25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, August 30, 1971

A MAUSOLEUM where the dead will lie in bed-like coffins, known as reposes, is being built in Nashville, Tennessee. The 20-storey structure is expected to take 10 years to complete, and will hold 65,000 bodies. A second, less luxurious, building on an adjoining site will have facilities for 63,500 more. The structures, said the developer, are an answer to the high cost of dying. His funerals, he said, would cost less than $400. 50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, August 29, 1946

IN the six months beginning September 1st, registered manufacturers of corsets will be permitted to supply more non-utility corsets and brassieres than they have been allowed to supply in the previous six months, the Board of Trade announces.

WITH beer in such short supply, a complaint made by a reader of the conduct of youths who go to make up the "Daubhill Parade" has particular interest. He says that they buy bottled beer - or draught beer - which they put into bottles themselves, and then they have little orgies in the side streets off St Helen's-rd. and annoy all the other users of the road. 125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, August 29, 1871

THE annual Wakes commenced at Westhoughton yesterday, and are being continued today. The village was thronged with visitors, the chief object of attraction being the exhibition of a large "cow-head", the traditional coat of arms of the township. The head was supplied by Mr Robert Anderson, of this town, and stuffed and ornamented by Mrs Rigby, confectioner, of Oxford-street. It was exhibited at the house of Mr William Pendlebury, the Wellington Inn, where it was inspected by over a thousand people yesterday, and this evening the dainty dish, which with its trimmings weighs over 50 lbs, will be consumed at the same hostelry. There are the usual stalls and amusements in various localities of the township.

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