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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 19, 1737
Page
2
The Court of Directors of the South Sea Company announce a public sale at their Threadneedle Street house on Wednesday the 13th of July next at nine in the forenoon. They will expose 1027 casks and serons of Caracca Cocoa Nuts, plus any other Cocoa Nuts arriving before the 25th of June next.
A benefit performance at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane for General Nugut t's daughter, featuring The Recruiting Officer by Farquhar with cast including Quin Mills Gibber Harper Macklin and more, plus a ballad opera Devil to Pay and The Wives Metamorphos’d. Tickets sold at George Street and Duke's Court. start time 0 o'clock. April tickets honored May 26.
A sale notice from Birchin Lane announces items for sale tomorrow at Five o clock in the afternoon. Jamaica Coffee and Turkey Coffee are listed with prices and bales. Goat's Hair will be seen from this morning until sale at Cox's Warehouse Billicer Lane. Catalogues available at the Marine Coffee House and John’s Coffee House with John Barnes as broker.
The proprietor of the Figure of Anatomy by Mr. Chavet announces its relocation from Charing Cross to the Kate White Lion in Temple-Bar near Temple-Gate. It will be viewable daily from ten in the morning to seven at night for one shilling. The exhibit shows a pregnant woman's body opened to reveal blood circulation, heart and lungs, with a copper plate description and small treatise available for sixpence.
A. Peatches appeals to Merchants Owners Captains and Masters of English ships, claiming a long studied new method will preserve vessels from worm damage in seas harbours and havens. He asserts large yearly savings for code owners and offers a reward or obscurity via the Daily Post.
This Day is published and ready for subscribers the first part of Mr Pope’s works in prose comprising an authentic edition of his letters in quarto and folio formats. Available at Meff. Knapton Ludgate Street Gilliver Fleet Street Brindley New Bond Street and Doddley Pall Mall. Quarto edition sold out. large folio may be had for a guinea and small folio for half a guinea.
A published pamphlet advertisement dating price 1s 6d promotes a defence of an enquiry into domestic finances. It includes arguments on national debts civic lists bank contracts funds and extraordinary grants, with a reply to a pamphlet about public funds and a purported copy of the bank contract.
A London broadside advertises cheap, illustrated map sets and room ornaments. It lists two sheet world maps, hemispheres, and regional charts including Europe and Great Britain, plus a large London city map, with a claim of accuracy from surveys. The dealer G. Wittpey offers spectacles and optical glass, jewellery, and curiosities at Ludgate Street corner, St Paul’s.
An 18th century advertisement promotes a medicine claimed to cure nervous disorders, numbness, shaking, and palsy. It touts rapid, easy relief and states the elixir is sold at Mrs. Holt's Cross Keys and Star in Corehill near Stock's Market for 35 shillings and sixpence per bottle with directions.
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