25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, April 30, 1972

THE 25 members of the first bare ballet to be staged in Australia arrived in Sydney today more worried about catching cold than attracting criticism. The male and female members of the Nederlands Dans Theatre said there was too much emphasis on their nude dancing. 'The nude scene has been blown up out of all proportion', said one. 'I find no difference dancing with my clothes on or off. We never had any criticism of the dance, but I am recovering from a cold I caught playing it in New Orleans.'

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, April 30, 1947

BOLTON is perhaps more cosmopolitan than we had imagined. There are groups who study German and French. There is a Russian Circle.

Now we hear that the international language Esperanto is to be featured at a conference convened by the Bolton Esperanto Society on Saturday. A concert with special items will be given in the evening by the Manchester Clarion Choir, half the programme of glees and part songs being sung in Esperanto.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, April 30, 1872

AT half-past three o'clock in the morning of Wednesday, a woman named Emma Howard, aged 32 years, a thread winder, and living alone in a cellar at Eagley, died after a very short illness. On Monday afternoon, a neighbour woman going into the cellar found the deceased in bed very ill. She made her some warm tea, and, with the assistance of other neighbours, watched by her bedside. The deceased on the Tuesday was seized with violent vomiting, and Dr Robinson was summoned in attendance upon her. She continued to grow worse, notwithstanding every help was tendered to her, until the hour above named, when death put an end to her sufferings. The deceased was a married woman, and during the past twelve months had been living away from her husband. For some weeks she has been in a very low and desponding state. Dr Robinson refuses to give a certificate of the cause of death, on the ground that the deceased exhibited strong symptoms of having taken poison.

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