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Volume 1, Number 23

Woman trips in Blewitt Street, a cow gives birth to triplets in Malpas, keeping a game cock in Pill, early photography in Newport, runaway wife and otter hunting on Malpas Brook.

Newport High School for Girls

The Newport High School for Girls opened on 21st September 1880 on Stow Hill and had the backing of some very well known Newport citizens. A large amount of information about the pupil's achievements was published by the Monmouthshire Merlin which is published in this article.

Volume 1, Number 22

A modern ballad monger, cock-fighting accusation in Baneswell, Tygwinbach Lane being impassable by man or beast, work on the South Wales Railway and Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay at The Empire.

Volume 1, Number 21

Unwelcome visitors at a farm in the Gaer, a court tries to decide on whether bread is 'fancy', one of the worse houses of ill-fame, farms for sale in Maindee, vandals cut trees on Cardiff Road and stealing a ladder.

Volume 1, Number 20

Renaming Marshes Road, a snub-nosed, thick-lipped white-negro sort of girl,Lockhart's Elephants at the Empire, ruffians commence a Cherokee War and an argument over red apples.

Renewal of Licenses

Taken from the Monmouthshire Merlin in 1843, a description of publicans renewing their licenses at the Newport Town Hall.

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