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50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, May 4, 1948

EIGHTEEN hundred women meeting in London today had an important question to decide. It was 'Is a woman too old at 70 to serve as an officer of the women's section of the British Legion?', and the question was discussed at the annual conference of the section at the Royal Albert Hall. They very soon gave the answer. Almost unanimously 'No, she is not'. There was loud approval when a woman from Burnley said: 'I come from Lancashire where they are pleading with us old 'uns to go back into the factories when there are plenty of young 'uns who won't go.'

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, May 5, 1873

A SUSPICIOUS death has occurred at Halliwell. Elizabeth Tattersall, aged 48, wife of Richard Tattersall, farmer, of Halliwell, died yesterday morning from injuries stated to have been received at the hands of her husband on the 18th ult. About seven o'clock on the evening of the 18th ult., Tattersall and his wife were both under the influence of drink, and quarrelled in the shippon adjoining the house. The deceased went into the house, and on coming out again was met by her husband, who pushed her down with both hands, causing her head to come into contact with the door lintel. Dr Pickering, of Bolton, was attending a son of the deceased at the time, and two days after she called the doctor's attention to her injuries. She got somewhat better, but a relapse set in, and she became insensible on Monday, April 29th, and remained unconscious until her death. Dr Pickering was treating her for concussion of the brain. The husband of the deceased had, it is said, been in the habit of ill-using his wife, and both have been addicted to drinking. A post mortem will probably take place today.

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