25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, October 26, 1971

DOZENS of disappointed Bolton Wanderers' fans were today turned away from Trinity Street station after trying to book for tomorrow's Cup-tie special to London. Every seat on the 12-carriage train, for fans to watch the Wanderers play Chelsea in the fourth round of the League Cup, has been taken.

THE United Nations General Assembly has admitted Red China and expelled Taiwan, the island ruled by the Nationalist Chinese.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, October 26, 1946

AFTER following his job as a carter for 55 years, Mr John James Thomas, 25, Thorn-st., Bolton, retired today on the eve of his 70th birthday. For 50 years he has been in the employ of Messrs J. Nall and Co., Ltd. He has been a familiar figure in the Deane and Derby-st. districts. Mr Thomas, a great lover of horses, proudly boasts that he has never carried a whip!

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, October 26, 1871

John Burgess, painter, 81 Back Spring Gardens, remanded from Monday at the Borough Court, charged with attempting to stab Thomas Lee, core-maker, 33 Spring Gardens, on the 22nd inst. was again brought up. - Mr Hall, the public prosecutor, said he was satisfied the evidence did not bear out the charge, and he should not interfere. It was a mere street row, and the prisoner was never within a yard of Lee. It will be remembered that a crowd assembled around the prisoner's house on a cry being raised that a child was being murdered, and that the prosecutor acted in an officious manner by stopping the prisoner's wife, who was carrying some beer, and, taking it from her, upset it. The prisoner hearing of this went out with a knife with which he was eating his supper, in his hand, and, according to the prosecutor's statement, he stood three or four yards off and struck at him. - The prisoner was discharged.

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