25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, February 5, 1972

A NEW breed of super-louse could be one reason for the increasing number of Lancashire schoolchildren found to be verminous. During the year 779,360 examinations were made, and 19,496 children were found to be verminous. That is 4.47 per cent of children on the school roll; two years ago it was 3.45 per cent.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, February 6, 1947

WHAT inconvenience women will endure in the name of beauty! There is now on the market a preparation which enables a woman to give herself a permanent wave, but it involves putting the hair into about 50 curls; no small task; and they have to be left in for a number of hours.

The simplest solution would be to put the curls in first thing in the morning and leave them in for the rest of the day, but one Bolton woman found this impracticable as she is out all day. So she spent a long time in front of her mirror last night screwing the curls up tight only to find that when she got in bed they hurt her head. So she spent most of the night sitting up with a blanket round her shoulders.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, February 6, 1872

PYROTECHNICAL DISPLAY AT HORWICH

Although some few years back the display of fireworks was no uncommon thing in this village; yet owing to the death of some who took great interest in such displays, and by their own ingenuity made them, a pyrotechnical display might be looked upon as a thing of the past. The display of Saturday evening took place on a gently elevated eminence called Sheep Fields, commanding a good view of the village. Owing to the coldness of the night and the adverse wind which prevailed, the display was somewhat robbed of its interesting characteristics. The rockets, 56 in number, interspersed with Roman candles, 61 in number, reflected the highest credit on the native talent which the maker, Mr Henry Rawlinson, had concentrated, coloured lights, red, white, Bengal, green, mauve, gave a brilliant aspect to the surrounding scenery. The many hundred persons present received a signal that the display was ended by a balloon, with its coloured appendages tipping the clouds in its aerial flight, all having enjoyed heartily the unlooked for amusement.

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