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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 09, 1737
Page
2
Tonight at Drury Lane theatre The Beccar's Opera and The Fall of Phaeton perform. Covent Garden presents The Fain Quaker of Death as high tide comes to London Bridge at noon.
A dense snippet lists prices for South Sea stocks and annuities, Bank shares, Indian securities, Royal Exchange Assurance, African copper, London bonds, Exchequer orders, and government loans. The note references premiums, three and five percent rates, and lottery tickets with varied stamp duties. Entities include South Sea Stock, South Sea Annuities, Bank, Bank Circulation, Royal Exchange Assurance, Exchequer Orders, Emperor's Loan, and Stamp’d Lottery Tickets.
Notice to members of the Hand-in-Hand Fire-Office society to meet at Angel-Court on Snow-hill tomorrow the 6th at 3 PM. Election of Directors for the ensuing year to be balloted at the same place today the 6th from 9 AM to noon and 3 PM to 6 PM.
Mr Thomas-Hincarrie Mercer advertises at the Great Wheat Sheaf that he is selling off stock cheap. The sale includes rich gold and silver brocades waistcoats velvets silks damasks sateens Genoa red damasks and flowered velvets in three colors for ladies at 32s per yard and foreign velvets in final colors from 125s to 20s per yard.
A historical catalog notes a quarto edition featuring a large map of Europe and Asia, cuts of Asiatick antiquities, and a vast glossary of Tartarian nations. It highlights a new polyglot table of dialects and a vocabulary for Kalmuck and Mungilian tongues, translated from German by John von Strahlenberg’s capture-era manuscript.
A fragmented ad notes a trial period of one month for chimneys or sus forms with indemnity terms. It lists multiple London venues such as Lloyds Coffee-house Lom bard-street Tom's Cornhill Benner's New Houd trees George's Upper End of the Baymarker St James's Brownjohn's Ormond-street Temple-Bar as places to hear the matter.
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