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Entries for 1880

There is material for March, June, August, September, October, November 1880:

21 March 1880: The surgeon Thomas Pridgin Teale tells Leeds fathers to get involved in their children’s early years
30 June 1880: Tom Palliser, a Kilvington drunk, denies to a York court that a half crown received from Col. Dawnay, Conservative candidate for Thirsk, was an electoral bribe
21 August 1880: Johnnie W. recounts a wildflower expedition in the children’s column of the Leeds Mercury
18 September 1880: An elderly reader of the Leeds Mercury recounts in its children’s column a pre-1839 alternative to flogging in a one-room school
25 September 1880: Thomas Harper reveals to the Leeds Mercury’s young readers a mnemonic song of monarchs (except Oliver) used in the village school at Weldrake (York) in the 1770s
2 October 1880: The Leeds Mercury reproduces a typographical intemperance tree from the 1840s origins of the Band of Hope
29 November 1880: A Sheffield inquest deals less with the death of James Brady than with the storage of his corpse