke out in a joiner’s workshop situated in Swinton Row, Broughton Street, Edinburgh, yesterday afternoon.[1]

The workshop, which occupies a two-storeyed brick building, is in close proximity to Messrs Moir & Co.’s large funeral undertaking establishment, where, in the stables and yard, there were a large number of horses, hearses, cabs, and other vehicles.

EDWARDIAN NEWS FROM THE MEWS 3

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LEITH POLICE COURT.

(BAILIE M’KELVIE ON THE BENCH.)

THURSDAY

Robert Mearns, labourer, Greenside Row, Edinburgh, was not working about the beginning of the present month, but he devised other and easier means to become the proud possessor of two quart bottles of whisky.

STOP ALL THE CLOCKS

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You may be experiencing a chronological meltdown.

Your dreary minutes may seem to last for hours. Dull hours for days. Each week may be indistinguishable from any other, each in its own repeat eternity.

How shall we navigate such fog? No normal chronometer will serve, not one designed to measure intervals between events. We need something new, an anti-clock, something particularly fit for nothingness and accurate to within a fraction of an absence.

Cometh the hour, cometh the shop.

EDWARDIAN NEWS FROM THE MEWS 2

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TO-DAY’S POLICE NEWS.

EDINBURGH CITY—Before BAILIE GIBSON.

FORTY-EIGHT HOURS’ CRIME.

There were 74 new prisoners brought to the bar. The charges were: Disorderly, 30; incapable, 22; assault, 7; nuisance, 5; theft, 3; begging and housebreaking, 2 each; and drunk in charge of a child, drunk in charge of a horse, and cruelty to children, 1 each.

FRIENDS FALL OUT.

EDWARDIAN NEWS FROM THE MEWS 1

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A Compendium

of

New Town

Noir.

*****

Viz.

North Edinburgh’s

Back-Streets & Dark Corners

as Reported in

Scottish Broadsheets

during His Late Majesty’s Reign

from 20 January 1901 to 6 May 1910.

*****

Compiled from Original Sources

& Most Attentively Annotated

for the Convenience, Elucidation & Entertainment

of Generous Subscribers

by

A. J.