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At work at seven years of age   
DHRG No. 102563
When Dartmouth Craftsmen Earned A Guinea A Week. First printed : 1937 - Reprinted : 1st October 1965.
Chronicle Articles – No documents.   
DHRG No. 102616
Chronicle and other publications   
DHRG No. 102918
Council scandal ended by a bullet   
DHRG No. 102554
Suicide in November 1906 of Arthur Smith charged with misappropriation of funds amounting to £500. Reprinted : September 1964. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 3.
Five drowned as open boat was speared   
DHRG No. 102555
Attempted to rescue passengers from the German ship Thekla.
First printed : 1893 - Reprinted : September 1964. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 4.
Scandal of the £75.00 vote bribes   
DHRG No. 102556
Story of vote rigging during the election of Dartmouth’s MP 1859.
Reprinted : September 1964. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 6.
Overdrawn and quartered by the bank crash   
DHRG No. 102557
The story of the sudden closure of the Navel Bank on the corner of the Butterwalk.
First printed : 1914 - Reprinted : 1964. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 8.
The Maid affray   
DHRG No. 102558
Shooting of two seamen on board the American ship Western Maid here in the river.
First printed : 1919 - Reprinted : October 1964. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 9.
Dartmouth’s five year holy war.   
DHRG No. 102559
The vicar who fought with pen and bells. The story of Rev. John Priestley Fosters battle with his parishioners and the town Council.
First printed : 1870 - Reprinted : December 1964. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 16.
When Dartmouth bench mutinied.   
DHRG No. 102560
When seven men objected to the local education system being taken over by the county.
First printed : 1905 - Reprinted : December 1964. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 17.
Fighting J.P.s.   
DHRG No. 102561
They black each other’s eyes in the Embankment battle.
First printed : 1887 - Reprinted : December 1964. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 18.
Dartmouth Fire Heroine   
DHRG No. 102562
Maud Ash & Fire in Newcomen Rd Tenement.
First printed : 1912 - Reprinted : 2nd April 1965. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 34.
The big town health probe.   
DHRG No. 102573
The scarlet fever epidemic that swept through the town.
First printed : - Reprinted : 1965. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 35.
The old men of the sea.   
DHRG No. 102574
The fate of the motor yacht Campeador and her elderly crew during WWI.
First printed : 1965. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 47.
Bridge of Sighs.   
DHRG No. 102575
For years there was talk of a bridge over the river dart before it slip through their fingers.
First printed : 1930 - Reprinted : August 1965. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 50.
What a Lovely War   
DHRG No. 102576
Dartmouth at the start of WW I.
Reprinted : 1965. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 52.
Pilot who rammed a mailboat.   
DHRG No. 102577
The ramming of the Warwick Castle by the SS Winston in 1881.
First printed : 1881 - Reprinted : September 1965. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 57.
Danger rock cost them money.   
DHRG No. 102578
When the Triumph struck the Samarang rock to the east of the Homestone buoy.
First printed : 1884 - Reprinted : October 1965. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 60.
Charity without faith.   
DHRG No. 102579
When the Town Council became involved in the charities, water supply and Feoffees. First printed : 1883 - Reprinted : November 1965. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 65.
Battle of the Embankment.   
DHRG No. 102580
The story of the battle.
First printed : 1891 - Reprinted : 1965. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 69.
The colonel who went bust.   
DHRG No. 102581
Alexander Ridgeway the builder of Shepleigh Court and owner of numerous Dartmouth properties.
First printed : 1880's - Reprinted : January 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 71.
It was Roger’s – and out   
DHRG No. 102582
He was Dartmouth’s toughest policemen.
Reprinted : January 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 72.
The rugger row that split the town.   
DHRG No. 102583
First printed : 1903 - Reprinted : February 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 75.
Their protest came with kick.   
DHRG No. 102584
The new ground and the play area protest.
First printed : 1904 - Reprinted : February 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 76.
Town Clerk who hardly was.   
DHRG No. 102585
Harry Roberts and the Town Council.
First printed : 1903/4 - Reprinted : March 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 78.
When elections were rigged.   
