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- 3 June 1917: A mob wrecks and loots Jewish shops and houses in east-central Leeds
- 2 October 1893: Clifford Allbutt, late of Leeds, now a Cambridge professor, explains to Yorkshire College medics why university life is superior to a purely technical education
- 16 February 1886: Clifford Allbutt explains to James Crichton-Browne why three years later he was to trade a lucrative medical consulting career in Leeds for a less well paid Commissionership in Lunacy in London
- 14 December 1926: 11 days after Agatha Christie’s disappearance, her (adulterous) husband and the police find her concealed in plain sight at the Harrogate Hydropathic
- 26 September 1810: Anthony Brown of Bowling (Bradford) is detained for swindling the Otley parents of Wellington’s men
- 17 May 1833: A great storm is bad for Leeds’s horticulturists and good for its glaziers
- 4 April 1825: A Leeds jury shows limited sympathy for Job Robinson, a London fashion designer sacked by Hardwick’s of Briggate
- 26 August 1822: Tragedy interrupts the first day of a great cricket match between 15 Sheffield and 11 Nottingham men in the new ground at Darnall (Sheffield)
- 19 August 1826: The Leeds Mercury responds to requests from readers for cricket reports
- 1 May 1878: The Mercury quotes T. Clifford Allbutt (Leeds Infirmary) on the commendable beastliness of northerners
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