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Volume 2, Number 4

Schools in 1850s Newport, the cost of burials in 1848, burglary at a clergyman's house, refusing to take a child from the workhouse and a month in prison for being drunk.

Volume 2, Number 3

Special constable summoned for assault, fire at W.A. Baker, street preaching, salmon caught in the canal and ham stealing in Pill.

Volume 2, Number 2

The first omnibus route in Newport, till robbing, the notorious Rendezvous pub, the blind sail around Newport, police accommodation in Pill and poor drainage in Ruperra Street.

Volume 2, Number 1

Professor Crocker's Performing Horses, the January Sales, Fires, a trotting match, drunkenness stats of 1889 and complaining about the road to the Pill Barracks.

Volume 1, Number 53

John Davies the Lame Chicken, emigrants on missing Newport, stealing cabbages, turnips, sheep and a wine glass and complaining about the police in Pill.

Volume 1, Number 52

The election riots of 1852, a magnificent panorama, the orange peel nuisance, damages to pubs during election, beautifying Pill, Mr Bryan's lamp, an early mention of Jeddo Street and the Public Clock.

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