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Volume 1, Number 30

The price of houses on Victoria Place in 1874, leaving a wagon unattended at the Handpost Inn, stealing seven coats. Florodora at the Lyceum Theatre and a man dies during a funeral procession on Stow Hill.

The Great Van Amburgh Menagerie

In September 1842, an American animal trainer arrived in Newport as part of his Welsh tour. He displayed an elephant, Bengal tiger, lion and several leopards in a field off Caerleon Road near Clarence Place.

Volume 1, Number 29

Lliswerry House for sale, a need for lighting on the Marshes Road, the Newport Queen of Trumps, a fatal accident near Maindee, man changed with cleaning a horse on the highway, Mr Love the ventriloquist and a fire at Duckpool Farm.

Volume 1, Number 28

A dreadful hailstorm in Caerleon, the Carpenter's Arms for sale in 1835, potato stealing, a 'fat, brazen, Amazonian lady', mud on the streets and did the town centre used to have a Fives Court?

Volume 1, Number 27

The Ethiopian Melodists, stealing a spoon, a house for sale near the Court-y-Bella Machine, fighting in Pill and a trotting match between Newport and Cardiff.

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