From the Evening News,

September 20, 1974

BRITAIN'S 8,000,000 old-age pensioners and the needy will pay 20 a week less for beef from December. This is the chief effect of a giant food deal with the Common Market. But we will all have to pay p a pint more for milk before Christmas, in an attempt to prevent a winter milk shortage. Farmers will be paid 8p more a gallon.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

September 20, 1949

WALTER MacGuffie, Bolton's British flyweight wrestling champion, has received another honour by being chosen to take part as flyweight representative in the international match against Denmark on Sunday. MacGuffie has been a top-class wrestler for a number of years, having held the British title continuously for a number of years. He lost it to H. Parker in 1948 but regained it this year.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

September 21, 1874

THE capture of a slave dhow by her Majesty's ship Vulture, Commander A.T. Brooke, is reported, off the north-west coast of Madagascar on the 11th of August. It was full of slaves - 41 men, 59 women, and 137 children. The slaves were suffering acutely from weakness and cramp, having had to remain in one position for a long time. Several of the children were unable to straighten their legs for three or four days after they were received on board. One woman was found buried up to her neck in lamp sand at the bottom of the slave dhow under the lower slave deck. The owners were thirty-five Arabs, and the captain determined to take them to Zanzibar and have them summarily dealt with. The Vulture sailed for the Seychelles, after burning the dhow, and picking up four boats which had been sent away cruising. The passage was made in ten days, and during that time seventeen liberated slaves died of dysentery and extreme debility.

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