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2013: There was a good turnout at Glenbarr War Memorial for a Remembrance Sunday blessed with warm sunny weather. The service was performed by Rev Chris Fulcher and the reading of the names by Sergeant Robert Semple of the 7th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland.

1822: Excerpt from the Logbook of the U.S. Schooner Shark LCDR M.C. Perry commanding: Remarks, Thursday, July 25th At 2, having received from the Macedonian what Provisions and Stores she

1856: William Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose at 4 and walked on the beach, returned home and bathed. At 8 a.m. barometer 29.62, thermometer 86, wind east northeast 3, clouds 4. Major William Fraser’s symptoms are favorable The family of Murphy, father, mother and four children, are very sick and it is thought some will die. Wrote to Mother. Went up to see Dr. Pettingill and he filled my front teeth with an amalgam and pulled out a jaw tooth which was too far gone to fill. It is one wh...