Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, November 22nd, 1917.

On Tuesday afternoon there was a serious dislocation of work owing to a breakdown at the Borough Electricity Works. It appears that some of the transformers in the extra high tension cubicles broke down, and as a result the switch gear in one of the generating cubicles also broke down.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: November 17th, 1917.

At the Corn Exchange on Wednesday evening a meeting, held under the auspices of the Luton and District Trades and Labour Council, was addressed by Miss Margaret Bondfield, of London, Organising Secretary of the Federation of Women Workers. Mr T. H. Knight presided, but the attendance was very poor.

In 1938, as an inevitable World War Two seemed to be looming, old soldiers revealed some of their previously unpublished stories from the 1914-18 conflict.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, November 15th, 1917.

[From The Luton News: Thursday, November 15th, 1917]

[From The Luton News: Thursday, November 15th, 1917]

Digest of stories from The Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: November 10th, 1917.

The 9th of November has come and gone and we have a new Mayor of Luton. The Council Chamber at Luton Town Hall was thronged well before noon to witness the election of Councillor Charles Dillingham, of New Bedford Road, as the town's First Citizen.

Digest of stories from The Luton News:Thursday, November 8th, 1917.

[The Luton Reporter: Tuesday, November 13th, 1917]

• Retiring Mayor John Staddon, a first named target of DS&S resentment in 1917.

Keen resentment is felt by members of the Luton and District Discharge Sailors' and Soldiers' Association concerning what is regarded as the apparent indifference of those in authority locally to their claims to recognition.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: November 3rd, 1917.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, November 1st, 1917.

The liability of perambulators and push cars to carry lights under the Lights on Vehicles Order was drawn attention to by Chief Constable Griffin at Luton Borough Sessions yesterday. He said it had been the custom not only in Luton but pretty well all over the country to ignore the order so far as it related to perambulators and push cars in which children were being wheeled about, because when people had a child in a perambulator they exercised very great care and there was very little danger.

From The Luton Reporter: Wednesday, October 31st, 1917.

Luton Industrial Co-operative Society officially joined forces with the local Trades and Labour Council in a meeting at the Co-operative Hall on Wednesday night to protest against the constitution of the local Food Committee, and the occasion was marked by vigorous retorts to observations made at the Luton Town Council meeting the previous night, and particularly strong criticisms of some members of the Town Council.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: October 27th, 1917.

Red tape, State callousness and Government extravagance in providing "cushy jobs" were among the subjects which provoked the strong criticism of the Luton War Pensions Committee last night.

From The Luton Reporter: Wednesday, October 31st, 1917.

Now that the Luton and District Discharged Sailors' and Soldiers' Association has been registered under the War Charities Act as a war charity, entitled to solicit funds by public appeal, no time has been lost in soliciting for actual sympathy and support for the worthy cause which the Association has at heart.