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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 29, 1779
Page
1
A broad display of shaving kits, leather pouches, razors, strops, combs, and denture sets for travel or sea voyages. Includes tortoiseshell, ivory, horn combs, ladies dressing cases, and a full teeth instrument set in skin cases. Also offers pocket tools, memorandum books, smelling bottles, and perfumery goods at No. 38 Strand.
Advertises Irwin's Fruit Lozenges and Black Currant Drops as cure-alls for colds coughs and throat complaints. Claims royal patronage and endorsements from London physicians and nobility. Lists sale at Berkeley Square and Cornhill with two shillings per box and includes Stomachs Peppermint Ginger and Lavender Drops.
Copy warns against counterfeit lozenges sold by others. It confirms genuine lozenges prepared by T Greenough at No 10 Ludgate Hill London. Package claims cure for coughs hoarsenesses sore throats asthma and shortness of breath. Counterfeit trials in court cited with damages.
An 18th century notice invites nobles and gentry to view or buy pleasure boats of various sizes and plans, including new and repaired vessels. It also lists fashionable yachting ships, a barge formerly with the City Companies, and a privateer suitable pinnace. An apprentice job is advertised. Also advertised is Venetian Bloom Water for skin care, sold by multiple London merchants with claimed beauty benefits and non-paint clarity.
Report covers British naval actions near New York and Martinique, privateers and convoys, ship captures and ransoms, and a fire at St Sauveur. Also notes personnel changes, court inquiries aboard HMS Formidable, and damages to masts after action. Mentions ships like the Merma transport, Formidable, and privateers from Bristol and Jersey.
Sixteenth Day extracts recount Palliser and Pye debating the Arethusa signal paper by William Cuffey prisoner in France. Observations on Formidable rigging imply heavy damage. timeline places departure from Keppel to Harland and return before five. Formidable still damaged at seven with sails and rigging.
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