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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 10, 1773
Page
4
The piece argues that the rising price of corn harms common households more than costly public works, urging government to secure four to five months of corn supply. It critiques paving as wasteful while praising a plan to ease bread costs, and reviews a theatrical piece about sailors, with praise for songs and character portrayals.
General Evening Poser recounts a tale where a neighbourhood gentleman asks the parish overseer what to pay a female servant in childbed. The overseer replies eighteen pence a week, arguing a parish nurse would fail to keep the infant alive. The storyteller notes his belief in the accuracy of the account.
A critical notice discusses the comic sketch A Trip to Portsmouth by George Alexander Stevens at Mr Foote's Theatre. Characters include Sir Flimsy Nervous, a sea lieutenant, Sneet the politician, Tom Bowling, and rural portraits. The piece is praised for satire and lively scenes rather than a strict plot, with strong stage effects and memorable tableaux.
London reports a ball at Kew for nobility on the Prince of Wales birthday while a levee at St James's notes no council. News items include a Warsaw report on Turkish-Russian moves, a Paris beau monde incident, ship cargo updates, local robberies and fires, and various marriages and public notices.
A fragment notes that the night edition arrived late for certain items yet confirms every item has a place in the extended edition. The line suggests delays but reassures that nothing is dropped from eventual publication.
A garbled OCR note from a London market page shows stock prices and bond references with times and percentages. It lists Bank stock, India bonds, South Sea ditto, and various conflated figures with unclear dates and yields, mentioning Reductions, Conf. and Navy bills in a chaotic string of figures and abbreviations.
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