25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, October 21, 1971

THE unmarried mother should be paid a State wage, the National Children's Bureau says in a report. It says the wage should be based on the average national industrial earning, to ease the handicaps that still face illegitimate children. The report said the wage should be paid 'by right, not by charity' because motherhood was a hard job and children were society's investment in the future.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, October 21, 1946

HUNDRED'S of ships' whistles and sirens screamed out, scores of planes circled overhead, bands were playing on the pier and city fireboats sprayed curtains of water into the air as the 85,000-ton Queen Elizabeth docked in New York today after her first Atlantic crossing as a luxury peace-time liner.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, October 20, 1871

SIR,- I reside in the neighbourhood of the Heywood Recreation Ground, through which is being cut, or rather blasted, a new railway. The grounds have been closed for some time, our children deprived of their playground, and they are in great danger of being run over. But this is not the only danger. From the blasting of the ground there have been many narrow escapes to children and adults by the falling of stones and earth. I have conversed with several experienced excavators who say they are astonished, as they never saw such a thing attempted before in such a densely populated neighbourhood. There has already been one life lost, and how long must people go to and from their work in fear through a public thoroughfare, not knowing what moment they may be struck down. I remain, sir, yours truly, A Resident of the Neighbourhood.

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