From the Evening News, October 13, 1904: PRESIDENT Rossevelt had a tooth extracted in full view of the citizens of Washington. The dentist's was an open shop-front and a large crowd gathered round to watch how the President stood the pain.

A conference of all Bolton charity organisations has been convened to discuss the question of the unemployed. According to a report which Mr H I Cooper has forwarded to the Local Government Board, there are about 600 more poor in receipt of relief than at the corresponding period last year. It was reported to the Special Committee of the Board of Guardians that the unemployed in the town numbered 1,000 and there was much distress.

From the Evening News, October 13, 1954: MR T M Hesketh, secretary of the Holcombe Harriers, says the hunting prospects are "very good" for their first bye meet of the season at the Red Lion, Newburgh on Saturday at noon. Myxomatosis, which has killed off so many rabbits, does not affect hares. The chief anxiety for riders arises from the soft state of the ground - farmers have experienced difficulty in operating tractors.

HOUSEWIVES are becoming more "choosey" and price-conscious when they do their shopping now that rationing and food controls have finished, says Bury Co-operative Society. In its half-yearly report the Society says: "The end of rationing price controls on meat and groceries is resulting in keen competition for trade."

From the Evening News, October 13, 1979: LABOUR MPS have attacked Mrs Thatcher's speech at the Conservative party conference in Blackpool. Mr Dennis Canavan, MP for Stirlingshire West, described the Prime Minister's reception as like a "Nuremburg rally." He said: "At home she is hell-bent on confrontation with the unions and abroad she seems to be squaring up for a war with Russia. The woman is not living in the real world."

A £6,000 mobile classroom is being erected at Firwood Special School, Bolton - thanks to the efforts of parents and teachers who have raised the cash over the last four years. The specially-equipped classroom will accommodate about a dozen pupils, aged between 14 and 16, in a special leavers' unit. It will be fully equipped with woodwork, craft and recreation facilities.

From the Evening News, October 13, 1994: TEENAGE girls in the care of Bolton's Social Services have earned money from prostitution - with young boys acting as their pimps, the BEN can reveal today. In a secret report, leaked to the Evenings News, three girls - all resident at the Poplars Children's Home earlier this year - are described as "active" prostitutes in Bolton's red light area. The girls, all now 16, were regularly selling their services to men in the Shiffnall Street area as teenage boys from the same home acted as their look-outs and "minders."

BOLTON ranks as the 48th worst borough in the country for its levels of deprivation. All local authorities are judged for factors including unemployment, crowded housing, children in low earning households, no car, poor health, derelict land and poor educational standards. Nine Bolton wards were below the national average - Central, Burnden, Halliwell, Derby, Farnworth, Breightmet, Tonge, Daubhill and Harper Green.