Daniel Aitken died aged 120 – Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, 1 May 1847: A man named Daniel Aitken lately died in Wexford, Canada, at the age of 120 years; during his life had contracted seven marriages, and he has left five hundred and seventy...
Speaking of silly – Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, 11 March 1848: At the Lancaster assizes, on Monday, a witness was called to verify the signature to a deposition. Being rather tardy in entering the witness-box, Mr Baron Alderson inquired the cause...
Sailor boy, sailor girl – North Devon Journal, 22 July 1841: A female sailor. – A considerable degree of excitement was caused last week in the town of Brixham, by the discovery of a female sailor, on board one of trawl boats, in which capacity...
Serious raid by a bullock – Carlisle Patriot, 19 April 1867: The spirit of mischief seems to have taken possession of the bovine race, as never a market day now passes without an adventure in the streets of Dumfries more or less exciting and dangerous...
Dream of a Spelling Bee – Leicester Chronicle, 22 January 1876: Unknown (1876) Menageries where sleuth-hounds caracole, Where jaguar phalanx and phlegmatic gnu Fright ptarmigan and kestrels, cheek by jowl With peewit and precocious cockatoo. Gaunt...
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