100 years ago

Prince Arthur of Connaught had had an electric cardiogram taken of his heart.

Accompanied by his bride (the Duchess of Fife) he had opened the new National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart, Westmorland Street, London, and the record of his heartbeats had been presented to him before he left the building.

The electric cardiograph, which the prince inspected in his tour of the hospital, was an instrument by which patients’ hearts could be read. Its principle had been devised by Prof AD Waller, one of the consulting physicians to the hospital.

It could be applied without the removal of patients from their beds. By means of an electrical attachment, any bed in the hospital could be connected with the instrument and the record enabled physicians to gauge the movement and condition of the heart.


50 years ago

The rush to the sun was on. Although summer was still a long time away, York people were making up their minds where they would spend their holidays.

York’s travel agencies were being rushed off their feet by customers anxious to fix up holidays abroad, particularly in the Continental sun-spots.

“Hectic isn’t the word,” said Arthur Rosewarne, manager of a travel bureau in York, as he broke off from a busy morning coping with telephone inquiries and personal callers.

“Last week we were 35 per cent up on bookings over the same week the previous year.”

Coach tours had been in such demand that one large firm, which operated some 80 tours in the July 25 to August 8 period, had only one tour left.

Spain and Italy topped the holiday hit parade, so far as York’s foreign travel holidaymakers were concerned. Also hot favourites were Palma and the Costa Brava.


25 years ago

The success story of the Yorkshire Evening Press had been confirmed yet again.

Independently-audited figures showed we had sold an extra 1,016 copies a day over the July to December period compared with the year before... and that meant more than 2,500 new readers.

It was the fourth consecutive rise of more than 1,000 copies, making Yorkshire’s fastest-growing daily a circulation success story that was the envy of newspapers throughout Britain. So once again we said welcome to our new readers.

We worked extremely hard to produce an unrivalled round of local, national and international news, sport and features, plus more than 100 supplements a year. It was hardly surprising that more than a quarter of our readers took no other daily paper.

We currently sold nearly 55,000 copies in seven different editions each night, which meant about 150,000 people read the Evening Press each night.