December 1929
Tramway Treat to Children
Dundee tramwaymen will launch next week their annual attack on the pockets of citizens on behalf of their Christmas treat to the poor.
The decorated car will be touring the principal streets, and no one should miss seeing its display of colour. Mr W. Wallace and his assistants deserve congratulations on their work, which is no easy task. The design of the car this year takes the form of a well-known Dundee landmark.
Greenmarket Stance
The old Greenmarket in Shore Terrace is threatened with extinction. It is proposed to transfer the open-air market to the space under the Caird Hall Square. The average income from the Greenmarket works out at £994 annually, and the estimated income from the cover, with its freedom from the adverse effected of bad weather, was placed at £1400, and proably more. The matter is by no means settled yet, but except for sentimental reasons it is not likely that anyone will mourn the passing of the market. It has served its day and generation.
Great Term Sale at John Young's
For 'Ideal Home' furniture, Phone No. 2249
Chesterfield suites from £12 10/-
Sideboards from £4 5/-
Bedroom suites from £14 10/-
Everything for the home
Genuine reductions at 40-42 Victoria Road.
Literary Society
Dundee Unionist Association Literary Society met in the Unionist Rooms on Tuesday night - Mr F.P. Brown presiding. An amusing lecture was delivered by Mr John Peters, Headmaster, Logie Central School on "Popular Superstitions".
A vole of thanks was accorded the speaker on the call of Miss Gladys Scott, and a similar compliment was paid the chairman on the call of Mr Connolly.
Bird Breeder
William Wyllie, the well-known Dundee bird breeder, secured two second prizes in the Border Fancier Section at the Marchinch Arnithological Society's Show on Saturday.
Respectable Woman
Experienced, wishes housekeepers' place on farm or milking, with house. No 285, People's Journal Office.
Unique Dundee Competition - Tempting Dishes
Prizes presented by an anonymouse lady for the finest plates of fish and chips were competed for by members of the men's cookery class of the Harris Academy Continuation Classes, on Wednesday night.
Nine students entered this unique competition, and turned out a row of temptingly odorous dishes. Mr Kyle, of Draffen's, acted as judge.
Mr S.A. Robertson, Director of Education, who presided at the presentation of prizes, said these had been given by a lady in Dundee who wished to see unemployment reduced by men of their own town being able to take up the work of making "fish and chips".
Miss Bell, of the Education Authority, presented the prizes to the following:-
1) John Ritchie, Churchill Place, Broughty Ferry
2) George McMillan, Brown Street, Broughty Ferry
3) William Robertson, Lochee Road
4) David Nicol, Lochlee Terrace
Do You Know That
The Kinnaird Hall, now known as the Kinnaird Picture House, was started as a corn exchange?
It was in 1853 that prominent citizens, including the then Lord Kinnaird and the late Rev George Gilfillan, conceived the idea of having a large hall for a corn exchange and public meetings. It was not until three years later that any definite step was taken. Two schemes came into view at the same time - one for a public hall and the other for a corn exchange.
An attempt was made to combine the two proposals, but they were kept separate. The site most favoured for the public hall was the Meadows, near where the Albert Institute now stands. The fatal objection to this site was the cost. For the corn exchange Lord Kinnaird offered a piece of ground in Bank Street.
In March 1856 the committee that was appointed reported that the subscriptions promised were totally inadequate to purchase the Meadows ground, and the idea had to be abandoned. The corn exchange movement, on the other hand, seemed to "go" from the first.
By the summer of 1858 the corn exchange was so far completed that a concert was given in it. On 11th November of that year it was completed, and brilliant functions were held at the inauguration. It was not till the spring of 1861 that the place was opened for corn exchange purposes.
As a meeting place for the farmers it career was short-lived, and at a meeting of the shareholders in Dundee in 1865 it was agreed to change the name from the corn exchange to the Kinnaird Hall - in honour of Lord Kinnaird, who had taken such an active part in its promotion.
Benefit Concert
Dundee Male Voice Choir, under the conductorship of Mr. T.P. Gillies, gave a concert at Mattocks, in aid of the funds for the children's Christmas tree. The programme was of wide variety, and was delightfully sustained.
Wireless for the Weekend - Vaudeville Programme
6.15 pm Time signal from Greenwich, weather forecast and news
6.40 pm Sports bulletin
7.00 pm Mr Robins Millar - a review of recent music events in Scotland
7.15 pm Musical interlude
7.30 pm Bermondsey Central School concert
8.00 pm An Orchestral Concert
9.00 pm Weather and news
9.39 pm Vaudeville - Leonard Henry, comedian; Destefano Bros., accordianists; Stuart Ross and Joe Sargent, syncopated harmony. Dance orchestra and an item from the Palladium.