Some of the stories making the news around Scotland on 1 April 1917 (outwith the Great War with over a year to run.)
Daughters of some of Dundee’s men at the Front
- Aberdeen to get women police patrols.
- Proposal to start a co-operative jute factory in Dundee.
- Edinburgh grocers are in favour of a card system for sugar distribution.
- Some Glasgow grocers are selling sugar in pennysworths.
- Holidays in munition areas are to be deferred until after the end of July.
- It is reported that 11,000 teachers in Scotland are getting less than £100 a year.
- Protests in Lochgilphead against Sunday labour in the woods and fields.
- Net profits of £270,432 reported by the Bank of Scotland for the past year.
- There is a credit balance of £150 from the British Industries Fair recently held in Glasgow.
- Crookston Combination Poorhouse is to be taken over for the reception of mentally afflicted soldiers.
- A ban on the sale of spirits in parts of Argyllshire and Buteshire has come into force.
- Some conscientious objectors from England are to be employed in forestry work at Ford in Argyllshire.
- The Marchioness of Graham has undertaken to provide Lamlash with a convalescent home for the wounded.
- The Dunoon and District Merchants’ Association have agreed to hold the Fast Days.
- The fishing village of Whitehills near Banff has lost in one week four men who were on Admiralty service.
- Tillycoultry Parish Council has decided to proceed with an extension of the cemetery at a cost of £2000.
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