Volume 1, Number 38
The Red and Blue House pubs, a 'Fine Fat Ox', annoying Mr Well, stealing a barber's pole, a subway between Cardiff and Mendalgief Roads, stealing turnip tops and an early tip near Mendalgief Road?
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Volume 1, Number 37
Offensive smells in Baneswell, improvements to roads in 1851, the Steam Packet bell, throwing snow balls in Llanarth Street, stealing a rabbit from the Coldra estate and trespassing at Brynhyfryd.
Volume 1, Number 36
Woodin's Olio of Oddities, a 1742 storm damages the sea wall, the Bachelors of Newport, sneaking in tobacco from the continent, houses for sale in 1840 and the speed of the omnibus on Stow Hill.
Volume 1, Number 35
Bay windows, drunk man disturbs church congregation, a pestilential nuisance, disturbing the highway with a pig trough, a 'celebrated wall' on Bridge Street and the proposed widening of High Street.
Volume 1, Number 34
The opening of Brynglas House, public urinals in 1854, rogues at the fair, a 'black polar bear' for the People's Park, a fire eater visits Newport and 18th century mentions of Malpas.
Volume 1, Number 33
The urinals of Newport in 1868, a midnight brawl in Maindee, the opening of the Victoria Assembly Rooms, a trotting match, Newport's gas lights in 1825 and being taken home in a wheelbarrow.