Old News 1924

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January 1924 - A Murder, Essay Competition and Opening of Sewage Disposal Works.

February 1924 - Licensing Laws, Washing embroidery, William Mussellwhite, Doan's Pills, Railway Subsidence and Old People's Dinner.

March 1924 - Daddy's Happy Circle, Events at the New Town Hall, Hints & Recipes for the Housewife, Mr John Carroll - under-manager Newfield Colliery, Eugene(Jean) Webb - Spennymoor Child Run Over by Motor Bus.

April 1924 - Horti-Plow / Todd Hills Poultry Farm / Moor Farm Estate, Hints & Recipes for the Housewife and Under-gardener advertisement at Whitworth Hall

May 1924 - Letters to Daddy's Children's Club, Family Dispute, Railway Hotel Fine, Spennymoor United’s Difficulties, and Delivery of Saturday Newspapers

June 1924 - Flood, Recipes, Spennymoor United, Gala, Wedding, Road Improvements, Housemaid, Labour Women, School attendance.

July 1924 - Hands and Feet, Spennymoor Official Honoured, Recipes, Conservative Union, Successful University Students, Health Report, Children's Club, Window Cleaner.

August 1924 - Wedding Delayed, Skid Causes Injuries, Tragic Children's Deaths, The Road Trip, Labour MP on Court Dress, Wonder Dog, Polluted River, Putter Killed, Death of Mr John Naisbitt, Children's Circle, Scalded Child, Flower & Veg Show.

September 1924 - Harold Stroud accident, Fire, Kid of Arizona, A Railway Scare, Letters to Daddy, Shot-Firing Accident, Horse Racing, Benefit Shoes, Frederick Badcock, Ferryhill Milk Case, Perrott Marriage, Picnic at Croxdale Hall, John Henry Bacon Forster, Road Surveys.

October 1924 - Jack Hogg at Wesley Guild, Miners Out of Work, Superior maid, Unionist Assoc, Orphanage Cup, PMs Tour, Petrol Blaze, Rowdy Behaviour, Gecophone, S. African Football, Earwigs, Election.

November 1924 - Talking Machine News, Tudhoe Catholic Orphanage Competition, The Right Flag Chosen, Fancy Dress In Flames, Spennymoor Schoolmaster Askew Retiring, Willington, Oakenshaw, and Page Bank Memorial, The Writing on the Car, Free Silk Scarves, Gilbert and Sullivan Operas, Remarkable Recovery of a Watch, North-Eastern League, Butterscotch.

December 1924 - HINDHAUGH’S Great Baking Competition, Collision at Cross Roads, Spennymoor Aged People’s Treat Fund, To Sweeten Rancid Butter, Rev. G R. Cook, Byers Green Man found Dead at His Work, Henry Elliott Smith, Coal Trade Difficulties, Killed at End of Day’s Work, Apple Sponge Pudding, Ghost Dogs, North’s Care for Mine Veterans, Spennymoor Blaze.