25 YEARS AGO

Fom the Evening News, November 21, 1975

A KING-sized breakfast after only three hours sleep ushered in the reign of the new Miss World today. Wilnellia Mercer, from Puerto Rico, a 16-1 outsider with bookmakers, won the title at the Royal Albert Hall last night.

ABOUT 40 women and girl workers -- practically the entire workforce -- walked out of a Bolton clothing factory yesterday after the management refused to give them a £6 a week rise. The strikers at the Northgate Group Ltd. Eagley Mills factory, where blouses and children's shorts are made for Marks and Spencer and other firms, say the company has offered them £3 60p.

PRINCE Juan Carlos, aged 37, was sworn in as King of Spain today, the country's first monarch for 44 years.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 22, 1950

LESLIE Phillips, who plays the lead as Charley's Aunt at the Bolton Theatre Royal this week, has his feet already on the rungs of the ladder of fame. He has played all over the country, and appeared with famous personalties of screen and radio over the past few years.

PROFESSIONAL boxing matches may be in future promoted by Bolton Entertainments Committee, probably at the Drill Hall, because the Albert Hall would not be big enough.

BOLTON Transport Committee yesterday reaffirmed its previous decision not to allow travelling passes for district nurses. Contract tickets, said the chairman, Ald Bradley, were open to abuse, and if this concession were allowed the district nurses, he feared that many other would apply for them. Prepaid tickets were the best.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 22, 1875

THE recent death of a German princess has recalled the story of her daughter's romantic marriage. In Germany, princesses are badly off for husbands. They are bound by rigid etiquette to marry only princes; and as these are as poor as themselves, the princes generally took for wives elsewhere. The Princess Charlotte Frederica, of Schwarsburg-Sonderhausen, was travelling in Switzerland nearly 20 years ago, when from the windows of a hotel in Zurich, she saw a man with the face and figure of an Antinous. He was engaged in harnessing horses to a carriage, and was the son of a poor groom. He was not merely superbly handsome, but had the manners of a nobleman. His name, however, like his origin, was very plebeian -- Jud. But the princess fell desperately in love with him at first sight, and after much entreaty obtained the consent of her mother to offer Jud her hand. He was rather alarmed at first by the idea of marrying a princess, but there was no lack of encouragement, and the marriage took place. It has been a very happy match. Jud had the good sense to educate himself, and is now one of the chief officers on the staff of the Swiss army.