English State Lottery begins drawing next month
R Nicholson at his State Lottery Office on Bank Street Cornhill announces selling Trexels and stamped shares for the current lottery. He claims superior advantages, detailing prize structures, shares and tickets drawn or blanks, and indicates government securities can be bought and sold. previous capital prizes are cited.
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R. Nicholson
Bank
Cornhill
Bank of England
Nicnol
NicnoLsoxn
State Lottery Begins Drawing on February Sixth
Public notice from Enkins and Co at No 125 Fleet Street London advertising a state lottery plan. It claims low prices and high prizes, with receipts for shares and rapid payments, promising full value of prizes and a near thirty percent saving. It warns Wenham stock broker offices are unconnected and urges customers to remit good bills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enkins and Co
Fleet Street
London
Lesal
Guireaunda
Sc. &c
Eus
Fleet
Street
Wall
Mi Argray and Co
Ito
Wanted Shopkeeper for Linen Drapery and Grocery Trade
Advertiser seeks a well established shop in linen drapery and grocery lines located in a town or large village at least 25 miles from London. Old couple looking to retire may reply, detailing situation returns and other particulars to RE. W. at the Treasury Coffee-house Whitehall London for immediate response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Advertiser
RE. W
Treasury
Whitehall
Extraordinary Lottery Scheme at Snow Hill London
No. 3 Snow-Hill London promotes the Royal Universal Subscription Bank offering Twelve Numbers for twenty four chances to win English and Irish state prizes. Subscribers pay half a guinea per quarter, with quick delivery of tickets and potential returns up to large capital prizes. plans include multiple ticket bundles and immediate access to receipts and prize funds through a London banker.
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Royal Universal Subscription Bank
Bank of England
Snow-Hill
London
N. B
Ad venture plan promises cent per cent share savings
Mi ARGRAY and Co publish a proposal offering a cent per cent plan with a dovecour of one hundred tickets valued around 1650 pounds. It details share prices, ticket numbers, and quarterly returns, claiming large savings versus standard prices while preserving prize proportions and quarterly payouts.
Anecdotes of Artists Goupy and Zink
Read like 18th century vignettes detailing Goupy’s palace drawing mishap with the young Prince George and the Prince of Wales’s mercy Then Goupy’s poverty after age and a royal gesture of one guinea weekly until his death Also a vignette about Zink praised by physicians then walking through the park and a penniless young mother seeking charity with a tale of her absent soldier husband and child.
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Zink
Germany
Monsieur -Zink
Goopy
Frederick Prince of Wales
Prince George
Prince of Wales
Goupy
Peiod
Kenfinston Road
Constitution Hill
Ireland House of Lords Opens Sessions in Peace Terms
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland opened Parliament with news that the Spain dispute ended amicably and declarations and the Convention would be laid before both houses. He praised commerce, revenue reforms, linen manufacture, and Protestant schools, and pledged cooperation to prosper Ireland. Mr Wolfe moved for an address of thanks to the King, noting Ireland’s peace, growth, and loyalty under thirty years of ruling.
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Jon Earl of
West-Moreland
Ireland
House of Peers
Krne
Spain
House of Commons
House
F. Wolfe
England
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Trentic
Atab
State Lottery
Wenham
Goco
Socl
Recl
Sci
Zii
Jenkins and Co
Blanks
Ts. Wil
Listeenthy &c. Sc
No. IL
House OF Lords
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