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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 02, 1737
Page
2
Notice to all master shoemakers and others not to aid Richard Worgan apprentice who absented from John Turner shoemaker in Monmouth. Richard Worgan, about 18, with curled hair and smallpox marks, must return to his master forthwith for kind treatment.
An anatomy display offered at the White Lion within Temple Bar near Temple Gate. The figure shows a pregnant woman opened to reveal blood circulation through glass vessels and the heart and lungs. Viewing hours run from ten in the morning to seven at night until Thursday next. A short treatise on the circulation is available for sixpence.
A late eighteenth century prospectus by Richard Hayes touts Lately publish’d as a second edition with corrected interest tables for 3 to 12 months and daily rates, plus a concise payroll table, a gold and silver exchange comparison between Amsterdam and London, plus related works on stocks bonds life-place valuations and ship and supercargo accounting. It advertises diverse arithmetic and mercantile manuals with practical methods for casting up interest and monetary computations.
The article recounts numerous trials at the Sessions House including John Smith and Joseph Wight for robbery and assault, Richard Sampson and Charles Rogers for various crimes, and cases of forgery, theft, and bigamy. It notes sentences of death and promises clearer future reporting of sessions.
An old sale catalog offers a small but curious collection of Greek Latin Italian French Spanish and English titles. Books bound Morocco gilt and marbled leaves include Horace and Ovid Metamorphosis with engravings and copper plates. The listing promises fair prices and continued daily sale by E Harrison deceased, with thousands of volumes across languages.
A brief note discusses two essays titled Divine Retitude and A Second Letter to VI The Law of Truth. The text frames these as explorations of moral philosophy and epistemology without narrative detail. Names and specific publications are not provided in the readable fragment.
An ornate trade listing offers two sheet maps of the world and Europe with many regions, a three sheet world map, and a large London map with a silver shop display. It notes prices in shillings, free seventh maps with six bought, and praises paper, color, and accuracy. Also advertised is a London shop at Lidgate Street corner Le Pauls with spectacles telescopes and jewelry wares and a proposer of maps and globes.
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