25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 5, 1972

THE Duke of Windsor was buried at Windsor today after a simple but moving funeral service in St. George's Chapel. When the service began, the Duchess, all in black and heavily veiled, was a small, frail figure dwarfed by the towering stalls in bright heraldic colours of the Knights of England. When the coffin of English oak was gently rested upon the catafalque of purple, the widow stood with the Queen watching silently, her head slightly bowed.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 5, 1947

A SMALL girl arrived at a Daubhill mission school in a bathing costume.

'You can't stay here like that,' said the teacher.

'Why not?' asked the child. 'I went out at Blackpool like this, and they're supposed to be really select people there.'

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 5, 1872

HIS X MARK

A letter signed 'Vicar', published in the Liverpool Mercury, narrates an incident which has probably seldom been paralleled since the establishment of national schools. The reverend gentleman, who labours in a little but densely populated parish in Liverpool, joined two couples together in the bonds of holy matrimony, on Monday morning, and when a party of eight - namely, the four persons married and their witnesses - came to sign the registers it was ascertained that not one of them could write. 'Surely', remarks our correspondent, 'this is a rare case. Lord Brougham said with triumph "the schoolmaster's abroad"; but he seems to be so in another sense also, and it is time that he came home again.'

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