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Volume 1, Number 25

Throwing stones at a train, stealing apples in Malpas, a deaf and dumb tippler, cabbies puffing and spitting at the High Street cab stand and installing a gas lamp near the George, Maindee.

Volume 1, Number 24

A poem about Malpas Court, bathing in the canal, Saint Brides Great House, the May Pole pub and stealing a cask of beer.

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.

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.

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