25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 1, 1971

AT least 2,500 people died when a tidal wave caused by a cyclone hit Eastern India last Friday.

A PAY proposal costing £97 million that would give teachers an average of 15 per cent salary rise was announced today by the Assistant Master's Association. It would affect more than 360,000 teachers in England and Wales, and give a young teacher a starting salary of £1,200, rising to £2,400 after 15 years, even if he got no promotion.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 1, 1946

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125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 1, 1871

ON Saturday considerable anxiety was manifested by the employees at the Buckley-lane Colliery, Farnworth, concerning the whereabouts of their respected mate, who, after leaving work in the earlier part of the day, had not been seen at home or elsewhere. The dinner having been passed, also the tea, without the absent one - a young man - having 'turned up', and the fact of his missing having been circulated, it was resolved that a search of the workings of the mine should be at once instituted. Four fellows were lowered down into the pit in the evening, and were searching up and down in the mine until two o'clock on Sunday morning, when the hapless wanderer was found comfortably enjoying a nap in a corner of one of the workings. Of course he was immediately awoke, and was surprised to find himself the hero of the hour, and to be welcomed on the pit bank by numerous friends almost as one recovered from the dead.

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