DHRG No. 102586
Dartmouth and its MP’s, 1701.
Reprinted : April 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 82.
Coal – lumpers locked out.   
DHRG No. 102587
The coal-lumpers first strike.
First printed : 1914 - Reprinted : August 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 83.
Ship that bowed in shame on a rock   
DHRG No. 102588
The wreck of the English trader on the Checkstone rock.
Reprinted : April 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 85.
The old man of building who had too much talk.
Reprinted : May 1966.   
DHRG No. 102589
When the Borough Engineer and Cllr were accused of corrupt practices.
Reprinted : May 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 88.
Ghost of a great old house   
DHRG No. 102590
The family mansion of the Dimes, in the neighbourhood of Blackawton, destroyed fire.
Reprinted : May 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 89.
The Butterwalk became a slum   
DHRG No. 102591
In danger of collapsing.
Reprinted : May 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 90.
Fists were raised in church.   
DHRG No. 102592
The Anglo Catholic vicar and prayers, Frederick Ryan.
Reprinted : June 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 91.
He did not learn his lesson.   
DHRG No. 102593
Sid Pope and the council’s finances.
Reprinted : June 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 94.
The firemen that fired themselves   
DHRG No. 102594
Who was in charge of the parade?
Reprinted : August 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 99.
The pill pusher of Kingswear.   
DHRG No. 102595
Quack medicines and claims, William Carey Ryder.
Reprinted : August 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 100.
Tied up by the freemen.   
DHRG No. 102596
A revolution in local politics, Holdsworth V Seale for MP.
First printed : 1830 - Reprinted : August 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 101.
Libels out of the church.   
DHRG No. 102597
Rev. Butler v Rev. Foster.
Reprinted : September 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 103.
The captains courageous   
DHRG No. 102598
Captain Jim Curtis and Captain John Tolman.
Reprinted : September 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 107.
Take-over of that failed.   
DHRG No. 102599
When Charles Peak wanted to merge Dartmouth and Kingswear.
Reprinted : October 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 108.
Angry action over an act   
DHRG No. 102600
Dartmouth’s street walkers and the contagious diseases act.
Reprinted : October 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 110.
Shots that shattered a village.   
DHRG No. 102601
The Blackawton shooting tragedy.
Reprinted : November 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 111.
Shamed by yard fight.   
DHRG No. 102602
Ship building and the Philips family.
Reprinted : November 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 114.
Jemmy – burglar of old.   
DHRG No. 102603
Theft from Hawks coal office.
Reprinted : September 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 116.
Inspectors had the measure!   
DHRG No. 102604
When the weights and measures men came to town. Reprinted : January 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 121.
Suicide of glory yacht.   
DHRG No. 102605
The scuttling of the Westward.
Reprinted : February 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 127.
The boy Hero of a river tragedy.   
DHRG No. 102606
Collision and sinking of Frank Alexander’s boat ''Oh My''. First printed : 1945 - Reprinted : March 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 129.
Mount Boone. Ghost came back for daughter.   
DHRG No. 102607
Thomas Boone the ghost of Mount Boone. Reprinted : April 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 134.
The big floating dock that didn’t.   
DHRG No. 102608
The tale of Philips & son floating dock. Reprinted : July 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 140.
Crippled ship brought the town shame.   
DHRG No. 102609
S.S.Sutherland. Reprinted : August 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 143.
Miniature Harrods went crash   
DHRG No. 102610
William Ajax Maygrove, shop owner. Reprinted : August 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 144.
The Holy Joe who asked for jail   
DHRG No. 102611
Rev. Joseph Johnson. Reprinted : September 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 149.
When voters held out their hands.   
DHRG No. 102612
1859 By-election. Reprinted : September 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 150.
Out of the clutches of death.   
DHRG No. 102613
A death on the river near Ditsum. Reprinted : October 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 151.
Case of the kicked out Sergeants.   
DHRG No. 102614
Fred Pound and John Back. Reprinted : October 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 153.
The quick sell out of a family.   
DHRG No. 102615
Lily and Kearney Radford. Reprinted : November 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 155.