Lost in Last Century
By Val
@valmnz (17095)
New Zealand
October 6, 2015 6:49pm CST
I'm just taking a break while thinking about lunch. For the last hour or so I've been lost in last century, 1908 in fact. I'm trying to make sense of all the politics involved in the Council raising a loan for the local municipal baths.
One thing for sure, reading all this toing and froing makes me realise I'd never want to go into politics of any sort, even at a local level. But I am loving the old fashioned language arising from the Council minutes and the newspaper reports of the time.
My Dad was one year old when all this was happening, so it's fascinating looking at it from that perspective and how life was for his family at that time.
I never realised Councils in that early period would have such difficulty in raising a loan for a public amenity. I guess it's still the same today, even for individuals. Fortunately I haven't had to raise a loan for ages.
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@valmnz (17095)
• New Zealand
7 Oct 15
But probably far more fascinating reading than what I'm immersed in today! When I was in Melbourne recently I attended a fascinating discussion involving the research a writer had done on a murder case from back in the 1920s. Very interesting.
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@Shellyann36 (11383)
• United States
7 Oct 15
Sounds interesting. I wonder what the population was at the time when they were trying to raise the funds? I don't bother with politics outside of voting for who I want elected and of course signing petitions for things I see that are wrong happening.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
7 Oct 15
the concept of public baths is odd to me, that's something that I've only read about
@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
7 Oct 15
I recently looked at the local newspapers that were published at the time my mother was born in 1915 - this was so that I could read snippets at her 100th birthday party. One piece was about a policeman stopping a motorist whose headlights were too bright - they might have been visible from sea by a German warship - and another was about two cars that were caught racing at speeds approaching 30 miles per hour!
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