Boer War news (1901)

The Guernsey Advertiser dated February 2nd 1901

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The 2nd Boer War between the forces of the British Empire and the Dutch settlers of the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State started in 1899 and went through 3 distinctive phases - the Boer Offensive, the British Offensive and, from September 1900 until the War ended in May 1902, the Boer Guerrilla War. The story headed 'A De Wet story' makes it all sound so very gentlemanly, but it was far from it, with nearly 20,000 soldiers and about 28,000 civilians killed.

Random Cutting - Death of Verdi (1901)

2nd February 1901

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Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was born in 1813 and between 1839 and 1893 produced 30 operas including 'Rigoletto', 'La Traviata' and 'Aida'. He died on the 27th January 1901, a week after suffering a stroke.

Proclamation of King Edward VII (1901)

The Guernsey Advertiser dated Saturday February 2nd 1901

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When Queen Victoria died on the 22nd January 1901, her son and heir Albert Edward was 59 years old and had lived a 'full' life during his long wait to become King. The Coronation was set for the 26th of July but had to be postponed when he had to be rushed to hospital 2 days earlier for an appendectomy. The Coronation of Edward VII finally went ahead on the 9th of August. 

After Victoria's long and isolated mourning for her husband Albert, the popularity of the Royals was at a low ebb but Edward soon changed that by numerous public appearances here and on the Continent.

A life-long heavy smoker he died of a heart attack on the 6th may 1910 and his son became George V.

The poem which also appeared on the front page is, by modern standards, well over the top and makes the eulogies to Princess Diana look mundane.

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

Saturday Globe dated Saturday April 28th 1906

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The 1906 San Francisco earthquake had happened ten days previously on the 18^th April and, along with the subsequent fires, killed at least 3000 people and left 300,000 homeless.

The Saturday Globe was founded in Utica in upper New York State in 1881 and claimed to be the first illustrated newspaper in the USA. It was the first to use rotary halftone presses.  Colour had been used in papers from as far back as 1855. The picture on the front of this paper looks to have been hand-tinted. The Daily Record printed a colour photo of Haile Selassie in 1936, but the first British all colour paper wasn’t until ‘Today’ started in 1986.

By 1900 the Saturday Globe was being produced in 33 editions covering the country from Maine to California. This is an Oswega edition; Oswega being a city of some 25000 souls (1906 figure) on the shore of Lake Ontario about 60 miles north-west of Utica. 

Warning – the following article contains views that even the Duke of Edinburgh wouldn’t air.

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Long before the hey-day of the Chicago gangsters like Al Capone the city was well up in the 'Murder Capital of the USA' league tables, not to mention the International tournament.