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- 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 Clifford Allbutt (Leeds Infirmary) on the commendable beastliness of northerners
- 13 August 1877: For want of a bathroom, T. Clifford Allbutt almost loses a feverish patient
- 14 September 1868: Clifford Allbutt welcomes George Eliot to his house and new hospital in Leeds
- 17 October 1887: John Hughlings Jackson, late of York, uses recollections of the minster to illustrate the double mental vision displayed by punsters
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