Willie Maley patted Sunny Jim Young on the back and said, “your day will come”

From 1900 onwards there had been advertisements in Glasgow newspapers trying to persuade people that they should eat “Force” cereal for their breakfast.In these poverty-stricken, hunger-haunted days (the Boer War recruiting campaign of a few years previously had foundered because so many young men in big cities like Glasgow and Liverpool were malnourished and unfit...