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50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, February 17, 1948

THE Germans found another use for coal during the war - to make butter. I saw a sample of this today, writes an Evening News' reporter, at an exhibition by the Ministry of Food of the German food industry.

The ersaltz butter looks like real butter. After flavouring has been added, it tastes like it, and it practically as nutritional. It is made from waste products after motor fuel has been extracted from the coal. The waste matter can also be used from making soap.

Housewives need not be alarmed. There is no prospect that we will get this type of butter. We have neither the coal nor the machinery to make it.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, February 17, 1873

ON Saturday evening, a dreadful accident occurred at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, to a boy named Thomas Wilmot, 13 years old. It is a practice for youths in the rear of the gallery, to make a spring over the heads of any other occupants to get a front seat. Wilmot did this. Jumping too far, he went through the railings in front, and fell from the gallery into the pit. He died a short time afterwards. Although the pit was crowded, no-one sitting there was hurt.

TODAY, at noon, Peter Leyland, a stripper and grinder at Mr Henry Davenport's mill, Radcliffe, was dashed to pieces whilst endeavouring to put a strap on the shafting. One leg was completely torn off. He was a native of Bolton.

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