25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, May 21, 1973

PARENTS and those interested in the welfare of young people cannot fail to be disquieted by revelations in the Evening News that Bolton is one of the places in Britain where it is easiest to buy heroin, and that the town is well known among those involved in the drug 'scene' as a place where all kinds of drugs can be obtained.

This is a most unenviable reputation. Admittedly, such statements are difficult to prove or disprove but the fact that they can be made at all must cause anxiety among both citizens and authority.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, May 21, 1948

SCOTTISH Church criticism of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh for going to the races and a nightclub on Sunday during their Whitsun visit to Paris, surprised and considerably amused Parisians today. Their attendance at the British Embassy Church twice earlier in the day was cited as proof that they had no intention of disregarding Sunday observance.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, May 21, 1873

ON Sunday evening last, according to testimony of the Spiritualists, Thomas Payne, the deist, though long since 'gone to that bourne from when no traveller returns' (according to the ignorance of Shakespeare) was 'holding forth' on the truth of spiritualism in the Reform Club, Peel-street. There was a tolerably large congregation.

THE first general meeting of the Westhoughton Terminable Benefit Building Society took place at the Town's Offices, Westhoughton, on Monday evening. Over 600 shares were registered. There is every reason to believe that all the available shares will be quickly taken up.

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