From the Evening News, August 19, 1904: A REIGN of terror still continues at Statesboro, Georgia, where the feud between the blacks and whites is daily becoming more serious.
A mob of white people went out hunting for negroes yesterday and shot four of the blacks, killing one of them. Many others have been taken and flogged. Most of the negroes have left their homes and are hiding in the wood. News come through from the Stateborough district with difficulty, but it is admitted that two negroes were shot and two hanged on Wednesday and a father and son were shot yesterday morning. Many are flogged daily till they become unconscious. Many officers of the militia are resigning on account of the apathy of their superiors and the churches are considering expelling lawless members of their community.
From the Evening News, August 19, 1954: ENTERTAINMENT and instruction was provided for hundreds of people associated with churches, chapels and other local organisations last winter by the Tillotsons Newspapers film illustrating the production of the Green Final.
This is being amended and improved and will be available, free of charge, this autumn and winter.
Towards the end of last season applications were coming in so thick and fast that it was at times difficult to meet all requests and we therefore suggest that organisations which would like to see this film should contact us as soon as possible.
COMEDIAN George Formby, who has been prevented by illness since Monday from appearing in the show "Turned Out Nice Again" at the Blackpool Hippodrome, was "much better" today.
Mrs Formby said the doctor was visiting today and George wanted to get back to the show as soon as possible.
From the Evening News, August 18, 1979: NEARLY 300 Bolton jobs are threatened in proposed cuts at two works.
More than 220 employees of Automotive Products are to be asked to accept voluntary redundancy and 63 jobs are to be lost at the Radcliffe Paper Mill at Little Lever by mid-October.
An Automotive Products spokesman said that employees thrown out of work by the fire in February were still being paid.
ATHERTON schoolboy Nigel Short missed becoming national chess champion by a whisker last night.
His final gambit cost him the title -- and this morning 14-year-old Nigel, who attends Bolton School, was presented with £780, his third share of the first prize money in the British Chess Championships.
He shared the £2,350 prize with grand master Dr John Nunn and 27-year-old Robert Bellin, who became British champion under a new tie-break points system.
From the Evening News, August 19, 1994: BIKES in Bolton will be under lock and key from now on as new cycle parking stands have just been opened at Le Mans Crescent to give bikers a secure home for their machines.
The stands, which have space for 16 cycles, have been placed in the arches to give some protection from the weather.
HEALTH care suppliers Karomed Ltd have been hit by 20 incidents of crime in the last 15 months at their distribution base in Cranfield Road, Lostock, Bolton.
Managing Director Martin Waller, who has written to Bolton West Tory MP Tom Sackville, says philosophically: "All you can do is look to the future and carry on."
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