Volume 1, Number 9
Planting potatoes in town, throwing cardboard, stealing ham, the finest strawberries and an 11-year-old imprisoned and whipped for stealing coal.
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Volume 1, Number 8
The Malpas Mud, stealing a piece of bacon, a new fire engine tested in Pill, an excited teetotaller, 'rounding off' the National Provincial Bank and a circus running out of beer.
Volume 1, Number 7
The Crindau Pigeon Match, a sturgeon caught in the Usk, an automatic stamp machine installed in Maindee, the noisy hot cross bun-boys, and Cambrian Road being built.
Volume 1, Number 6
Vintage W.H. Smith adverts, stealing swedes, the Caerleon Leek, a ball at the King’s Head Inn, two wretched urchins and the 'one of handsomest smacks' ever to have launched in Newport.
Volume 1, Number 5
Lazy people at the Free Library, a muddy Stow Hill, the Wild West Show digging up Shaftesbury Park, Caerleon protesting at busy buses and what’s on at the cinema in wartime.
Volume 1, Number 4
Twelfth Night festivities and horse racing at Tredegar Park, the price of making a phone call and parents being advised to give their criminal son a ‘thrashing’.