Glasgow Evening Post
4 September 1867
Strone – phenomenon
On the evenings between Saturday and yesterday, from dark till sunrise, the waters at the mouths of the Holy Loch and Loch Long have presented a peculiarly brilliant appearance from the presence of a bright silvery light, every breaking wavelet emitting a light equal to a dozen gas burners, the appearance of the sea for many miles excelling the most vivid illumination. A basin full of the water contained many living creatures shown by the microscope, but it is doubtful if they were present in such numbers as to cause the very striking display. We are unable to learn whether the phenomenon was observed on the Renfrewshire side of the river.

Dundee Courier
5 September 1900
A plucky rescue
As John McColl, gamekeeper to Sir John Batty Tuke, was passing Aros Point, Mull, he heard cries for help. On turning round he saw three men struggling in the sea, some 50 yards from the shore, near an upset boat. Two were clinging to, and the third was half under the boat. Encumbered by his clothes and heavy shooting boots, McColl swam out, and brought the most exhausted of the men to shore. He then swam out for the others, making two journeys. Had it not been for McColl's plucky behaviour, the three men would inevitably have been drowned, as they could not swim.

Montrose, Arbroath and Brechin Review
6 September 1850
On Wednesday evening, as a railway train was coming in from Dubton, a boy was observed on the top of the iron bridge in the Links, with some stones in his hand. When the train passed under the bridge, he dropped a stone above the engine, intending it to descend the funnel. The engineer immediately stopped the engine, and succeeded in capturing the juvenile delinquent. One of the boy's parents coming up at the time, the engineer, at her earnest solicitations, set him at liberty. He had doubtless dropped the stone from mere thoughtlessness, and not with any evil design; but such conduct requires to be promptly checked, as loss of life might have been the result.

Alloa Advertiser
7 September 1850
Paisley
The manufacturing population here is at present fully employed, and good weavers are still in demand. This presents an agreeable contrast to the state of matters at the corresponding period last year, and for many preceding. We are glad to learn that the expenditure on account of pauperism is lower at the present moment than it was even prior to the great distress of 1842-3. Crime has of late months greatly decreased, so much so that at this date the prisoners are one-fourth less than they were half a year ago.

Carluke and Lanark Gazette
7 September 1907
New Lanark
To visitors to the Falls of Clyde, nothing is more annoying than the incessant appeals of the children of New Lanark. Commencing at the top of the hill, they cling to the numerous vehicles passing to and from the entrance to the falls, their ambitious cry being, 'Stan' on ma heid for a hap'ny.' Something might surely be done to stop what must be the source of considerable annoyance, not only to visitors, but to all who wish to preserve New Lanark's good name.

Portobello Advertiser
8 September 1876
Eccentric journalism
Errors arising from hasty and inconsiderate cutting down are to be met with, not in books (for an author always cuts himself down with remarkable tenderness), but in carelessly edited newspapers. A barrister of my acquaintance was much irritated at seeing it stated one morning in a journal that he defended a certain person 'who was accordingly convicted.' In connection with eccentric journalism a story is told of a reporter – in the days when descriptive reporting had not yet been invented – who, being instructed to report an eclipse of the sun, and finding that no speeches were delivered on the occasion, wrote, in stereotyped phrase, that 'the proceedings were entirely without public interest.'