150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (29th NOV. - 5th DEC. 1871)
This week's many stories include a complaint about disgusting betting and drinking exhibitions in Rainford, the high death-rate from measles and smallpox in St Helens, Young Juba the negro comic appears at the Theatre Royal, another serious fire takes place at Newton, the fight at the Junction Hotel in Rainford that the landlord allegedly allowed and the gipsy fortune tellers who were not able to locate their own horses.