08 Feb 1840
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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 08, 1840
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR from a London newspaper page includes religious exhortations and trials, with references to vows, pardons, and civic events. It mentions public sermons, executions, and court terms, along with terse notices of deaths and local incidents. The text also lists upcoming Lent affizes and town names with dates.
A late February update notes no ship at Dowss during a wind stalled passage. The entry mentions the St Patrick and Ritz's, with reference to wind conditions delaying sailings and harbor activity.
A fragment lists various thefts including brass items from St Pauls Church and a money cache from Rev Gibbon's house. It notes a watch spared, a theatre show at Drury Lane, South Sea stock prices, bond issues and coin prices. It offers a twenty shillings reward through Jonathan Newton for recovery of silver spoons and mentions further public notices and possessions.
A curious antiquarian item advertises This Day is published offering A Chinese Tale written in Ming era style. It notes a frontispiece from a China Punch Pow illustration and claims translation by a famed missionary. Sponsored by Society of Linguists and printed for J Cooper Fleet Street with a broad appeal to virtuosi.
A brief notice stating the work This Day is published by A Ballad To the Tune of Which Nobody can deny printed for John Cooper in Fleet Street and sold at pamphlet shops.
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