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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 24, 1776
Page
4
A fragmentary dialogue portrays a brown coated man in puckskin breeches speaking with a madam and a grazier. The exchange hints at social intrigue and a plan to meet later while referencing kinship and a forthcoming bill and song on the street.
Norton the Surgeon of Golden Square, Piccadilly, promotes his Marchant’s Drops with testimonials from Hester Studd and Henry Ellis. The ad claims cure for leprosy, ulcers, rheumatism, gout, and numerous afflictions, urging cautious purchase at his house, with prices and alarming notes about counterfeit bottles.
Postscript letters from Williamburgh dated Sept 4 report English clergymen deprived of livings by Congress measures, a Dutch warship wreck off Virginia, and broad plans to move rebel prisoners to Gibraltar and later East Indies. Also covered are slave uprisings, naval prize captures, imminent war rumors with Portugal, port town fires, storm news, shipments to Gibraltar, and local London notices on public hospitals, crime, weather, and daily trades.
A reader sends verse on charity from St Paul highlighting universal love as essential to virtue. The speaker vows to show that without this grace other virtues fade, and portrays charity as patient, kind, and unwavering through trials, with hope and faith guiding relief to the afflicted.
The record notes high water events at Lencon Bridge with timestamps around 2 and 3 in the morning and afternoon on Monday and Tuesday. Notable entries include 51 minutes after 2, 31 minutes after 3, and 50 minutes after 3 in the morning.
Prices listed for Indian stocks and bonds, bank stock reductions, and various government securities with per cent yields and old new values. Items include consol four and a half per cent, India bonds 852, Navy bills, and Long Ann tickets with scrip.
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