25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 13, 1971

AT least nine people died and 61 were injured in two pile-ups in thick fog on the M6. Most of the fatalities occurred in a group of six vehicles which caught fire when they crashed on the north-bound carriageway a mile south of the Thelwall Viaduct, Warrington.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 13, 1946

HE was selling paint on Bolton market - or rather trying to, for he had had no customers, although he had attracted a large crowd. Finally he said: "If everybody's so hard up, I'll give them a tin for nowt." But his remark, meant sarcastically, was taken literally.

"I'll have one," shouted a small man at the rear of the crowd. The salesman kept his promise and threw him a tin.

After scrutinizing it, however, the small man again shouted: "But I've just remembered, I've got no brush."

"Well," followed up the salesman, "there's a fortune teller over there; perhaps she'll tell thi how to get a brush for nowt, too."

125 YEARS AGO

JOSEPH and William Low were summoned at the Bury Sessions yesterday, to show cause why they should not contribute 1s 6d each towards the support of their father, who is 75 years of age, and resides at Nuttall Lane, Ramsbottom. The defendant Joseph is an engraver, earning 35s per week, and he has two children - one earning 14s 6d a week, and the other 12s 6d a week - while the other defendant is a beerhouse keeper at Bluepits. The old man's wife died in April, and the defendants were now willing to take their father to Darwen, where he should be under the care of one of his daughters, if £13 or £15 worth of furniture he had was realised, and allowed to go towards his maintenance. The bench made an order of 1s per week on each defendant.

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