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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 07, 1774
Page
4
A letter to the editor recounts a nurse's handling of a smallpox case in a family. The writer argues that delaying vaccination and exposing the infant to infection endangered later generations, including the author’s own kin, and asserts the claim with personal testimony.
Letter to the Geneva Evanine Post urges Assembly to require weigh houses on all or none of a set of turnpike roads when roads converge. It cites Northampton to Leicester routes via Market Harborough and Welford, noting a weighing engine appeared on the former causing seven stage wagons to vanish from the Harborough road and predicting more will follow. The writer warns of weight abuse by carriers and calls for coordinated weighhouse installation.
A June session details heated debate over Lords engrossed bill for governing Quebec North America. Lords North and others clash on clause timings and governance details. Attacks on candour and conscience follow as amendments battle over legislative size and oath provisions. The scene shifts to ancillary notices on elections and trade, with reports from Gibraltar and Chatham context.
A damaged OCR fragment describes a violent domestic scene involving Peter Smithson. The text notes a main beam shattered, buckles melted on a daughter’s feet, and a defenseless person struck on the floor. Details are incomplete and unverified.
Lottery tickets are sold across Mustum Spring-gardens Shoe-lane Fleet-street and by jewellers and shopkeepers. Each ticket includes a copper plate print of the Perpetual Motion and a model of ear-rings valued at five thousand pounds if relinquished. Prizes range from small copper to high prizes up to three thousand pounds, with two equal tickets eligible for a cash prize at the Bank of England within three months after drawing. The exhibit runs by candle-light until June 11 with exhibitions at Erevan mornings and afternoons, and lists of prizes available gratis at offices.
London Bridge times show a dash of daily readings for To-morrow with 58 minutes after 2 in the morning and 14 minutes after 2 in the afternoon. Saturday lists 28 minutes after 3 in the morning and 42 minutes after 3 in the afternoon.
A scrambled stock list shows Bank Stock prices around 7 percent, 1761 and 1543 percent for India ditto, South Sea annuities with reduced bank annuities, 4 percent for New Bank Annuities, Consol and India bonds quoted, Navy bills, and lottery tickets noted with small fractional prices. The fragmentary OCR reflects 18th century market terms and fluctuating notes.
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