25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 5, 1973

MANCHESTER Health Committee decided today to stick to its original plan to add fluoride to the water supplies of all their consumers, which would include people in Bolton, Westhoughton, Bury and Radcliffe. The committee rejected a £25,000 free offer which would have seen fluoride added to milk and other beverages supplied to the city's schoolchildren.

BOLTON'S Housing Committee has abandoned its plan to buy Grecian Mill in Great Lever, Bolton, and redevelop the site for council houses after hearing that the property alone was priced at £250,000. It was decided to try to develop a slightly smaller area across the road from the mill for housing purposes.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 5, 1948

NEWSAGENTS have been experiencing a peculiar form of 'victimization'. It is said that many customers, because they cannot have cigarettes whenever they ask for them, are cancelling their newspaper orders with the result that many of the vendors are left with papers on their hands. This is not particular to one part of the town, but is happening in every district. The Executive Committee of the Bolton and District Newsagents' Association points out that everyone should be aware by this time that cigarette quotas cannot be increased, and says that it is unreasonable for customers to expect to be able to buy their 'smokes' as freely as they used to.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 5, 1873

THE Prince and Princess of Wales visited Bolton this afternoon, and opened our New Town Hall. A Royal Visit to the good old town of Bolton is an event of which we have had no previous experience. But we think we are not assuming more than our fair share of credit in asserting that nowhere has Royalty experienced a more enthusiastic reception than has been accorded to the Prince and Princess of Wales this afternoon. Neither the inhabitants nor their official representatives have been sparing in their efforts to render the occasion one of the most noteworthy, and although the well-worn aphorism

'Tis not in mortals to command success'

would perforce at times cross one's mind when looking at the lowering sky and drizzling rain which descended during a great portion of the morning, it was not without a sense of relief that an occasional glimpse of the sun gave hope that even Jupiter Pluvius having so far asserted his prerogative he might be appeased with the reflection that he had succeeded in making everybody feel uncomfortable, and so discontinue his attentions for the rest of the day.

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