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...plentiful as usual. As The Twelfth, the historic August opening of Britain's grouse season approached, the reports turned dismal again. ''Grouse disease" had thinned out the coveys. Day before The Twelfth the moors were reported soggy, dank. Consequently Scotsmen anxiously assembled at the Edinburgh and Glasgow railroad stations to note how many rich Englishmen and Americans were coming up from London for that most decorous of outdoor sports, grouse shooting from butts...
...lack of bags to report last week, newsgatherers reported on field costumes. Gillies, who could get no work from the rich visitors, and moor owners, who could get no renters, went grousing on their own. Grouse they killed were selling last week in Edinburgh at $5 per brace, in Glasgow at $7.50. Those were remarkably low prices for early in the season. Late in November, prices come down. It is then, just before the grouse season closes and after the rich renters have killed the female and young grouse, and gone away, that the patient Scotsmen go afield. They know...
Roosevelt Steamship Co.'s City of Baltimore was, as TIME stated, the first ship documented out of Baltimore since days of clippers. "Documented" means flying the flag of the port. Allan Line was an English line of which the home port was Glasgow. It operated between Quebec and Glasgow, using Halifax as a winter port. Its boats all had one word names and there is no record of a Novascotian. In 1915 the Allan Line was bought by Canadian Pacific. Empress of France is an old Allan Liner...
Rain continued next day when Their Majesties went up to Glasgow to dedicate a new dock...
...There are still new worlds for Glasgow to conquer," said George V, "There is for example the southern half of the American Continent from which my dear son the Prince of Wales recently returned and which I believe will one day be bound to Britain by close commercial ties...