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The celebrated Mrs. Weston, six inches shorter than any woman travelling ... : also the Liliputian Dwarf, thirty years of age, and only thrity-two inches high ...

Just arrived from Bullock's Museum, the greatest novelty in Hull : to be seen, at no. 13 Queen-Street, the only two esquimaux indians, ever brought to this kingdom : mal;e and female, from the frozen regions of the North ...

Living with differences : sexuality, values and the teacher : a course for teachers responsible for PSD, health education and religious studies on personal, religious and moral education in the age of AIDS : 9th-11th June, 1989 / University of Hull Social Values Research Centre.

Henrik Brustad the Norwegian giant : a penny-piece will pass through his finger-ring : stands nearly 8 feet, acknowledged to be the tallest man in the world : to be seen every evening ... / Assembly Rooms, Anlaby-Road, (near Hengler's Circus.).

Milk is food and the best food : but be sure of clean supplies by placing your order with / Riley's Dairies Ltd.

The most astonishing contrast of a female dwarf and male giant.

Keep your hunters in condition by using Henri's horse condition powders... / manufactured by Henri's Patent Cattle Feed Co.

General Tom Thumb : the American man in miniature ... at the Victoria Rooms, Hull, on Friday, Saturday, and Monday October 25, 26, and 28.

Eighth wonder! : with due respect to the nobility, gentry, and the public in general of Hull and its vicinity, they are informed, that the wonderful Miss Beffin, in her way to Edinburgh, intends doing herself the honour of being exhibited for a short time, in a commdious room, no.42, Lowgate ...

Charter House Hospital, Hull: the main facade. Engraving by T. Briggs, 1780.

Russo-Japanese war: the hospital ship Joseph & Sarah Miles arrives in Hull (?) bringing the bodies of British trawlermen injured or killed by Russian warships in the Dogger Bank Incident. Ink drawing by A. Kemp Tebby, 1904.

A pharmacy moves from Leeds to Hull / D.A.H.

[Report 1971] / Medical Officer of Health, Kingston-upon-Hull County Borough.

[Report 1917] / Medical Officer of Health, Kingston-upon-Hull County Borough.

[Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Kingston-upon-Hull County Borough.

[Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Kingston-upon-Hull County Borough.

Charity-Hall, Hull, 3d June, 1799. The following list of the persons who receive weekly allowances out of the poor-rates in Hull, is published by order of the governor and guardians of the poor. ..

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Kingston upon Hull

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Charity-Hall, Hull, 3d June, 1799. The following list of the persons who receive weekly allowances out of the poor-rates in Hull, is published by order of the governor and guardians of the poor. ..

Kingston upon Hull

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Charity-Hall, Hull, 3d June, 1799. The following list of the persons who receive weekly allowances out of the poor-rates in Hull, is published by order of the governor and guardians of the poor. ..

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