Remarkable Cure Report For SPILSBURY ANTISCOR Drops
A Leeds bookseller forwards a testimonial from Thomas Wood describing 32 months of severe rheumatic pain and scurvy, relieved only after using SPILSBURY ANTISCORBUTIC DROPS. The letter promotes the patent medicine, noting its sale by Botws and various Soho vendors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spilsbury
J. Holmes
Haly
Omercy
Sehonias Woods
Nef
Thomas Jor
Ae Ag
Soho Square
Gepayal
Soho Ae
ECM
Trial of Mrs Reed for alleged poisoning at Gloucester Assizes
The trial opens with Mrs Mary Reed charged with being involved in poisoning her husband Mr Watram Reed at Poole. Witnesses describe a secret plot with her brother Watkins and Mr Edgar, including plans to push Mr Reed overboard and attribute his death to accident. A letter shown in court evidences the closeness between Mrs Reed and Edgar as the case proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Reed
Gloucester Assizes
Watram So ‘Reep
Niet Egy Becasa
John Hussand
Richard ‘Evans
Reed
Mary
Watkins
Pembrdge
Herefordshire
Robert Edgar
Edgar
Mr. Reed
Molly
Foot
Young West
Poole
John Aldridge
Royal Exchange Anlliance
Townshend
Tris Bupal
Inquest Over Mr Reed Ends in Not Guilty Verdict
Fragmented testimony from an inquest at Swanley outlines Mrs Reed and Edgar’s alleged improprieties with Mr Reed, leading to a poisoning theory. Statements describe a violent death, a postmortem ruling of nonviolent blows, and a coroner’s report with a letter found at the post office. The jury acquits Mary Reed of all charges after a 17 hour trial.
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Mr. Reed
Mr. R
Dame Trotman
Dame Denly
Watkins
James Watkins
Swanley
Lewis
Joyner
Gloucester
Aprica
Mal
God
Market Prices and Wheat Decline at Salisbury and Devizes
Sizable wheat quantities reported at Salisbury and Warminster markets with prices from 39s to 40s per quarter and occasional bids to 41s. Barley and oats show mixed quotes. wheat at Devizes Thursday indicated around 16s per bushel equivalent. Overall, price falls of about 8s per fack from last week observed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Devizes
Warminster
Lavrel prize taken by privateer and fires devastate Kent area
Five English prizes carried into lavrel by privateer La Vvengeance under Captain Le Veille named Friendship with rum sugar coffee Good Intent with iron tin a brig with lard biscuits Money with beef and lard Carter with feed. A fire at four o clock consumed a mahogany merchant in Vicker's Yard Kent Street, and five o'clock fires destroyed Mercers corn mills at Uxbridge. A boy died after falling into a hot copper at a dye-house in Everton and a murder inquiry followed. A local report denied pickpocket depredations in Cockspur Street Strand and a woman was found murdered near Hountlow with marks of violence.
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Lavrel
la Vvengeance
le Veille
Carter
Vicker’s Yard
Kent-strees
Mesirs
Mercers
Uxbridge
John Bennett
Eve-rlands
Amason
Mr. Lamason
New Bridge
Exeter
Onc
Cockpur-street
Pall-mail
Hountlow
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Betty Swanley
Berkley
Tam
Lord
Lord Hope
London
Maron
Mr. Pir
Edinburgh
Araizy
Bank of Scotland
Patrick Miller
Dalswinton
Goverors
Edinbard
Leith
Repu Gbvérdag
Wiliam, Greenfield
Robert Hamilton
Regius
Allan Maconochie
Eta
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