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...
An elopement frustrated – Aberdeen Evening Express, 17 July 1888: A singular scene was (says a correspondent) witnessed in the Citadel Station, Carlisle, yesterday morning, when the police frustrated the elopement of a lady and gentleman from the Lake...
Eccentric woman’s death at Colchester – Essex Standard, 28 January 1899: The circumstances attending the death of Eleanor Neale, a spinster, aged 72, residing in Lucas Road, Colchester, have given rise to a good deal of local gossip. Deceased had lived in...
Right royal mistake – Derby Mercury, 26 October 1786: ANECDOTE of the late KING of PRUSSIA. It is well known, that amongst the numerous Body of Prussian Troops, the King formed one Regiment which he call the “Immortal Corps of tall Grenadiers;” so named,...
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