25 YEARS AGO

SOME nurses at London's Guy's Hospital work in striptease clubs to supplement their meagre wages, it is reported. Today the world is desperately short of nurses, and low pay scales are turning girls against the profession.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, December 23, 1948

EVERYTHING is about ready for the brightest Christmas in Bolton since the end of the war, with more food, more drink, and a greater variety of presents at slightly lower prices than last year. But things will be missed. There will be no fresh bread from the bakeries between Friday and Tuesday. Last deliveries to the shops will be tomorrow. There will be no Sunday papers, and the last paper to be circulated in Bolton will be tomorrow's 'Evening News'.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, December 23, 1873

OUR Christmas annals are, we very much regret to find, stained with what appears to be a brutal crime. One Thomas Holt, of Breightmet, stands charged with causing the death of his wife. The whole facts of the case are not yet known, but enough of particulars have been gleaned to enable our readers to form a tolerably clear idea of the circumstances which led to so sad a result. It appears that Holt and his wife were together at the Hare and Hounds public house, Breightmet, yesterday afternoon. He threatened to use violence to her, and the statements of various parties go to show that after they left the public house, the husband carried out his threat. Her screams attracted the attention of two neighbours, who went to Mrs Holt, and found her lying on the ground, having apparently fallen down an excavation. One of them remonstrated with the husband, who stood over his wife, so he went away. The injured woman was speechless. She was carried into a house, and died immediately. The cause of death, and whether or not it has actually arisen from violence at the hands of her husband, are matters that will be duly enquired into by the proper tribunals. However the fatal occurrence has transpired, it is a sad Christmas for the six motherless children at Breightmet.

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