MANCHESTER United players were staying at a hotel in Droitwich, taking advantage of the waters as part of their preparations for their important forthcoming English FA Cup tie with Aston Villa.
THE Messenger carried an advertisement aimed at encouraging working men to emigrate to Canada. Deposits for spring sailings, third class, were just £1. Farmers, agricultural labourers and railwaymen were especially wanted. By coincidence, the paper published a letter from former Bromsgrove resident W Jones writing from Elkhorn in Manitoba. He said he had no regrets about emigrating four years ago. He was now married, owned a 320-acre farm and employed two men. Mr Jones was a former Bromsgrove Rugby Club player.
A FLU epidemic was raging in Bromsgrove, but it had not yet got a hold as it had in Birmingham, where it was said doctors were being run off their feet.' The present local outbreak was not as serious at the one 16 years ago when 50 people in the town had died. Other major outbreaks of the illness were in the 1820s and 1860s.
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